A festival organiser operating his business in Dubai was kidnapped during his visit to Pakistan. The kidnappers demanded Rs5 million as ransom and threatened the family of murdering him if they reported the matter to the police. However, when his father-in-law, Atiq, approached the police Rawalpindi to register a case, the police refused to cooperate […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Print and electronic media personnel all over Pakistan vowed on Sunday to protect media freedom and to continue their struggle for rights. They marked Sunday as black day and organised peaceful protest rallies in the federal capital and in various cities and towns in the Punjab, Sindh and the NWFP to condemn […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Six cases have been registered against lawyers, opposition activists and journalists in different police stations for allegedly attempting to kidnap MNA Dr Farooq Sattar, violating section 144, and attacking the motorcade of Punjab chief minister, the minister of state for information and the police.” In the first FIR, the police have booked […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalist community took out rallies and observed black day across the country on Sunday to protest the thrashing of their colleagues at the Constitution Avenue by security forces personnel in full glare of local and foreign media. Speakers at these rallies condemned state repression against journalists and lawyers and demanded stern action against […]
KARACHI, Sept 30: Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmad has said that a review petition will be filed in the Supreme Court against the acceptance of President General Pervez Musharraf’s candidature for re-election. Justice Ahmad, who is the presidential candidate of the lawyers’ community, was speaking at the Karachi Press Club on Sunday afternoon. Later, he briefly […]
SWAT, Sept 30: Buildings of two girls schools in the Kabal area of Swat were damaged by a powerful blast on Saturday night. Witnesses told Dawn that militants, who have been targeting women’s educational institutions for a couple of weeks, had planted an explosive device in the Government Girls’ High School, near the Kabal police […]
KASUR, Oct 1: A teenaged girl was strangulated after gang-rape in Lakhankay village in the limits of Sadar police station on Monday. According to FIR, Ashraf, Akram, Papu and their five accomplices stormed into the house of farmer Bashir Ahmed and abducted his daughter Sajida at gunpoint. The accused took the girl to an outhouse […]
(PPF/IFEX) – Over two dozen journalists were injured on 29 September 2007 when police resorted to teargas and a baton-charge against them outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), in an effort to clear the way for state dignitaries. Five journalists are stated to be in serious condition. The journalists were covering the scrutiny of […]
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