ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday issued a notification of retirement of 24 High Court judges who did not take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO). According to the notification issued by the Ministry of Law, the judges who stand retired include 12 judges of the Sindh High Court (SHC), 10 of the Lahore High […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Security forces killed over 230 militants and arrested 90, including some foreign nationals, since the start of operation in Swat, according to interior ministry spokesman Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema. In his weekly press briefing on law and order on Tuesday, he said the operation in Swat was continuing and expressed the […]
The Election Tribunal of the Sindh High Court (SHC) has issued notices to the provincial election commissioner (PEC) and a returning officer (R0) for December 6 on the appeal of Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) candidate Safwanullah against the rejection of his nomination papers for National Assembly constituency NA-251, Karachi. The ex-federal minister’s counsel Mahfooz Yar […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has announced that it would welcome any number of international observers and media persons to watch the electoral process, the interior ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Briefing newsmen in Islamabad, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema (retd) said the government would facilitate observers to monitor the polls on the ground across […]
* Businessmen say shops closed after police expressed ‘helplessness’ * Govt official says militants planned to tighten noose around Peshawar till June 2008 PESHAWAR: Two men were seen busy putting up a white-coloured banner with announcements in blue, green and red to mark an end to the “business of movies” on Tuesday and the start […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday returned the constitutional petition challenging the closure of TV channels as well as amending the provisions of the Pemra Ordinance 2002 with the objections that the petition was not maintainable as the petitioner had no locus standi to file it. A letter addressed to Advocate-on-Record (AOR) of the Supreme […]
ISLAMABAD- The students, journalists, lawyers, human rights activists and politicians have demanded the suspension of Additional Superintendent Police, Nasir Aftab, who ordered to baton charge peaceful protesters besides misbehaving with female students who were gathered to hold a rally here on Tuesday. Highly charged students of different universities and colleges of the capital city, lawyers […]
KARACHI, Dec 4: The Sindh High Court dismissed as not maintainable on Tuesday a writ petition against the suspension of Geo television channel transmissions. Advocate-General Masood A. Noorani appeared on court notice and submitted that the petition was not competent under the Provisional Constitution Order, which had suspended Articles 19 (freedom of expression) and 25 […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions against the ban on the transmission of Geo TV channels as not maintainable. The Independent Media Corporation and Bird (Pvt) Ltd had challenged the ban on the transmission of Geo News, Geo Entertainment, Geo Super and Aag TV channels by the government. The SHC’s division bench […]
Eminent public intellectual and pioneer of alternative media, David Barsamian on Tuesday advocated a sustained struggle for democracy, freedoms and justice in Pakistan. “You must organise yourselves and resist draconian laws as democracy comes through efforts not rhetoric or sloganeering,” he said while delivering the Eqbal Ahmed Distinguished Lecture before an impressive audience at the […]
The Karachi Union of Journalists has threatened to go in for another protest plan for December 15 if the government fails to implement its decision taken at Islamabad meeting with mediafolk. It also said that it will announce future course of action for its ongoing protests on December 15 agaisnt media curbs that were imposed […]
KARACHI (PPI) – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the initiation by authorities of a complaint to police in Islamabad against the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and its subsidiary union, the Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ). According to the PFUJ, an IFJ affiliate, a First Information Report (FIR) was filed […]
LAHORE, Dec 5: A young couple was found dead in their flat under mysterious circumstances in the Civil Lines area on Wednesday morning. The family and police suspected that the couple had committed suicide after hanging themselves with a ceiling fan for being issueless. According to Edhi officials, bodies of Mubashir, 28, and his wife […]
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Nisar A Memon, presented a cheque worth Rs1 million funds to the Karachi Press Club (KPC) and ensured all-out support to the media for their facilitation. He presented the cheque to the KPC office-bearers on Tuesday and met a delegation of the KPC headed by its President Sabihuddin Ghousi, […]
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