ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: President Pervez Musharraf introduced six more amendments in the Constitution through executive orders on Friday – a day before the lifting of the emergency, revocation of the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and restoration of the Constitution. Ordinances incorporating the amendments were promulgated late on Friday night. Attorney General Malik Mohammed Qayyum told […]
KARACHI, Dec 14: A five-member bench of the Sindh High Court adjourned the hearing of the May 12 case to Jan 15, 2008, to consider the maintainability of the proceedings. An associate of Advocate Qazi Faez Isa, who was appointed amicus curiae (friend of the court) by the previous seven-member bench that had initiated the […]
KARACHI (December 15 2007): City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has given final shape to the establishment of “Rescue Service” which will be launched soon. A meeting held under the chairmanship of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal here on Friday, decided to set-up a new department for this service while services of some expert will be […]
Karachi: There were a lot of rumours about the historical belongings of Radio Pakistan being burnt after the fire broke out. There were also rumours that the table and chair used by Liaqat Ali Khan to first address the nation had fallen victim to the fire. The station’s Director, Iqbal Azam Faridi, confirmed that the […]
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has decided to stage a big protest demonstration in front of the President House at Islamabad against the ongoing curbs on media including Geo TV and the new laws introduced by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) president Arif Hameed Bhatti announced during a […]
HYDERABAD, Nov 14: More than 300 activists of Pakistan People’s Party, including two MNAs and two MPAs, were arrested in different parts of Sindh on Wednesday after skirmishes with police when they staged demonstrations and rallies in protest against house arrest of Benazir Bhutto, imposition of emergency and large-scale arrests of party leaders and activists. […]
LAHORE: Three people, including a retired major, a journalist and a young man were injured when a speeding car rammed into a road’s divider and collided into two other cars on the Jail Road late on Friday night. Police told Daily Times that Kashif and Haroon, both in their early twenties and residents of Allama […]
A young woman, who eloped with her beloved and fell into an ugly trap of sexual victimisation after being raped and sold for three months in two different cities of the country, has returned home and lodged a complaint with local police. Roma Yasmeen, aged 27, daughter of Muhammad Arif, resident of Syed Kasran, telling […]
THE killing of 16-year-old Pakistani-Canadian Aqsa Parvez by her father over her refusal to wear the hijab speaks volumes for the kind of tensions that exist between Pakistanis who migrate to the West and their offspring who find themselves trapped in a cultural limbo. Similar cases have occurred in Italy and Britain, where Pakistani migrants […]
KARACHI, Dec 14: The senior civil judge and judicial magistrate, west, Shafiqullah M. Hassan, directed investigation officer to submit a final charge-sheet in a double murder case within three days. According to the prosecution, Kashif Ali Khan, a bank manager, and his wife Mehwish were found shot dead in their house in Taisar Town on […]
A young woman, who eloped with her beloved and fell into an ugly trap of sexual victimisation after being raped and sold for three months in two different cities of the country, has returned home and lodged a complaint with local police. Roma Yasmeen, aged 27, daughter of Muhammad Arif, resident of Syed Kasran, telling […]
LANDI KOTAL: The Mulla Gori and Zakha Khel tribes in Khyber Agency at a public meeting in Mulla Gori Sherbridge on Friday announced that their women would not be allowed to vote. Tribal elders warned the Election Commission not to set up polling stations for women in their areas, saying they would shut them down. […]
The judiciary should be restored to the pre-November 3 conditions, President Pervez Musharraf should step down, the emergency should be lifted, curbs on the media should be withdrawn, deposed judges should be reinstated, the caretaker government should be suspended, and free and fair elections should be held under an impartial election commission. These were the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), Qazi Azmat Isa, on Thursday said militancy impacted on children in two ways: one as victims and the other as potential militants. Speaking at the annual conference titled “Child Militancy in Pakistan”, he said tribal lords, religious militants, various […]
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