KARACHI (July 19 2007): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has selected Secretary General of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Mazhar Abbas, for the ‘International Press Freedom Award’. A statement issued here on Wednesday said the 17th Annual International Press Freedom Awards (IPFA), would be presented at a dinner ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel […]
LAHORE, July 18: Prominent progressive writer Qamar Yorash died here on Wednesday afternoon. He was 75 and single. Yorash breathed his last during asleep in a room of the Labour Party Pakistan office on Abbot Road, where he had been living for the past several years. He was suffering from kidney enlargement and diabetes. He […]
KARACHI: Senior photojournalist Samuel Benjamin was buried Wednesday. He was 61.He leaves behind two brothers and two sisters. Born in 1946 in Saddar Karachi, he became a photographer in 1965. He worked for news agencies and newspapers. He had been affiliated daily ‘Koshish’ of the Kawish group of publications since 1998. Bejamin was known as […]
THE arrest of a cleric in Mandi Bahauddin on Monday may not bring much joy to the parents of Mazhar Iqbal, the young boy he is charged with torturing, sexually abusing and killing, but it will prove reassuring for other students. This is not the first time a maulana of a madressah has been charged […]
LARKANA, July 18: Two people were killed and a woman suffered injuries in separate incidents in the jurisdictions of Bakrani and Wagan police stations on Wednesday. Akbar Ali Abro, 20, was found dead in fields in the Mian Ishaque Khoharo village in the jurisdiction of Bakrani police station. The boy was collecting food from different […]
LAHORE, July 15-: Punjab Chief Minister, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has constituted a seven member committee of senior journalists of different newspapers and electronic media to monitor and coordinate the matters of Journalist Housing Scheme (JHS) Loi Bher Rawalpindi. Rana Tahir Mehmood, Editor Jang Rawalpindi has been appointed as chairman of the committee. The other members […]
SUKKUR, July 18 : Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim announced provision of Rs. 100,000 as financial asisstance to heirs of local journalist Nisar Solangi and Rs. 50,000 to ailing journalist Ali Gulab Sehto. During his visit to Sitharja, he also announced a grant of Rs100, 000 for the local press club. Source: Pakistan […]
KARACHI (July 19 2007): ‘Transparency International’ (TI), Pakistan, has expressed concern over USAID’s showing over 50 million voters under the new computerised electoral rolls. The Computerised Electoral Rolls System (‘Cers’) is one of $18.9 million project, funded by multiple donors including USAID, and administered by UNDP. TI, Pakistan Chairman Syed Adil Gilani, in a letter […]
MANSEHRA, July 18: The federal government has asked national and international NGOs working in quake-hit districts of the NWFP to limit their field activities and adopt extra security measures in view of the situation in the province, Dawn has learnt. NGOs stopped working in Allai and Battagram following ransacking of their offices. They shifted their […]
Karachi: A demand to provide social security to the domestic workers was made at a meeting organised by Action Aid Pakistan, in collaboration with the Labour Education Foundation (LEF). It was pointed out that majority of the workers in the country are female and that most of them work as domestic workers. However, there is […]
HARIPUR, July 18: A 17-year-old girl in her statement in the court of judicial magistrate on Wednesday accused her maternal uncle and two other people of kidnapping and repeatedly molesting her. Samia Naz, daughter of Mohammad Ibrahim, of Kangra Colony had been recovered on July 14 from a locked house in the Bagra village after […]
JHANG, July 18: Two people were killed for ‘honour’ in separate incidents in Chiniot on Wednesday. Mumtaz strangled his daughter, Irshad Bibi, over the suspicion of her relations with a man in Dhrangar village. In Chak No 11 in the limits of the Saddar police, Gulsher shot dead Asif. Gulsher suspected that Asif had an […]
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