ISLAMABAD: Media stakeholders on Friday rejected the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO), emergency rule, code of conduct for the media and the two anti-media ordinances as a breach of social contract between the citizens and the state, and demanded the restoration of the constitution and a pre-November 3 judiciary. The rejection was made in a declaration […]
ISLAMABAD – The government on Friday lodged an FIR (First Information Report) against two journalist organizations, staging protest demonstration against the imposition of emergency and curbs on media in the garb of Pemra Ordinance. The FIR (No.354) has been filed at Aabpara police station here over the protest called by the PFUJ and the RIUJ […]
ISLAMABAD (APP) – Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has introduced a new package under which its subscribers will be able to make free Long Distance Nationwide calls. The call can made to all PTCL landline and wireless phone numbers for a modest fee of Rs. 199 per month under the facility called “Pakistan Package.” According […]
RAWALPINDI: Expressing their happiness over restoration of transmission of Geo television networks, public circles on Friday said that telecasts of the popular channel by cable operators should also be restored so that they could view the same. The news about restoration of Geo TV’s transmission on satellite spread in the country like jungle fire from […]
KARACHI: Evidence collected from the scene of the murder of a 22-year-old woman, who was married seven months ago, has left little doubt that she was murdered, according to the police who are searching for her runaway husband. Saima, the daughter of Abdul Ghani, was found dead Thursday in her house in Baldia Town. She […]
KARACHI: Nearly one-third of women have been sexually abused in some form or degree of incest including fondling, touching, exposure and in extreme cases rape, said psychiatrist Dr Uzma Ambareen of the Pakistan Association of Mental Health while talking to Daily Times about S’s case. Girls are targeted more than boys and it happens more […]
QUETTA: A Baloch journalist and his colleague went missing in Khuzdar district in the early hours of Friday, as his friends held intelligence agencies responsible for his sudden disappearance. Sources said Javed Lehri, 24, a journalist working with Quetta-based Daily Azadi, and his friend Ibrahim Baloch were allegedly picked up by some intelligence personnel while […]
KARACHI – A teenager girl was burnt to death in her house when she was cooking food in the kitchen and her dressed caught fire on Friday, in the jurisdiction of Saeedabad police station. Police said that Saima aged 16, was a residence of house No.1056, Sector 14/A Saeedabad, was busy in cooking in the […]
KARACHI: A married woman on Friday burnt herself to death by spraying kerosene oil on her body and the death toll of married women reached to four in two days. According to the police, a mother of one-year-son Salama, 23, wife of Abdul Hassan committed suicide in her residence located at Taiser town Lyari Express […]
KARACHI: A 36-year-old man S has been charged with using physical force and continually raping his daughter 16-year-old T for the last six years. According to S’s statement to the police, he came home drunk one day and found his daughter, then 10 years old, alone at home. His wife B had gone to her […]
ISLAMABAD (December 01 2007): An average 1,000 women are murdered in the name of honour every year in the country, out of them majority cases are not reported to law enforcement agencies or concerned non-governmental organisations for taking appropriate action against the perpetrators. Sources in Ministry of Women Development said that murder of women through […]
KARACHI -Society for the Protection of Rights for the Child (SPARC) the Child Rights Free Week campaign concluded Friday. The objective of this drive was to raise awareness among the general masses, the government and the various stakeholders on the ever-growing child labour. The emphasis this year is on Domestic Child labour. SPARC Sindh designed […]
ISLAMABAD (APP) – Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has introduced a new package under which its subscribers will be able to make free Long Distance Nationwide calls. The call can made to all PTCL landline and wireless phone numbers for a modest fee of Rs. 199 per month under the facility called “Pakistan Package.” According […]
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