1. Scope of the Code: This code of Conduct (hereinafter referred as “the Code”) formulated voluntarily by Pakistan Broadcasters Association (hereinafter referred as “the PBA”) and all electronic media broadcasters who are members of PBA is aimed at self-regulation of electronic media. The Code will become a part of all licenses issued by Pakistan Electronic […]
ISLAMABAD — News blackout in Pakistan after the imposition of emergency puts common people on the forgotten track of listening to radio, particularly foreign Urdu broadcasts to appease their appetite of knowing facts soon after something has happened. Pakistan had a long tradition of listening to radio before the promotion of private TV channels. This […]
HYDERABAD – As many as fifty political activists has been arrested here on Thursday including 40 workers of PPP, 5 of Awami Tehrik and some activists of National Awami Party. Police intruded inside Hyderabad Press Club where journalists were observing token hunger strike within Press Club premises against ban on TV channels and after misbehaving […]
MIRPURKHAS: The Judicial Magistrate Mirpurkhas has remanded in police custody for four days, Akram who has been accused of raping his daughter, here on Thursday. The town investigation police produced Akram Baig in the court under the case of section 376 lodged in the town police station on Wednesday on the complaint of Musamat Jameela, […]
THE crime on the surface is simple. On Tuesday, 35-year-old Gul Noor killed four of her own children, including an infant, attacked her husband with a cleaver and also wounded her two elder daughters. Her ways were cold-blooded: she dropped each child into the underground water tank. When her crazed state subsided, she froze into […]
LAHORE: Forty PTI workers, including three sisters of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman lmran Khan, were rounded up by the police from a peaceful protest demonstration against lmran’s detention at the Barkat Market, after a brutal baton-charge and thrashing by plainclothes security personnel, here on Thursday. Mrs. Rani Hafiz Khan, Uzma Khan and AIeema Khan, sisters […]
LAHORE: Forty PTI workers, including three sisters of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman lmran Khan, were rounded up by the police from a peaceful protest demonstration against lmran’s detention at the Barkat Market, after a brutal baton-charge and thrashing by plainclothes security personnel, here on Thursday. Mrs. Rani Hafiz Khan, Uzma Khan and AIeema Khan, sisters […]
SIALKOT, Nov 15: As many as 5,000 children working in surgical vendors’ workshops in various parts of the district will be imparted education under the `Punjab Chief Minister’s Parha Likha Programme.’ Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool will formally launch the programme in January 2008 under which child labourers will be imparted education for financial stability of […]
TIMERGARA, Nov 15: The Malakand peace jirga has decided to hold multi-party conferences in the region from Nov 21 to mobilise public opinion to mount pressure on the government to resolve the Swat crisis. This was announced during a meeting in Chakdarra on Thursday. The four-hour meeting was called by Senator Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan […]
Musharraf to lift emergency, restore freedoms LONDON: Over one hundred representatives of lawyers’ bodies, human rights groups and journalists descended on the High Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday evening to express their solidarity with the lawyersà community and political parties fighting for the restoration of democracy and the Constitution. The demonstration was called by the […]
* Musharraf consults Soomro on possible cabinet members ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Muhammadmian Soomro will take oath as caretaker prime minister (PM) today (Friday). President General Pervez Musharraf will administer the oath under the interim Constitutional order, which will be followed by oaths from the interim cabinet, which stands at around 12 to 15 people. Soomro, […]
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