Land ownership controversy erupts after fire Property is worth billions of rupees Karachi:A controversy has erupted over the land ownership after Sunday’s raging fire in the Radio Pakistan building, which gutted 15 studios. The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) is the owner of this land worth billions of rupees and is considering occupancy of this […]
Karachi:Fizza Rizvi, the mother of five-year-old Abbas, has appealed to the Sindh government, provincial ombudsman and the court of law to intervene to save her son as well as herself from the alleged victimisation of her former husband Ghulam Mohammad Nurie. The frightened mother claimed that she had been, once again, attacked by her former […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
RAWALPINDI, Oct 27: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Saturday handed down life imprisonment to a man and acquitted two others in a case of kidnap, rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Fatehjang last year. ATC-2 Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot awarded life imprisonment to convict Mohammad Wajahat for kidnapping Sadia Bibi, a student […]
KARACHI, Oct 27: The investigation officer in the double murder case of the newly-wed couple on Saturday submitted a progress report to the judicial magistrate-12, Central, Abdul Zahoor Chandio, in which he nominated Shaikh Abdul Majeed, father of the late bridegroom Hafiz Shaikh Mohammad Azeem, as the main accused. Azeem Shaikh and his bride Beenish […]
SAHIWAL, Oct 27: As many as 25,000 male and female kiln workers, 11,000 of them less than 16 year old, are working under inhuman conditions at 254 kilns in the district, says a study conducted by a non-governmental organisation. According to the data collected by Insan Dost Association (IDA), 90 per cent of the adult […]
RAWALPINDI, Oct 28: Women should not consider themselves as weaker or inferior but should fight for their rights in the male dominated society with courage and determination. This was stated by Tami Kojima, wife of Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan, while speaking as chief guest at the inaugural session of a ten-day training workshop at Fatima […]
QUETTA, Oct 27: Mir Shafiqur Rehman Mengal, leader of the ruling PML and son of federal state minister Mir Naseer Mengal, has denied that his brother was behind the abduction of a journalist in Khuzdar. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, he said his brother Mir Ataur Rehman Mengal had been named in […]
KARACHI, Oct 11: The FM radio station project of the University of Karachi, a brainchild of the Department of Mass Communication, is not likely to see much progress any time soon, it emerged on Thursday. While the station obtained a licence in 2006, it has not yet gone on air. The Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority […]
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