ON the morning of August 14, I found the TV channels and service down due to load-shedding. As the day passed till the time of Iftar, I realised that during the whole day my father and my Dada found more time to devote to our family; I found myself spending more time reading useful educational […]
By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has given a clean chit to another 42 lawmakers taking the total number of those declared to be possessing genuine degrees to 289. Sources told Dawn that National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza, Federal Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin […]
By Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: Representatives of the four cable operators summoned by the Supreme Court on Tuesday gathered at Pemra headquarters in Sector G-8, Islamabad, on Monday night to devise a unanimous strategy for a common statement before the apex court bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday. Pemra sources […]
LAHORE: Shahdara Town police arrested two suspects on Monday a couple of hours after they strangled a woman after raping her in her house in Qaiser Town in Shahdara. The victim ‘Z’ was the wife of oil-tanker driver Imran and the mother of four. The Shahdara Town station house officer (SHO) told Dawn accused Shahid, […]
By Azizullah Sharif KARACHI: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Monday declared the results of the Higher Secondary School Certificate, part-II (science-pre-engineering and science general-computer groups) annual examination-2010. The overall pass percentage in the pre-engineering group improved to 54.39 as compared to last year’s 47.64 and also in the science general (computer) group […]
By Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: A sessions court on Monday ordered the registration of a case on the complaint of a woman who said she had been illegally detained at a police station and raped. The court issued the order to the Shahrah-i-Noor Jehan police station on an application filed by her under Section 22-A of […]
LAHORE: Well-known progressive writer and intellectual Dr Ayyub Mirza, father of Dr Amjad Mirza, passed away in Glasgow, Scotland on August 15. He was a key figure of the Democratic Students Federation (DSF), which led the student movement coordinated by the Inter-Collegiate Body (ICB) that shook the entire country and resulted in significant concessions for […]
* Kaira says registration meant to aid in transparent compensation of those affected by floods By Vidya Rana ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will start registration process in 74 flood-hit districts of the country to maintain the record of flood victims to be used for transparent compensation during the recovery, reconstruction and […]
* Data of family, friends being collected after shoe incident By Dilshad Azeem ISLAMABAD: The Presidency has gone harsh on the official media persons covering President Zardari, at home and on his foreign tours, in the aftermath of the leakage of shoe-throwing incident in Birmingham. “Relevant government departments and state-rimmedia entities involved in covering the […]
LAHORE – The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) office-bearers have demanded of the government to also include the representatives of this body and that of APNS and other journalists’ organisations in the National Commission (NC) for the flood affected people. CPNE President Khushnood Ali Khan and Secretary General Amir Mahmood, jointly stated Monday that […]
By Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi took a potshot at the media on Monday expressing his horror over the fact that transparency in aid utilisation had become such an issue domestically. “Everyone wants transparent use of the assistance. There can be no two views. But it is more under debate over […]
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