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Daily Archives: November 28, 2007

Journalist shot dead

DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 27: Highwaymen on Tuesday gunned down a journalist when he was on his way home with his wife on a motorcycle near Dera City/Choti Zaireen in Sadar police precincts. The criminals shot Zulfiqar Changwani, who worked for a national daily, when he refused to stop on their signal. Later, they fled […]


Swat militants take to the woods

PESHAWAR/MINGORA: After suffering colossal losses, the militants in restive Swat vacated all the seized police stations and other government buildings on Tuesday and decided to go underground while the government closed down all the FM radio channels in the district, including the one run by Maulana Fazlullah. Also, in the adjoining Shangla district, the security […]


Media curbs will be eased: minister

ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: The government will revoke some clauses of the ordinance promulgated by President Gen Pervez Musharraf hours after the imposition of emergency to restrict freedom of the print media and withdraw cases registered against journalists. The assurance was given by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Nisar Memon to representatives of the Pakistan Federal […]


Half the Story

After eight years mismanaging Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state faced with the demon of extremist violence, General Pervez Musharraf wants to stick around for another five, this time in the guise of a so-called civilian president. To that end, he has broken every conceivable principle of law, manipulated politics and wrecked hopes for a free election. […]


NADRA, EC to ensure registration of women voters

Islamabad – Pakistani Women form half of the country’s population are deprived of their constitutional right to cast vote according to their wishes in certain areas of the country. However, some women rights activists criticised the women for not taking any interest in the politics and keeping themselves away from the political affairs. The “Insaani […]


GTZ funded shelter homes for women to be set up

ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): The Women Development Ministry has started a GTZ funded project in collaboration with NGOs to establish shelter homes for women in crisis. Sources told Business Recorder here on Tuesday that implementation of the project will be carried out in collaboration with the Department of Zakat, Ushr, Social Welfare and Women Development […]


Spilling blood under the garb of honour

JHANG, Nov 28: The incidence of honour killing is on the rise as another girl was killed by her relatives on suspicion of her loose morals at Qadirpur Bakhsha in Jhang tehsil on Wednesday. Reports said Farooq Khan Baloch had suspicion that his daughter had relations with Amjad, a youngster of the locality. Seeing them […]