ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The Geo television network said on Friday that it had been ordered to shut down its news channel. The channel beams its signals from Dubai. Late on Friday night, a spokesman for the ARY network called Dawn’s Karachi and Lahore offices, saying that the group had been told to shut down its […]
ISLAMABAD: Geo News, Pakistan’s premier Urdu news channel, also seen round the world as the main source of news and current affairs, was shut down at 1 a.m. Pakistan time (12 midnight Dubai time) after President Pervez Musharraf put tremendous pressure to silence a media outlet which had refused to bow down to his dictates. […]
LAHORE: Romanian Trade Commissioner Ioan Campean has said Romania, being a new member of the European Union, offers a huge potential for Pakistani businessmen in a number of sectors including manufacturing, automotive parts, electrical and electronic goods, wood processing, textiles, construction material, food processing, infrastructure and real estate. He was speaking at a seminar on […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court’s (SHC) official web page went offline again on Friday, leaving hundreds of lawyers unaware of whether or not their cases were fixed before a bench of the SHC. “The website had earlier gone off on November 3. It was then restored on November 15 but went off again a day […]
Irshad Ali, 22, and Nusrat, 20, a newly-married couple became the latest victim of Karo Kari on Thursday, November 8, 2007. The obsolete tradition of rural areas, which is unfortunately still in practice today, has claimed so many lives in the recent past. However, in this case, the couple came to Karachi to save themselves. […]
MIRAMSHAH, Nov 16: At least 200 girls in North Waziristan have been forced to give up their education as security agencies have moved into the building of the only girls’ degree college in Miramshah, the headquarters of the agency. The adjoining girls’ high school and hostel for teachers and girls are also lying vacant due […]
LAHORE, Nov 16: PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto visited rights activist Asma Jahangir’s residence late on Friday night. Both the women were released simultaneously from house arrest a night before. It is believed that Ms Bhutto’s visit is aimed at seeking civil society’s support for the PPP in its anti-Musharraf campaign. Ms Bhutto is also scheduled […]
* HRCP terms police manhandling of PTI women ‘shameful’ * Demands immediate inquiry g WAF slams IJT action against Imran LAHORE: A number of civil society organisations on Friday strongly condemned the violence perpetrated by the state against unarmed citizens, including women, peacefully protesting against the imposition of emergency and the suspension of human rights. […]
GENEVA (November 17 2007): The United Nations’ special investigator on freedom of religion or belief has been released from nearly two weeks of house arrest in Pakistan, a UN spokesman said on Friday. Asma Jahangir, who is also chairwoman of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, had been detained along with other activists since […]
LAHORE: The privatisation process of the country’s airports will start from next year and Faisalabad Airport would be privatised first. Director General Civil Aviation Authority Farooq Rahmatullah addressing a press conference here on Monday said that foreign companies would be allowed to take part in the privatisation process of the airports. Responding to a question, […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 16: Various political parties staged separate demonstrations and took out protest rallies across the province on Friday against the imposition of state of emergency and proclamation of the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO). The women’s wing of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) held a demonstration in Peshawar and condemned the removal of superior court […]
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan has assured a PPP delegation that the alleged ‘media trial’ of their leader Benazir Bhutto would be taken up in the commission’s forthcoming meeting to be held on November 19. PPP Election Monitoring Cell Chairman Senator Latif Khosa in a letter delivered to the ECP Secretary Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad by […]
KARACHI, Nov 16: The Sindh High Court on Friday asked the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to submit their comments on a petition challenging ban on four television channels by Nov 20. The petition, moved by the Independent Media Corporation (Pvt) Limited against the blackout imposed on […]
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