QUETTA: Two journalists were arrested on Wednesday and shifted to an unidentified location while others staged noisy protests against the recent curbs on the media and the arrest of fellow journalists. ARY One World bureau chief Abdul Sattar Kakar, and Jamal Tharkai, journalist of ‘Awam’, a Quetta-based Urdu newspaper, were detained by the Frontier Corps […]
KARACHI, Nov 14: Mrs Tahira Abidi, wife of a noted Urdu writer and journalist, the late Hasan Abidi, died here on Wednesday. She will be laid to rest on Thursday after funeral prayers, which will be offered at the Ancholi Imambargah after Zuhar prayers. Mrs Abdi was a sister of Ms Hajira Masrur. Source: Dawn […]
THATTA, Nov 14: Great Tambooro player, Preen Palari, who would enthral audience by his deeply touching play on strings, died here on Wednesday after protracted illness. He leaves behind three sons and two daughters to mourn his death. His mortal remains were laid to rest in Dargah Satyoon near his native village Digar Palari in […]
ISLAMABAD (November 15 2007): The Women Development Ministry will establish five women crisis centres in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and NWFP to be funded by Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra). Sources in the Women Development Ministry told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that 6 kanals of land would be allotted for each centre […]
KARACHI: Pre-admission notices were issued for Nov 16, Friday, by a division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday to the chairman of PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority), the Federal Secretary of Information, the Attorney General of Pakistan and the Advocate General of Sindh for Nov 16 in two identical petitions filed […]
THE government has banned all private TV news channels, including the BBC and CNN. It wants us to see only the official version of the news, commonly known as ‘spin’, on the PTV. The citizens began circumventing the ban by installing satellite dishes but the government did not like that and ordered the police to […]
GENERAL Musharraf’s Government shredded whatever goodwill it had earned for liberalising media policies when it shut down independent news channels, including the foreign ones, who enjoyed a brief comeback for a few hours before having the plug yanked on them again. The continual ban on TV channels has done no one any good, including the […]
Peace evolves through knowledge, which is power. And knowledge when combined with enlightenment leads to wisdom that beholds the balance. It is easier to make a war than to make peace. Teaching peace, compassion and empathy through the force of arms is not the solution of the miseries the people are facing. Honour the will […]
NAWABSHAH, Nov 14: Senior advocate and a member of Nawabshah District Bar Association, Hassan Tariq, was operated upon in Nawabshah Medical College Hospital on Wednesday for fractured ribs and internal injuries he reportedly suffered in lockup at the hands of police. Police arrested the lawyer on Nov 8 from his residence in Essarpura and admitted […]
LARKANA – Police tear-gassed and baton charged the caravan of PPP activists led by the leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly and PPP leader Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Wednesday. Several activists were arrested including MNA Shahid lqbal Memon and several local leaders and workers, MNAS, MPAs and local leaders were dispersed by heavy shelling. According […]
The Sindh High Court Wednesday issued notices to Attorney General, Advocate General Sindh, Interior Ministry and PEMRA on the two constitutional petitions by a private TV channel against the restrictions on private TV channels. Two-member bench comprising Justice Muneeb Ahmed and Justice Abdur Rehman Farooq Pirzadah heard the constitutional petitions filed by the TV channel. […]
SWAT, Nov 14: Security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, mounted severe attacks on Wednesday on positions of militants who are in control of the Shangla district headquarters Alipur. According to sources, 14 people, most of them militants, were killed and 21 others were injured. An Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) press release said the security […]
Karachi:The city government intends to, for the first time in the history of Pakistan, start a ticketing system for an offence causing damage to municipal property through community policing. Official sources, talking to The News, disclosed that tickets had been printed and very soon issuance of tickets will be started empowering personnel under the Sindh […]
KARACHI: The Association of Court Reporters has condemned the harassment of a senior court reporter and threats of arrest to others issued by a senior police officer here on Wednesday. In its meeting, the union heard the ordeal of a reporter who was taken into custody after being identified by an intelligence sleuth roaming around […]
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