ISLAMABAD (January 26 2008): As President Pervez Musharraf struggles to keep his evaporating backing in Europe, his bitter opponents, back home, carry on digging ashes to inflame his opposition. No sooner than Musharraf left for his European tour last week, retired generals agreed on a single-point agenda of his resignation. Similarly, lawyers also submitted their […]
RAWALPINDI (January 26 2008): Photo exhibition of former prime minister and chairperson Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Benazir Bhutto was held here at Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club on Friday. The exhibition was organised by senior photo journalist Amjad Hussain in collaboration with other professional photographers. PPP central leader Senator Safdar Abbasi was the chief guest. Senior party […]
With the general elections looming large, women’s rights are again coming to the fore in the North West Frontier Province where the two powerful influences on the Pakhtun society – the Mullah and the Khan – seem to be at odds on the issue. While both sides agree on keeping women segregated and confined to […]
LONDON (January 26 2008): President Pervez Musharraf faced a barrage of criticism and threatened protests on Friday ahead of his arrival in London for a visit including talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Human rights group Amnesty International plans a demonstration outside Downing Street on Saturday, while further protests are scheduled for Monday, the day […]
LONDON (January 26 2008): President Pervez Musharraf cast himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on Friday – then turned on a journalist who questioned him and said rights should have limits. Addressing a packed audience in Britain at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence think-tank, Musharraf spent 30 minutes explaining […]
KARACHI (January 26 2008): Fazl-ur-Rehman, a former employee of Business Recorder, died of cardiac arrest on Friday. He was 70. Son of Aziz-ur-Rehman, he succumbed to the heart attack as he returned home at H/No R-49, Sector 8-A, Gulshan-e-Zahoor, Abyssinia Lines, after offering the Asr prayers. According to relatives, Fazl, who was born in 1938, […]
CHARSADDA, Jan 25: Leaders of mainstream political parties here on Friday pledged all-out cooperation to safeguard women’s rights in the district at all costs. Addressing a seminar — Face to face dialogue with political parties — organised by the Aurat Foundation, MMA leader Maulana Gohar Shah said “Islam guarantees full protection to women and has […]
A spokesman of Business North Zone Islamabad, PTCL, has said that universal access number (UAN) 111-465-465 is working for activation of value-added services for the valued customers of Islamabad and Rawalpindi cities. In a press release he urged the subscribers to use universal access number 111-465-465, which is working from 9:00a.m to 9:00p.m for the […]
LAHORE (January 17 2008): The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has said it is carrying out a consultation process to seek proposals and suggestions to revise and evolve the next telecom policy since the current one will be completed in 2008. Authority Chairman Shahzada Alam Malik told reporters that the current policy remained successful, recording a […]
* Police claim actor wanted to see accused being tortured * Travel agents association support the accused colleague LAHORE: Film actor Aisha Haq has accused the Township investigation police of protecting a man who — she alleges — has been harassing her. Aisha told a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Friday that […]
ISLAMABAD (January 19 2008): Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has singed a contract to get in place a technical facility to root out grey traffic in telecom sector, causing losses of billions to the economy, said its Chairman Shahzada Alam here on Friday. An official said that grey traffic was causing over rupees three billion financial […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Government on Friday devised a policy framework making it compulsory for all the cellular operators to make proper documentation of their subscribers so that unregistered connections could not become security hazard. “The aim is to regularise more than 20 million subscribers’ data that is either inaccurate or not available and to make […]
KARACHI, Jan 25: The All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (Apnec) has expressed concern over the All Pakistan Newspapers Society’s statement on the working of the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (ITNE) and said that the tribunal was doing the work assigned to it. In a statement issued here on Friday, the Apnec leadership described the […]
The protesting journalists of the twin cities said that free media was required for free and fair polls and demanded repeal of two anti-press freedom ordinances implemented by President Pervez Musharraf. The journalists of the twin cities held a protest rally on Friday to mark the demands day at the call of the Pakistan Federal […]
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