Karachi: In an eagerly awaited major move, the Sindh High Court (SHC) finally wended to entertain human rights issues, directing the authorities for immediate production of details regarding women prisoners and alleged youthful offenders detained in prisons and facing miseries of the trial delay syndrome. Chief Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad took up the matter on Monday […]
MINGORA, Dec 9: A suicide bomber exploded a vehicle near a highly-guarded checkpoint, killing 10 people, two of them children and three policemen, in Ningwalai on Sunday. Witnesses said the bomber blew up the explosive-laden double-cabin pick-up after he was stopped for check at the barricade of a checkpoint on the Matta road in Ningwalai, […]
Islamabad: She is one of the most popular faces on Pakistani Television and perhaps the only woman journalist who dared to discuss the nitty-gritties of Pakistani politics on her late-night show The Parliament Gallery. No wonder then that her show was one of the first shows to be pulled off air hours before Emergency was […]
ISLAMABAD: Nearly all private television channels blacked out last month by President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency decree are back on the air. But Pakistan’s once thriving television news media remain largely muzzled by a sweeping new “code of conduct” that journalists and Western diplomats say stifles criticism of the government. After the blackout cost leading channels […]
SUKKUR: Three persons including two brothers were gunned down and two minor children were injured by the armed persons over a karo-kari dispute, in village Rajab Tart Jatoi, falling under the Lakhi Ghulam Shah police station jurisdiction, district Shikarpur on early morning Sunday. A group of armed persons barged into the house of Gamboh Jatoi, […]
Karachi: In an eagerly awaited major move, the Sindh High Court (SHC) finally wended to entertain human rights issues, directing the authorities for immediate production of details regarding women prisoners and alleged youthful offenders detained in prisons and facing miseries of the trial delay syndrome. Chief Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad took up the matter on Monday […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 10: Several government girls’ schools have received letters threatening that they would be blown up if their staff does not observe purdah. A police official told Dawn that schools in Ghari, Banda and Ahmed Shah villages had received the letters. “Most of the students even in lower classes have already started wearing veil […]
JACOBABAD, Dec 9: A teenage girl was killed by her cousin on the pretext of karo-kari in Mareepur village in the Risaldar area of Tangwani taluka on Sunday. Reports said that Latifan, 16, daughter of Waris, was at her home when her cousin Karim Bux Golato and his accomplices reached there and shot her dead. […]
SUKKUR: Three persons including two brothers were gunned down and two minor children were injured by the armed persons over a karo-kari dispute, in village Rajab Tart Jatoi, falling under the Lakhi Ghulam Shah police station jurisdiction, district Shikarpur on early morning Sunday. A group of armed persons barged into the house of Gamboh Jatoi, […]
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf said Pakistan stands committed to the promotion and protection of Human Rights and will set up an independent National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) to provide safeguards and security to its citizens. The president, in a message on the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by […]
KARACHI, Dec 9: Keeping in view the increasing incidents of cable theft in the city, the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has established a “Security Vigilance Committee South” to be headed by a colonel. This PTCL body in collaboration with the area police will hunt down cable thieves in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Pak Capital, Orangi, Korangi, […]
Islamabad-Paintings of K.B Abro and Nahid Raza was put on display here at Nomad Art Gallery on Sunday on the theme of “ stop violence against women”. The paintings of K.B Abro basically comprised digital art and looked like original paintings. K.B Abro used a totally different medium displayed in the gallery, digital art. The […]
ISLAMABAD: The earnest feel for women issues was portrayed effectively and passionately by two veteran artists, KB Abro and Nahid Raza in a painting exhibition titled ‘No to Violence against Women’, which starts today at the Nomad Art Gallery. The exhibition was organised in collaboration with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to […]
The Karachi Press Club (KPC) organised the annual Independence Day ‘Mehfil-e-Nishat’ (musical night) on Saturday for its members and their families. The event could not be held on August 14 this year because heavy rains had flooded roads and created havoc in the city. Programmes for children were also organized. These included rides, puppet shows, […]
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