KARACHI (January 05 2008): Provincial Minister for Information, Dewan Mohammed Yousuf Farooqui and Secretary Information Fasihuddin Khan, have condemned the armed attack on Ali Kazi, Chief Executive KTN and Editor Kawish, and Naz Sehto, Senior Reporter daily Kawish on Thursday night. The firing incident took place at Waggan while they were on way to Naudero […]
KARACHI: It has been more than two months, since the fire at Radio Pakistan Karachi (RPK) burnt all 14 stations to ash on October 28. Soon after the incident, two separate enquiry committees were formed. The Federal Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (FMIB) formed one headed by FMIB Additional Secretary FazlÂur-Rehman while RPK Deputy Controller […]
KARACHI, Jan 4: Additional district and sessions judge, East, Rana Zaki Shamsi on Friday indicted the moazzin of a mosque on charges of killing a 12-year-old boy in a mosque in Shah Faisal Colony. Hafiz Manzoor Ahmed, who was accused of the crime, pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the case. The judge summoned […]
Some unknown persons gunned down a journalist in Peshawar on monday, the BBC reported, quoting police officials. Syed Kamil Mashhadi, the staffer of a private TV channel, was on his way back home on his motorcycle when some armed assailants attacked him near Taldi Gate. Source: The Nation Date:1/5/2008
KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) cancelled the license of Instaphone on Friday citing the country’s first cellular companyÂ’s failure to pay its outstanding dues. Pakcom, the company that runs Instaphone, failed to meet the payment schedule of $291 million for getting the operating license renewed for next 15 years from 2005, the PTA said in […]
Council for Islamic Ideology (CII) has stated that violence against women in Pakistan is on the increase and that the state should ensure that women’s representation in the parliamentary system is made permanent. For the first time, the Council is thinking of convening a seminar on domestic violence and printing its findings in a book […]
SUKKUR: Journalists have condemned the attempt on lives of private TV channel KTN’s chief executive Ali Kazi and reporter Naz Sehto, here on Friday. An emergency meeting was held at the Sukkur Press Club (SPC) on Friday, which was presided over by the club’s president Khawaja Jawed and participated by journalists belonging to the print […]
SUKKUR: Sukkur-based journalists belonging to print and electronic media have strongly condemned the attempt on the lives of chief executive and editor and senior reporter of a television channel. President Sukkur press club Khawaja Jawed presided over an urgent meeting of journalists on Friday evening which strongly condemned the attempt on the lives of chief […]
LARKANA, Jan 4: Sindhi writers and intellectuals on Friday condemned large-scale arrests of PPP activists in Sindh and said that insinuations of lingual and ethnic bias made by President Pervez Musharraf, Chaudhry Pervaiz Illahi and Altaf Hussain in their speeches was dangerous because it might inflame passions along wrong lines all over the country. This […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 4: Three women living in a government-run Women Crisis Centre are reported to have left the place under questionable circumstances. Officials said the centre’s management had let the three women go because “they wanted to move out on their own”. They had not sought the court’s permission before leaving. The three missing women […]
Nineteen-year-old Sajida, along with her 18-month-old daughter Rida, was recently [allegedly] sold and trafficked by her lawfully wedded husband, Tariq. She currently resides at a shelter home in Karachi, has refused to go back home, and is waiting for the call of some of her relatives, who she says are the only people she can […]
At least 1,317 women were victimised in the previous year in various incidents of violence across the country, while 101 women were victimised in the month of December alone, including former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The highest number of deaths occurred on the pretext of Karo-kari (honour killing) in which 210 women and 117 men […]
GUJRANWALA, Jan 5: Judicial Magistrate Chaudhry Anwer Ali on Saturday ordered two-day judicial remand of a man who wed his stepsister. On Friday, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mustafa Tanveer Safwat annulled Karamat Ali Shah’s marriage with his half sister, Faiza Batool, in the light of a DNA report, which showed that Karamat was the […]
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