PESHAWAR, Jan 28: Following the threats of suicide attacks by unidentified persons, apparently militants, about 75 per cent transporters in the provincial capital removed cassette players and television sets from their vehicles on Monday. Some of the drivers had reportedly received threats from unidentified persons asking them to remove the music gadgets from their vehicles […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 28: A report prepared by the Centre for Media and Democracy, a Pakistani NGO, on pre-poll concerns and observations about the Feb 18 elections will be released in Islamabad on Feb 1, according to a decision taken at a meeting of the centre’s board of governors held here on Monday. The report is […]
All records of the Revenue Department of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) are being computerised under public-private partnership and in this regard a private company has been selected for maintaining the records and investing in new technology for the purpose, sources told The News. According to them, the cost of the new system is […]
KARACHI (PPI) – A three-member bench of Sindh High Court Monday dismissed two petitions of different candidates challenging the orders of Appellate Election Tribunal. The bench comprised of Chief justice Muhammad Afzal Soomro, Justice Mrs. Qaiser lqbal and Justice Mehmood Alam Rizvi. Imdad Ali Khan Sarki had approached SHC against the acceptance of the nomination […]
LONDON (NNI) – British Prime Minister Cordon Brown should tell visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that free and fair elections would be impossible without the full restoration of Pakistan’s judiciary, Human Rights Watch has said. Musharraf, in the United Kingdom on the last leg of his first foreign trip since the assassination of former Pakistani […]
LONDON (NNI) – British Prime Minister Cordon Brown should tell visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that free and fair elections would be impossible without the full restoration of Pakistan’s judiciary, Human Rights Watch has said. Musharraf, in the United Kingdom on the last leg of his first foreign trip since the assassination of former Pakistani […]
LAHORE – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has strongly condemned the, remarks of President Pervez Musharraf against the journalists and overseas Pakistanis, who have and are continuing to show their resentment over the arbitrary actions of the government. In a statement issued here on Monday, AHRC said the international media had criticized it by […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 28: Several journalists escaped unhurt when their vehicles came under fire from militants and security personnel on the Peshawar-Kohat highway near Darra Adamkhel. One of the vehicles was hit by four bullets. Saiful Islam Saifi and Syed Amir Ali Shah, both of Al Jazeera TV, and Mian Asif, of News One TV, managed […]
PESHAWAR: Four journalists escaped unharmed when they were fired at from two sides near the Kohat Tunnel in militancy-hit Darra Adamkhel town Monday. Among them was ‘The News’ photojournalist Mohammad Sajjad. “We had a narrow escape. Four bullets hit our car but somehow we survived,” he said upon reaching Peshawar. Other journalists in the car […]
ISLAMABAD: The family members of the abused and raped girl of Sahiwal, Shahnaz Akhtar, who has now been unchained and shifted to Darul Amaan, are planning to kill the girl whenever she would come out of her sanctuary, sources in Chak 84/5L, where the girl’s family resides, told The News. Shahnaz’s sister, Aafia, had met […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 : Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), has strongly condemned the remarks of President Pervez Musharraf against one of the most respect journalists of Pakistan and daily DAWN’s London correspondent Mr Ziauddin Ahmed, terming it “insult” to the entire community and demanded apology. ” Its most unforunate that head of the State […]
The elections of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists 2008 will be held at Rawalpindi Press Club on Wednesday. A meeting of the election committee was held on Tuesday in which it was decided that the polling will be held from 10:00a.m. to 7:00p.m. Nasir Zaidi, chairman election committee, presided over the meeting. As many as three […]
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of journalists and civil society members of twin cities staged a protest rally outside the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club camp office against threats given to senior journalist M. Ziauddin by President Pervez Musharraf in London. The participants of the rally were holding banners and placards inscribed with anti-government and anti-Musharraf slogans. They chanted slogans […]
WASHINGTON: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which is based in New York, said on Monday that President Pervez Musharraf’s remarks at a London conference in response to a question asked by a Pakistani journalist were “a chilling indicator of the Musharraf government’s real attitude towards the Pakistani media”. Bob Dietz, CPJ’s Asia programme coordinator, […]
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