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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Couple seek protection against harassment

HYDERABAD: A couple of Pathan Colony of the Matiari district staged a protest demonstration outside the Hyderabad press club on Monday and sought protection and security. Haseena and her husband Akbar Babbar told newsmen that they married three years ago of their free will, but the family of Haseena did not accept the marriage and […]


Journalists demand arrest of killers of journalists

It was condemned that killers of journalists Noor Hakeem and Hayatullah had not been traced. Govt should arrest culprits immediately. TUJ president Shakir ullah said that government had ailed to apprehend culprits. He demanded security for journalists. He demanded that children of deceased journalists should be given help to get education. He asked government to […]


5 members journalists committee to monitor recruitment

Deputy Inspector General Police Dera Ismail Khan Zulfiqar Ahmed Cheema has set up five members committee of journalists from Dera Ismail Khan to monitor the recruitment of police constables. Senior journalists Zia ul Haq Paracha, Abu Moazzam Trabi, Muhammad Yaseen Quershi, Muhammad Aslam and Ramzan Semaib will members of committee. Source: Aaj Tv Date:7/2/2007


Media advertising agencies asked to have a code of ethics

ISLAMABAD, July 2 (APP): Media advertising agencies should sit together and evolve a tangible, acceptable and practical code of ethics to discourage the tide of misleading public ads, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Tariq Azeem Khan said Monday. He was addressing the participants of third Roundtable Conference on Advertising in Pakistan, organised by […]


Pemra stops FM station from broadcasting BBC content

KARACHI, June 30: A local FM radio has stopped hourly news bulletins syndicated by the BBC Pakistan after the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) ordered its management to immediately stop the broadcast of “all sorts of BBC content/programmes”. Pemra in a letter to the FM 103 management said: “You are hereby directed to immediately […]


Journalist dies

LAHORE – Iftikhar Ali Agha, senior reporter of Daily Osaf died on Saturday after illness. He was laid to rest the same evening at Sanda graveyard. The funeral was attended by a large number of journalists, political and religious leaders, friends, and relatives of the deceased. Maulana Amjad Khan of MMA led the funeral prayer. […]


MoU to promote IT trade signed

KARACHII – Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) held a networking session with Mark Ellison, Managing Director, Texas Emerging Technology Fund, Faisal Amin, President Texas Trade Council (TTG) and the US Honorary Investment Consular, said a board statement. “The purpose of the event was to identify opportunities for investments, technical partnerships, international business development and collaborative […]


‘Work on media colony will begin soon’

PESHWAR -NWFP Information Minister Asif lqbal Daudzai has said on Saturday that the provincial government had prioritised the construction of the Durrani Media Colony and work will begin from the next month. The information minister expressed these views while briefing over the government’s progress on the media colony in an informal general body meeting of […]


Police press molested boy to withdraw case

ISLAMABAD – Federal Capital Police instead of providing shelter to a 15-year old boy, victim of molestation is compelling him to withdraw the FIR against the culprits namely Shahid and Ameen, the close relatives of member peace committee of Golra Police Station. Yasir Butt along with his father Naseer Butt visited the office of The […]


Girl kidnapped, married off

MANSEHRA: A teenaged girl was kidnapped and then forcefully married off while the owner of a local poultry farm was axed to death in the Atr Sheesha area here on Saturday. The girl, Jeena, 15, was abducted just before her marriage and was forcefully married to another person. Police registered a case against Afzal and […]


Two women killed over Karo-Kari

SUKKUR: A man shot dead his wife and her sister over Karo-Kari in the Bazigar Pul area in the Rashid Wagan police limits near Larkana on late Friday night. The deceased were identified as Shabnam (22) and Sharifan (29). The father of the women, Mohammad Ismail Shaikh, registered a case against his son-in-law Qalandar Bux […]


Man axes daughter to death

ATTOCK, June 30: A man axed to death his daughter and her alleged paramour in an honour killing incident at Daulatpur village in Fatehjang in the small hours of Friday. Police said Mehmood Afzal, a tenant, was sleeping in his house when he suddenly woke up on hearing some noise. On seeing his daughter with […]