MARDAN, Oct 2: A newly married woman allegedly hanged to death her husband over a domestic dispute in a village on Monday night, officials said. Sources said that Roobi, who is stated to have been forced to marry Sher Haleem of Landay Shah village, allegedly gave her husband some intoxicating drink, which rendered him unconscious. […]
ISLAMABAD: The government, on an order of the Supreme Court, on Monday suspended three top officials of the Islamabad administration in connection with weekend violence against lawyers, journalists and representatives of the civil society on Constitution Avenue in the capital. “As per the court direction, we have suspended Inspector-General of Islamabad Police (IGP) Syed Marwat […]
Karachi:Journalists belonging to the print and electronic media staged a peaceful rally on Monday that started from the Karachi Press Club and ended at the Sindh Governor House. Journalists said that they were all set to face the fight for their rights and anybody who tried to crush the voice of the fourth estate would […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 1: The United States takes seriously any attempt to close down or hinder media organisations, according to the US State Department. A State Department statement said on Monday that it had conveyed its concerns to the government of Pakistan both publicly and privately, urging it to “ensure that the media are free to […]
QUETTA, Oct 1: Balochistan Assembly Deputy Speaker Mohammad Aslam Bhootani has strongly condemned the brutal police action against journalists in Islamabad and termed it a barbarian attack on the media. On his returning from New Delhi on Monday after attending the 53rd Commonwealth Parliamentarian Conference, he said that the way police adopted against journalists and […]
SIALKOT, Oct 1: Cellphone users in Sialkot and Narowal districts are receiving frequent wrong calls, especially during Iftar and Sehr timings, due to faulty network of a cellular company. Several users from all walks of life including traders, industrialists and exporters are facing a huge inconvenience due to the faulty network. Expressing grave concern over […]
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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