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Daily Archives: August 25, 2007

Pindi govt gears up for removing billboards

RAWALPINDI, Aug 24: The city district government has finalised arrangements for the removal of towering oversized billboards from city’s important roads in order to ensure safety of public life and property. The district government has announced that it carried out a survey of billboards displayed on main Murree Road and other important roads in the […]


Munir Malik assures Dokri journalists of pleading their case

Hyderabad, July 25 : Supreme Court Bar Association President Munir A. Malik has assured the journalists of Dokri that his bar has formed a panel of lawyers for pleading cases of violence against journalists and the panel would take up the case of journalists of Dokri and file it in Supreme Court of Pakistan. He […]


Japanese film festival begins from 28th

ISLAMABAD: Japan-Pakistan Friendship Fest 2007 begins with the inauguration of Japanese Film Festival on August 28 at a local hotel. Pakistan-Japan Cultural Associations (PCJA) and MEXT Alumni Association of Pakistan (MAAP) present the Film Festival with the support of the Japan’s Embassy. Four films would be screened during the festival each of which makes important […]


Police officials asked to appear before court

HYDERABAD, Aug 24: Ses-sions Judge Hyderabad Zafar Ahmed Sherwani on Friday directed the SP Investigations and Investigating Officer Hussainabad Police to appear in person before the court on Saturday in connection with a three-day old girl’s kidnapping/missing case. Official of Hussainabad Investigation Wing submitted before the court on Friday, daily progress report in the matter […]


Mukhtar Mai to conduct open courts

MUZAFFARGARH, Aug 24: Women’s rights activist Mukhtar Mai is set to launch a movement for raising awareness among women about their rights and conducting open courts all over the country to redress their grievances. Speaking to reporters at her Mirwala Women’s Crisis Centre on Friday, Mukhtar Mai said she would listen to the grievances of […]


Rapist of minor girl sentenced to death

KARACHI, Aug 24: An anti-terrorism court on Friday sentenced Saleem Ahmed alias Babloo, son of Abdur Rasheed, to death in a kidnap, rape and murder case of a minor girl in the Rizvia Society police station limits on Feb 22, 2006. Judge Ghulam Ali Samtio of ATC-1 in his order awarded capital punishment under Section […]


SC takes up jirga verdict on girl

KARACHI, Aug 24: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday observed that Regional Police Officers, Deputy Inspectors General of Police, District Police Officers, Town Police Officers and Investigating Officers working across the province needed to mend their ways, look into public complaints at the earliest, and proceed against the culprits without waiting for summons or […]


Kidnapping, torture of TV reporter slammed

LAHORE: Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned the kidnapping and beating of ARY TV reporter Babar Malik on August 21 by men in plain-clothes using what appeared to be an intelligence agency jeep in Peshawar. In a press statement issued on Friday, the organisation said that Malik’s colleague had told them that before releasing […]


Rs 30 million being utilised to computerise Auqaf record

LAHORE (August 25 2007): Punjab Minister for Zakat Sahibzada Saeed-ul-Hassan on Friday said his department’s Jahez Committee doled out dowry worth up to Rs 150,000 every month to the poor through a transparent mechanism at Data Darbar. Saeed told reporters that his department had given dowry worth up to Rs 50,000 at each zonal level […]


Radio Pakistan celebrates 60 years

Radio Pakistan, Karachi on Thursday night organised a musical programme to celebrate its the 60 years of existence. Station Director Iqbal Azam Fareedi disclosed that recording of the radio station has been fully computerised to meet requirements of the modern era. Source: The News Date:8/25/2007