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Daily Archives: July 15, 2007

Could it be that we feel that writing for lucre is distasteful

Ejaz Haider Could it be that we feel that writing for lucre is distasteful; that we need to cloak it in holy garbs for it to acquire meaning? Or that vanity is something that we should be ashamed of, damn the fact that it is the engine that drives much of the world? I must […]


Ombudsman office in Dadu

HYDERABAD, July 14: The provincial ombudsman has established its regional office in Dadu with the posting of regional director and staff to extend speedy justice to common people by redressing their grievances against the provincial government departments and offices. The newly posted regional director called upon people to submit their complaints and applications about problems […]


City Council okays pact with Nadra: Computerisation of birth, death, marriage & divorce certificates

KARACHI, July 14: The City Council, which met here on Saturday, adopted a unanimous resolution authorizing City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal to sign an agreement with the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) on a computerized system of birth, death, marriage and divorce record for the city. The system, named the Civil Registration Management System (CRMS), […]


Govt baulks at reopening Daniel Pearl case

KARACHI, July 14: It has been exactly five years since an anti-terrorism court sentenced British-born Shaikh Omar to death and his accomplices to life imprisonment in the US journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case. However, the government seems unprepared to reopen the case even after the 2005 arrest of one of the proclaimed offenders. […]


Woman gets husband arrested

PESHAWAR, July 14: Police have arrested a man on a charge of assaulting a girl at the Fatho Abdurahemia village on the outskirts of Peshawar. Accused Bahadur Khan was produced before judicial magistrate Abdul Hassan Mohmand on Saturday and was remanded in police custody for two days. An FIR was registered against the accused under […]