KHAR, Dec 28: A bomb exploded in a girls’ school here on Thursday evening, destroying two classrooms. According to the political administration of the Bajaur Agency, the bomb had been planted in a hall of the school. Parents have been receiving threatening letters in recent days asking them to stop sending their daughters to schools. […]
Telecommunication networks, including cellular-phone services and landline phones, remained suspended in the entire country for over four hours following the assassination of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto in a suicide attack Thursday evening in Rawalpindi. Immediately after news of her death spread, people tried to contact others through their cell-phones but they failed […]
KARACHI, Dec 27: Fear and chaos ruled the city as news spread about former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s death in an apparent suicide attack in Rawalpindi, with the ensuing violence in Karachi claiming at least five lives while more than 150 vehicles, some petrol pumps and a hospital were set ablaze. The city descended into […]
Date: December 27th, 2007 Location: Karachi Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) organized a one-day dialogue program for journalists and civil society members on Media Coverage of Elections in Karachi on December 27, 2007. Forty-nine journalists and civil society members participated in the workshop, facilitated by Chief Reporter of Daily Nawa-e-Waqt Karachi Yousuf Khan. The objectives of […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 26: Unidentified people blew up the office of a cable TV network situated on the Agha Mir Jani Shah Road in the early hours of Wednesday. Sources said that the owner of the office, Ejaz Hussein, had been threatened to close the business. The bomb went off in the office at around 4.30am […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Over a dozen shops were damaged in a blast in Bazaar Kalan on Wednesday. The blast occurred in Imran Video Centre. Fourteen other shops were also badly damaged in the explosion. The incident has spread terror among the citizens, as the spot is located close to a police post. Source: The News […]
KARACHI – People’s Resistance (PR) a coalition of concerned citizens, organisations and political parties held a token hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday against restoration of judiciary and curb on media. People Resistance (PR) in collaboration with other representatives of civil society has demand for the restoration of the pre-Nov 3, 2007 […]
RAWALPINDI (December 27 2007): Strict curbs imposed on media and purging of judiciary by Musharraf government has cast serious shadow of doubts over January 8 elections’ fairness, increasing the apprehensions that these would be rigged. Then ban on private TV channels and advertisements of particular media group are tantamount of economic murder of more than […]
KARACHI – People’s Resistance (PR) a coalition of concerned citizens, organisations and political parties held a token hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday against restoration of judiciary and curb on media. People Resistance (PR) in collaboration with other representatives of civil society has demand for the restoration of the pre-Nov 3, 2007 […]
RAWALPINDI (December 27 2007): Strict curbs imposed on media and purging of judiciary by Musharraf government has cast serious shadow of doubts over January 8 elections’ fairness, increasing the apprehensions that these would be rigged. Then ban on private TV channels and advertisements of particular media group are tantamount of economic murder of more than […]
ISLAMABAD: The killer of a 7-year-old girl was arrested by the Capital Police from the Islamabad Airport when he arrived from the first Hajj flight here on Tuesday after performing Hajj. Shahid Azim, the son of Muhammad Shafi, raped a 7-year-old girl, strangulated her and threw her body on the roof of another house of […]
QUETTA (PPI) – A bomb explosion damaged a printer press building in Khuzdar late Tuesday night. According to details, a bomb explosion occurred in front of a printing press at Agha Sultan Khan Road in Khuzdar late Tuesday night. Explosion damaged wall of the press. Windowpanes were also shattered. There was no casualty. Police registered […]
RAWALPINDI: Candidates of all political parties have hired services of women workers to deliver their political manifestos at the voters’ homes. In order to win support of the voters, women workers have started visiting homes by carrying manifestos, messages and voter receipts of candidates of their respective political parties. Women workers will also perform duties […]
* Hold convention on Peshawar High Court premises * Ask Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif to join lawyers’ movement PESHAWAR: On the call of the Pakistan Bar Council, lawyers across NWFP observed ‘Black Day’ on Wednesday against the ‘manhandling’ and re-arrest of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan on the morning of […]
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