GUJRANWALA, Sept 29: Bars across Punjab boycotted courts, held meetings and took out rallies on Saturday in a charged atmosphere to condemn President Gen Musharraf’s bid for re-election and police action against lawyers and journalists in Islamabad. In Gujranwala, lawyers gathered in the bar room when they heard reports that their colleagues were being roughed […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: The National Action Committee of lawyers has given a countrywide strike call for Monday to protest police action against lawyers, journalists and members of civil society outside the Election Commission. Supreme Court Bar Association president Munir A Malik told Dawn that the decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the committee. […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Islamabad saw a dreadful day of police wrath on Saturday that marred General Pervez Musharraf’s march towards election for another presidential term. The capital went through one of its worst police violence targeting lawyers and journalists, many of whom were injured and hospitalised, as the president scored his second legal victory in […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Over two dozens journalists covering the events on the day of scrutiny of nomination papers of the presidential candidates were injured when the personnel of law enforcement agencies resorted to teargas and baton-charge on them outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in an effort to clear the way for movements of […]
ISLAMABAD: Authorities on Saturday temporarily suspended the transmission of independent news TV channels to stop the coverage of opposition rallies here on Saturday against the president’s re-election plan, private TV channels and subscribers said. Police fired tear gas shells and beat protesting lawyers and political activists who staged demonstrations in Islamabad to protest against President […]
LAHORE, Sept 29: Known writer and Punjabi Adabi Board Secretary Raja Rasalu died of a cardiac arrest here on Saturday. He was 80. He was admitted to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology with chest pain two days ago where he breathed his last around 2pm on Saturday. His funeral prayers were offered at the Data […]
The biggest gift that Musharraf gave to Pakistan was the forty plus TV channels, which have brought a high level of awareness and these last few months have taught the public more about law and the constitution than the original drafters of the now, born again, re-valued document, which people have sworn to uphold, and […]
KARACHI – Country’s political atmosphere is passing through an astonishing period and people would looking such type of events in the near future they did not see in the past and that was not in their imagination, the decision of Supreme Court in favor of Musharraf’s duel office having legal options but it seems to […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) is disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow General Pervez Musharraf to contest the presidential election as an army chief, says a press release. The SC decision bodes ill for the independence of the judiciary and for the prospects of Pakistan’s return to genuine civilian rule through free […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 28: A widow and her daughter were kidnapped near Qasim Channa village in Kandiaro taluka on Thursday night. Mohammad Bux Bhatti registered an FIR for kidnapping of his brother Ghulam Farooq’s widow Ameera, 45, and her daughter Reshman, 18. He alleged that six people barged into their house on Sept 1 and […]
KHAIRPUR: Tension gripped Khairpur on Friday after the Phulpoto tribesmen kidnapped the sister of a man with whom one of their tribeswoman eloped a few days ago. The News has learnt that Parveen Phulpoto ran away from her house in the Munshi Mohalla with Asadullah Chhajro. After the incident, the Phulpotos had pressurised the Chhajros […]
KARACHI, Sept 28: A man who was being searched for in connection with the assault and rape of a young girl was apprehended late Thursday night by the residents of the area in which she lived, Masoor Colony, Mauripur, and handed over to the area police. A 15-year-old girl, whose name is being withheld for […]
GHALANAI, Sept 28: A woman was beheaded in the village of Nehqai Kandau in the Haleemzai tehsil and her body was dumped by roadside. A note found near the body accused, Hazrat Bibi, 35, of Phatak area in the Bajaur Agency, of having been involved in ‘immoral activities’. “The woman was involved in immoral activities […]
KARACHI Sept 28: A computer vendor having his business on I.I. Chundrigar Road was arrested on Friday allegedly for copying pirated software on new machines. Police also seized 259 illegal CDs and a personal computer with the pirated software installed in it. “A criminal case has been registered against the vendor for violating the Copyright […]
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