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Daily Archives: October 29, 2007

Victim finds all doors to justice closed : Assault on chastity

KHANEWAL, Oct 28: The Kabirwala Tehsil Bar Association vice-president has charged a tehsil court judge with committing professional dishonesty in a case concerning issuance of orders for registration of a case against some accused. In an application sent to the Lahore High Court chief justice, Advocate Rana Shahzad Nadeem Sulehri stated that he had filed […]


Music shop owner torches 10,000 CDs

KOHAT, Oct 28: A music shop owner ‘voluntarily’ set on fire more than 10,000 CDs in the presence of a large number of people here on Sunday after receiving death threats from the local Taliban. Syed Raza said he had received several letters in which he had been warned that his shop would be blown […]


PTCL overcharging the subscribers

KHAIRPUR – A meeting of Telephone Subscribers Association Khairpur was held here on Sunday presided over by its chairman Ghaffar Mahar. The meeting was attended by more than 200 members of the association. The meeting expressed complete dissatisfaction over the performance of PI’CL Khairpur and said that bills of September 2007 were issued to its […]


Couple strangled for ‘honour’

ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: A woman who married against the will of her parents was found strangled along with her husband here on Monday, police said. The incident occurred in a rented flat located at PWD Colony of sector G-9/2, where the couple – Shahzad Allah Dita, 32, and Saima Siddiq, 20, – was living since […]


Fire destroys 14 studios of Radio Pakistan

KARACHI, Oct 28: A huge fire in the century-old Radio Pakistan building on M. A. Jinnah Road gutted all the 14 studios and destroyed equipment and archival material worth millions of rupees, including instruments used since the first day of its broadcast operations. The fire, which broke out at 11.30am in Studio Eight of the […]


Producer, reporter of independent television channel injured in mortar shell in Swat, Pakistan

A producer and a reporter working for “Aaj TV”, an independent television network received shrapnel injuries on October 28 when a rocket landed close to where they were filming the clashes between Pakistan’s security forces and religious militants, near the town of Mingora, Swat in North West Frontier Province. Ten militants were killed and thirty […]