ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Caretaker Minister for Law Syed Afzal Haider on Monday said the proposed Islamabad High Court would commence functioning with principal seat in the federal capital from early next year as all legal instruments necessary for establishing the court would be completed by mid of this month. “The high court for the Islamabad […]
KARACHI (December 11 2007): While the City Council passed two unread resolutions on Monday, the union council (UC) nazims from opposition benches registered strong resistance for not being taken on board in preparation of Karachi Strategic Development Plan-2020 (KSDP-2020). The City Council session, held after almost 20 minutes delay due to lack of quorum here […]
ATTOCK, Dec 10: A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden car near a military vehicle carrying children of Pakistan Air Force employees to school on Monday, injuring four children and three other people. The attack took place near the Fauji gate outside the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra on the Attock-Kamra road. It may be mentioned […]
HANGU: An explosion occurred in a CD shop, destroying it completely here at Tull Road, however, no casualty was reported. According to Hangu police, some unknown persons planted a bomb in a CD shop which detonated with a heavy explosion. The shop was completely destroyed but caused no loss of life. The police have started […]
HYDERABAD: A leader of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and chairman of managing committee of Sindh Bar Council, Fazal Qadir Momon has said that the year 2007 proved to be worst with increase of human rights violations by state. In a statement issued here on Monday, Memon said that on 9th March Chief Justice […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 10: The NWFP chapter of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) observed on Monday the International Day of Human Rights as a ‘black day’. “The year 2007 is the worst year in the country’s history for human rights violations and we are today mourning it,” Prof Dr Mohammad Sadique, a member of […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 10 – Nearly all private television channels blacked out last month by President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency decree are back on the air. But the country’s once-thriving television news media remain largely muzzled by sweeping new restrictions that journalists and Western diplomats say stifle criticism of the government. A giant television screen in […]
PESHAWAR: Like other parts of the country, the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) also staged a protest demonstration to condemn restrictions on the media and the judiciary on the international human rights day here on Monday. Led by the KhUJ President Jan Afzal, General Secretary Nasir Hussain and President Press Club Mohammad Riaz, the protesting […]
ISLAMABAD- A protest rally was taken out on Monday from Islamabad Press Club to GEO TV building against curbs on media on the occasion of International Human Rights Day. The demonstration led by president RIUJ, Afzal Butt and secretary general PFUJ, Mazhar Abbas. Senior journalists, lawyers, political workers and civil society members attended the procession. […]
ISLAMABAD: Around 200 journalists of the twin cities held a rally in front of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club to press the government to remove curbs on media on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day on Monday. The rally was organised on the call of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ). Members of […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10: Journalists in different parts of the country observed the International Human Rights Day, on a call of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), and held rallies, demonstrations and seminars against the curbs on media and the promulgation of two anti-press laws. Rallies were held in Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Faisalabad, Sukkur, […]
KARACHI: Caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (retd) Abdul Qadir Halepota announced Monday a one-million-rupee cash award, on behalf of the Sindh Government, for noted Urdu poet and intellectual Jamiluddin Aali. He made this announcement while addressing a ceremony hosted in honour of Jamiluddin Aali under the auspices of the Sindh Ombudsman at a local hotel. […]
LAHORE, Dec 10: The expression for an independent judiciary emerged loud and clear when lawyers, students and people from all walks of life rallied on The Mall after converging at the Lahore High Court to mark the World Human Rights Day as a ‘black day’ on Monday. The second most voiced demand at the protest […]
MARDAN: A bomb exploded at the main gate of Government Girls High School (Sharqi) here on early Monday morning, however no casualty was reported as school was closed at that time. The powerful blast destroyed the main gate and classrooms and its sound was heard in the whole city and surrounding areas. There are three […]
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