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Daily Archives: September 6, 2007

All Parties Women Conference on September 7

KARACHI (September 06 2007): An All Parties Women Conference will be held at a local hotel on September 7. The moot will be organised under the auspices of the Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation. According to the organisers, the conference is aimed at ensuring and making effective the participation of women in the country’s […]


Pakistan’s ‘other’ dirtiest profession

Pakistani advertising is like the tell-all village bicycle — everyone from the town idiot to the neighbourhood queer has hopped on and gone for a ride. Such is the predestination of our publicity enticing industry that any real attempt in the opposite direction has the lot cartwheeling towards an embargo on actual creativity. A routine […]


Human Organs Transplantation Ordinance promulgated

ISLAMABAD (September 06 2007): President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday has promulgated Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Ordinance 2007 to prevent unlawful human organs’ trading in the country. Under the ordinance now transplantation of human organs will be done through proper legislation as a regulatory framework has been designed for the first time to […]


Teacher attempts to sodomise minor student

TOBA TEK SINGH: A school teacher has attempted to sodomise an eight years old student of Albarkat Model High School Gojra. According to Gojra city police, accused teacher Qari Asad took away a boy from his hostel room and forcibly tried to commit unnatural offence with him. The boy raised alarm and teacher fled away. […]


Aaj reporter grieved

KARACHI (September 06 2007): Younger brother of Shahab Salman, reporter Aaj TV, died in a traffic accident late Tuesday night as his motorbike was hit by a speedy bus near Quaid-e-Azam International Airport. Abdul Wahab, 25, the younger brother of Shahab, was returning from the airport with his friend Khurram Siraj, when a rashly driven […]


FM discusses blasphemous cartoons with OIC chief

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Wednesday said that the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) should work for the adoption of an additional protocol to an appropriate convention by the United Nations or a separate convention focusing on respect of all religions and faiths. “Only a protocol at the UN level can establish governments’ responsibility […]


No additional holidays, says APNS

KARACHI, Sept 5: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has warned the Akhbar Farosh Union (AFU) of Multan that it will devise a new paper distribution system in the region if the union insists on additional holidays for newspapers. An APNS press release issued here said the AFU had nothing to do with newspaper holidays […]


Journalists protest

BADIN, Sept 5: A large number of journalists of the town and its adjoining areas observed a token hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against kidnapping of their colleagues, Haji Khan Lashari and Amar Singh Rathore, a few days ago. The strikers demanded that the government should ensure safe recovery of the kidnapped journalists. A […]


Aged former film editor slain

ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: The body of a former film editor, whose throat had been slit, was found in his house under mysterious circumstances here on Wednesday, the police said. The deceased was identified as Aga Mansoor Ahmad aged 70. Neighbours and the victim’s tenant, an assistant director in the petroleum ministry, felt strong stench coming […]


No check on obscene internet cafés

ISLAMABAD: Internet cafés and clubs in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad instead of providing knowledge, information and education to the young generation are engaged in promoting obscenity by setting up private porn shows at very nominal rates. Erotic movies can easily be watched at any internet club in Karachi Company (G-9 Markaz) for […]