PESHAWAR – A powerful bomb explosion damaged a shop of electronic goods while a rocket hit a police check-post in another incident here Wednesday. Police sources said that a powerful bomb went off in the wee hours of Wednesday outside an electronic goods shop, located in Pandu Chowk, reducing a number of TVs, VCRs, radios […]
ISLAMABAD: Opposition leader in the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani on Wednesday demanded that the two ordinances namely the Press, Newspapers, News Agencies and Books Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 2007 and the Pemra (Third Amendment) Ordinance, 2007 be repealed immediately. “If these ordinances are not repealed, the combined opposition in the Senate will move resolutions of disapproval […]
The three journalists running under a party ticket have left their editorial positions, while the one journalist running as an independent remains at an Urdu daily Peshawar — Four people with some experience of journalism are contesting elections from different parts of the Frontier province. Three of them have actually left the profession, while one […]
Journalists’ organisations in Balochistan on Wednesday lauded the nomination of a director for the Press Information Department (PID) to establish liaison between the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) and the capital administration for quashing FIRs registered, against journalists, with different police stations in the twin cities. Source: Daily […]
UMERKOT – journalists expressed grave concern and condemned the statement of Secretary Election Commissioner with regard to bounding the journalists in limits during election coverage, here today. Musawir Shahid Senior Network Coordinator and journalists Allah Bux Arisir, Parshotam Khatri, Walli Muhammad Maher, Bhagwan Das Khatri said that statement of Secretary Election Commissioner with regard to […]
KARACHI, Dec 19: Artist Abdul Mohammad Ismail, better known as Gulgee, wife Zareen Gulgee and a maidservant were found murdered in their Clifton residence on Wednesday afternoon. The information regarding the triple murder was given to police by the couple’s only son, Amin Gulgee, who lives in an adjoining portion of the house. “Maidservant Aasia’s […]
PESHAWAR – A powerful bomb explosion damaged a shop of electronic goods while a rocket hit a police check-post in another incident here Wednesday. Police sources said that a powerful bomb went off in the wee hours of Wednesday outside an electronic goods shop, located in Pandu Chowk, reducing a number of TVs, VCRs, radios […]
ISLAMABAD: Fair and free elections in Pakistan are “impossible” following the dismantling of an independent judiciary and a crackdown on critics, a rights group said on Wednesday. New York-based Human Rights Watch said scores of lawyers, judges and other government critics remained detained in Pakistan despite the lifting of the state of emergency on December […]
LAHORE, Dec 19: Fourteen people died in an accident involving a trailer and a rickshaw carrying schoolchildren near Pattoki, 80km from here, on Wednesday. Seven of the victims, including three girls and two boys belonged to the same family. Witnesses and police said the accident took place in front of the Karachi Flour Mills at […]
ISLAMABAD: The only cinema in the capital will start functioning next week in the auditorium of the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Sources told Daily Times that all necessary arrangements had been made in this regard. “We are planning to stage one film daily as we cannot afford to book the auditorium for the […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 19: Investigators have so far been unable to find any clue to the bomb explosions which damaged the shrine of Abdul Shakoor Baba and a video shop on Wednesday morning. The police officials said the bomb exploded in the early hours Wednesday when the shop’s owner Ramzan Khan had not yet come to […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Dec 19: At least 50 people were killed and 203 others were injured when the Lahore-bound Karachi Express carrying most of holiday travellers derailed near Mehrabpur, some 55km from here in the early hours of Wednesday. Twelve bogies of the train slipped off the track. The victims were trapped in four of them. […]
MINGORA: Security forces arrested eight suspected militants and targeted militant positions in the Puchar and Manjad areas of Swat district late Tuesday night, sources said. They added that security forces destroyed several militant hideouts and that the eight people arrested from the Baryam Pul and Fizagat checkpoints were said to be close aides of the […]
ISLAMABAD: The only cinema in the capital will start functioning next week in the auditorium of the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Sources told Daily Times that all necessary arrangements had been made in this regard. “We are planning to stage one film daily as we cannot afford to book the auditorium for the […]
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