KALAYA: A number of video centres were closed in Dabori area after threats from the so-called Tehrik-e-Taliban on Sunday. Shopkeepers also removed signboards with female portraits after receiving the threats, as a number of leaflets were distributed in the bazaars the other day. Meanwhile, political authorities have arrested 41 tribesmen and impounded their vehicles in […]
On special directives from Federal Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani, employees of national news agency APP have been promoted to next grades. There is also consideration to regularize contract employees. Source: Nawa-i-Waqt/ Inter News Date:7/16/2007
Sources have informed that government has decided to close down illegal FM stations in Sawt. Administration is active for the closure; notice has been issued to clerics, while clerics have refused to close down the stations. Cleric Mulvi Fazal has vowed to show resistance against the decision for closure. He claimed that FM channels were […]
RAWALPINDI, July 15: Most of the mediapersons who spent the nine toughest days of their lives by covering the Lal Masjid siege have been in distress and visibly disturbed especially after winnessing the bullet-riddled walls and roofs of Madressah Hafsa and Lal Masjid. The mosque was stormed by troops on Tuesday to clear what the […]
A woman belonging to Saeedabad registered a case against the residents of her area for beating her up, looting her and setting her house on fire. The police claim that the reason behind this was that she was running a brothel. Nasreen Akhtar a resident of Sector-14 A came to the Saeedabad police station with […]
An employee of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) was shot at and injured by his wife’s lover, after he married the women. A case was registered in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station. Shaukat, son of Feroz Deen said that he is a resident of Zehra Apartments situated in Block-6, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and works at KESC as […]
LAHORE: A man shot dead his maternal aunt and her daughter in Hunjarwal on Sunday after she had remarried outside her caste. The gory incident once again brings to light the mindset which refuses to dump vicious net of caste, creed and honour. The crime history of the provincial metropolis reveals incidents where women fall […]
MULTAN (July 16 2007): A three-year-old girl was raped by a relative in Rahimyar Khan the other day. A resident of Iqbal Nagar informed the ‘A’ division police station of Rahimyar Khan that his relative Nadeem Yaqoob Khokhar, a resident of Chak 148/P, was staying at his home on a short visit. On July 8, […]
KARACHI, July 15: At least 78 per cent of women working in different sectors, including domestic workers, face sexual harassment of one form or another, a report revealed. The report, compiled by Zeenat Hisam, a researcher in labour issues, said that women working in hospitals, banks, offices, factories, brick kilns and private homes (as domestic […]
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