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Daily Archives: January 8, 2008

=> ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday remand

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday remanded the case against suspension of transmission of Geo Television to the Sindh High Court with the direction to decide it on merit within a month. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Justice Muhammad Moosa K Leghari and Justice Chaudhry Ejaz […]


=> Karachi (PPI)- The International Federation of Jou

Karachi (PPI)- The International Federation of Journalists has announced its full support to its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists PFUJ in its campaign against draconian laws imposed on, November 3 to gag the press. Particularly affected are electronic media and broadcasters, with the closure of 45 private TV channels and two FM radio […]


=> KARACHI – The journalists and PPP volunteers were

KARACHI – The journalists and PPP volunteers were not frisked at the airport while the Special Branch officials did not maintain record of any suspicious person present in Benazir Bhutto’s rally in Karachi on 18 October, the inquiry tribunal was told here on Monday. The tribunal headed by Justice (Retd) Dr Ghous Mohammad for an […]


=> City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has posed a question

City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has posed a question as a “common citizen”, as to where the civil society, lawyers, and journalists were when “women were raped” and people were burnt alive when riots erupted Karachi on December 27. He said this while informally talking to newsmen at his office Monday evening and further asked […]


=> KARACHI (January 08 2008): Business Recorder staff

KARACHI (January 08 2008): Business Recorder staffer Rais Ahmad Khan’s sister, Mrs Shamim Majid, died on Monday morning. She was above 80, and is survived by two daughters and two sons. Three of her children are settled in the US while one daughter lives in Karachi. Mrs Shamim Majid was suffering from Alzheimer’s for the […]


=> Supreme Court Bar Association Vice President Ghula

Supreme Court Bar Association Vice President Ghulam Nabi Bhatti, Bar General Secretary Chaudhry Muhammad Amin Javaid, Media Co-ordinator Muhammad Saddique Azhar and other executive body members have congratulated Mohsin Goyraya for being elected the Lahore Press Club’s president-elect and other office bearers. Source: Business Recorder Date:1/8/2008


=> ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Taking its customers for granted

ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Taking its customers for granted, the Pakistan Telecommunication Company has yet again introduced pre-activated service. The ‘Local Call Package’ offers a landline to landline call charged at Rs4.60 (Rs3.99 plus 15 per cent tax) whether user talks for one minute or one hour between 4pm and 8am. The package has been applied […]


=> KARACHI (January 08 2008): Sindh Caretaker Ministe

KARACHI (January 08 2008): Sindh Caretaker Minister for Information and Finance, Dewan Muhammad Yousuf Farooqui and Secretary Information and Archives, Fasihuddin Khan have extended their best wishes to the newly elected Office-bearers of Karachi Press Club. They congratulated Najeeb Ahmed, President, Imtiaz Khan Faran, Secretary and other office-bearers of Karachi Press Club. They appreciated the […]


ISLAMABAD (APP)— The initiative taken by Ministry

ISLAMABAD (APP)— The initiative taken by Ministry of Women Development for organizing IT training workshops specifically for women councillors is laudable. The program was launched under IT training project for 3100 women councillors to make them competent for playing their effective role at grassroots level, an official of ministry said here Monday while talking to […]