KARACHI: ‘Aur Mango Azaadi,’ taunted a policeman in riot gear while using a four-foot long bamboo stick to lash reporters, sub-editors, photographers and media supporters who had gathered outside the Karachi Press Club to protest media curbs Tuesday. The rally concluded only after more than 200 journalists, belonging to different newspapers and TV channels, voluntarily […]
KARACHI, Nov 20: The police arrested more than 100 journalists on Tuesday after they baton-charged the newsmen’s peaceful procession towards the Governor’s House from the Karachi Press Club organized to express concern against media curbs a day after the government decided to release those arrested for defying emergency rule. However, late on Tuesday night the […]
LAHORE, Nov 20: The Khanewal police claimed on Tuesday to have recovered two American girls kidnapped for a Rs100 million ransom and shot dead two of the kidnappers in a ‘shootout’ at Harbanspura. A Lahore police official told Dawn that a Khanewal police team arrested five kidnappers, including two women, on Monday afternoon and killed […]
ISLAMABAD: President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Nasir Khan demanded of the government that people involved in child labor should be dealt with iron hand. Speaking on number of children engaged in labor, he said that in Pakistan 67 per cent children were engaged in agriculture, 11 percent in carpet sector, five percent in […]
DARRA ADAMKHEL: Kidnappers released Pakistan International Human Rights Organisation Chairman Malik Habib Aurakzai here on Tuesday. The local militants had kidnapped Malik Habib, who was going to Peshawar, a few days ago. The release of Malik Habib was made possible through political authorities, who put pressure on the local militants and also involved the local […]
UMERKOT – In a bid to mark the International Children Day, the Child Rights Committee Umerkot in collaboration with the SPARC (Society for the Protection of the Rights of Child) organised a dialogue under the title of “Consultation with Media on Sexual Abuse” here on Tuesday. Briefing the media men District Coordinator Abdullah Khoso said […]
LAHORE, Nov 20: The Pakistani authorities are cutting a sorry figure before the Turkish government for their failure in controlling human smuggling, it is learnt. According to an official of the Federal Investigation Agency, the Turkish authorities have expressed displeasure over unchecked human smuggling from Pakistan and asked Islamabad to do the needful. FIA passport […]
MULTAN, Nov 20: With the judiciary tamed and media gagged, rights activist Mukhtar Mai is worried which door should the poor and aggrieved knock at to seek justice. “The media is the last hope for this nation but the official efforts to hide truth by imposing curbs are extremely worrying for every concerned Pakistani,” she […]
PESHAWAR: The NWFP Governor, Lt Gen (retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, on Tuesday said that 60 persons, including the security forces personnel, had been killed in Parachinar fighting and the ongoing Jirga would hopefully overcome the situation. Addressing a function jointly organised by the provincial law, parliamentary affairs and human rights department and the Unicef […]
Pakistan is a highly misunderstood nation. Various media reports selectively declare it to be the most dangerous place in the world, even worse than Iraq. The Foreign Offices of Western nations have issued warnings (travel advice) to their citizens regarding visiting Pakistan. All these paint a picture of gloom and doom. The imposition of emergency, […]
ARY and Geo TV channels have been wrapped up in Dubai due to immense pressure by the government of Pakistan. These channels have been ordered to shut down their businesses and transmissions by the authorities of the concerned country from where it was aired. I am very worried by the direct foreign intervention in the […]
The fact is that even the mainstream opposition parties, PPP and PMLN are not too accepting of an independent judiciary or media. They may be supporting the judiciary and media right now, for pragmatic reasons, but once in power, their attitudes might not remain consistent General Musharraf’s imposition of emergency and crackdown on the judiciary, […]
KARACHI (APP) – Chairman NADRA brig ((Rtd) Saleem Ahmed Moeen has said that every citizen should get registered with the NADRA in order to be able to avail the facility of getting a telephone connection to hassle free utility bill payment. “Every facility is now linked with the verification of the credentials of citizen through […]
Sindh High Court has given a last chance to the federal government’s law officer for filing comments on identical petitions filed by Independent Media Corporation and Bird (Pvt) against the ban on transmission of Geo TV channels, observing that the court would pass appropriate order on the next date if its direction was not complied […]
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