ISLAMABAD, Jan 10: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Thursday called for the suspension of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) until the redress of media organisations’ complaints against it. A PFUJ press release said there were fears that the Pemra officials would try to influence television channels into toeing the official […]
EXACTLY two weeks after the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto in a terror strike in Rawalpindi, 24 people were killed, including 21 policemen, and about 60 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the police force gathering outside the Lahore High Court building Thursday morning just ahead of the lawyers’ protest rally. The […]
LAHORE, Jan 10: A suicide bomber struck near the Lahore High Court on Thursday morning, killing at least 24 people and injuring 73 others. Police boots, riot shields and helmets littered the street. The bomber walked up to a police contingent at GPO Chowk, on Ustad Allah Bux Road, ahead of a lawyers’ protest march […]
KARACHI (PPI) – Security was beefed up in Karachi and other parts of province after a suicide bomb blast outside Lahore High Court on Thursday. According to senior officials, police and Rangers have been put on high alert in the metropolis besides intensifying mobile patrolling in high security zones. The additional deployments of law-enforcement agencies’ […]
Nineteen-year-old victim of intra-country trafficking, Sajida, and her 18-monh-old daughter Rida will be returning home to Gujranwala along with her neighbour Rana Saleem’s sister-in-law, Aswad Tabassum. Sajida had been sold into an arranged marriage by her family when she was 15 years old. A couple of weeks ago, her husband Tariq and his friend Aslam, […]
HYDERABAD, Jan 10: A 14-year-old boy, the victim of corporal punishment, died here at the Civil Hospital on Thursday. Mudassar Aslam’s health didn’t improve after two successive intestinal surgeries. The boy was severely punished by his schoolteacher at a government school in November past year. He was laid to rest amid tears in a local […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has decided to collect data on the people implicated in cases of arson throughout the province. The HRCP has expressed grave concern over reports of the misuse of state machinery against political workers, following the assassination of PPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto. In a statement issued Thursday, HRCP […]
KARACHI, Jan 10: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Thursday announced that it will collect information about workers of political parties and citizens arrested or wanted on allegations about their involvement in the Dec 27-related violence. In a statement issued on Thursday, HRCP’s secretary-general Iqbal Haider and vice-chairperson Zohra Yusuf expressed grave concern […]
ATTOCK, Jan 10: Regional Police officer (RPO) DIG Nasir Khan Durrani on Saturday ordered an inquiry to ascertain the cause of death of a medical college student and his girlfriend. Earlier, the local police declared their death a suicide in the FIR without examining the ground facts and evidence of the incident. The RPO issued […]
ISLAMABAD – President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ijaz Abbasi underlined the importance of women’s role in economic activities, saying that without their active part, the economic development could not be achieved. Addressing a meeting of the women entrepreneurs held here on Thursday, the president urged the women entrepreneurs to take part in the […]
RAWALPINDI: Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan on Thursday awarded death sentence to Abdul Khaliq, a resident of Murree, who axed his wife to death on a family dispute in 2006. The convict was also sentenced to 10-month imprisonment and a fine of Rs 0.3 million. According to details, Abdual Khaliq killed […]
KARACHI: The film censor board has decided to censor films that are to be released on CDs and DVDs in Karachi. Film Censor Board of Pakistan (FCBP) Vice-Chairman Khalid Butt announced this decision at a meeting with the Video Merchants Rainbow Centre Association (VMRCA) held Thursday at Rainbow Centre in Saddar. According to details, the […]
SUKKUR: A meeting of the CPNE standing committee was held at a local hotel on Thursday for holding a condolence reference for slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto. The two-hour-long reference was addressed by more than 30 members of the CPNE, while its president Arif Nizami chaired the meeting. A resolution was passed by the committee […]
KARACHI: Justice Rana M. Shamim of the High Court of Sindh (SHC), taking suo moto notice of the failure of the Frere police in handing over the custody of two children to their mother, issued Thursday a show-cause notice to the SHO of the Frere police. According to details, Ms Ambreen Fatima filed a case […]
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