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Daily Archives: July 9, 2007

Islamabad Press Club sealed

ISLAMABAD – Law enforcement agencies Sunday sealed Islamabad Press Club situated near Melody, close to Lal Masjid. The security officials got the Press Club building vacated from the journalists covering the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa operation. However, ISPR Chief Maj General Arshad Waheed said that security forces had not sealed the Press Club building. […]


DCO Chitral barred journalists to cover Shundor festival

District Coordination Officer barred journalists from covering the Shundor festival. These journalists were sent by Ministry of Tourism for the coverage of the festival. Journalists were not provided accommodation. Journalists protested against misbehavior. DCO rejected the PTDC request to provide accommodation to journalists. PTDC had to arrange residence in emergency. Journalists had asked Minister for […]


Security officials restrict media

State security officials Sunday allegedly misbehaved with journalists and restricted journalists to perform their professional duties without any reasons. They refused to accept cards issued by Press Information Department. Journalists were barred to reach the camp set up for media. Journalists protested against it. Officials gave clearance after confirmation from lists provided by PID. Journalists […]


Media Cell established for Squash Championship

KARACHI, July 08 (PPI): Sindh Rangers has established a Media Cell to facilitate newsmen for the coverage of 1st DG Rangers National Junior Squash Championship (under 19 boys and girls) to be played from 9 July to 14 July at Sindh Rangers Jehangir Khan Sports Complex North Nazimabad. Jehangir Khan, the squash legend, is co-chairman […]


Journalists barred from Lal Masjid

ISLAMABAD: Lal Masjid deputy chief cleric Abdul Rasheed Ghazi invited reporters to a press conference in Lal Masjid on Sunday, but security forces refused entry to journalists and later, ARY Television reported, entered the Rawalpindi-Islamabad press club and harassed the journalists there. Ghazi had invited journalists for a press conference, pledging safe passage, but security […]


Religious extremists burn five music shops for “promoting obscenity, destroying religious values”

Five music shops were burnt on 4 July 2007 in the bazaar of Miramshah, the main town in the restive Pakistan’s Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) that border Afghanistan. Press reports, quoting local residents, said unidentified men set the shops ablaze with petrol. The militants had earlier warned shop owners in the city to stop […]


Couple receives death threats from parents

LAHORE: An 18-year-old girl who eloped with her lover and married him in Multan in May is receiving death treats from her parents. Muhammad Khalid, the husband of Siama Bibi, told The News that he and Saima had married in court on May 5 because the parents of Saima, the residents of Tehsil Kamalia, were […]


Man booked for forcing wife into sodomy

A woman registered a case against her husband for forcibly subjecting her to sodomy and torching her on her refusal to do so. The incident occurred in Chakiwara police limits. Ms Samreen r/o Gulistan Colony stated that she had married Abdul Qadeer r/o Chakiwara in July 1998 and she gave birth to three children during […]