By Abrar Mustafa ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Information technology Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa has said that the PTCL management’s reluctance to give 50% salary raise to its regular employees is flagrant violation of the provisions of the Pakistan Telecommunication (re-organisation) Act, 1996 and covenants made in the Shareholders Agreement. In a letter […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has created a forum for placing reports on assessment of media in areas affected by the floods in Pakistan . The forum will enable persons and organisations to place reports relating to media that will be linked to the map of Pakistan. The map utilizes the Ushahidi, which is an online […]
PESHAWAR: The Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Borders asked the federal government and Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday to protect a private TV channel’s journalist, Imran Shehzad. Apparently, the 27-year-old journalist was targeted in Sialkot because his coverage of the execution of two brothers resulted in 17 people including police officers, being arrested on murder […]
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Wednesday sought time to file written reply in a petition challenging recent appointments of assistant general managers in the authority. Justice Sagheer Ahmed Qadri of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench put off the hearing in the petition of Khalid Mehmood and three others till September 8 after a […]
ON Aug 28 while working at a relief cell office established under a consortium of NGOs and the district government, Matiari, we came to learn that the body of a girl had been found near the office itself. We tried to get the footage of the body but could not do so because it had […]
LAHORE: Labour & Human Resource Department is providing free educational facilities to 28,000 workers’ children through a network of 38 Workers Welfare Schools situated in the 19 districts of the province. It now has also planned to provide free quality education to the workers children through partner schools in six more districts where Workers Schools […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday appointed DIG Bashir Memon as inquiry officer for the reinvestigation of the kidnapping case of a 17-year-old maid and directed him to submit a report in court within 15 days. A division bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam was seized with the hearing of a petition of Allah […]
KARACHI: A young mother of a six-month-old girl was burnt to death allegedly by her husband and a brother-in-law in the early hours of Wednesday in North Karachi, police said. They said that 20-year-old Bushra died in suspicious circumstances and initial investigation suggested that her husband and brother-in-law could be behind her death. “It was […]
NAWABSHAH: Two teenaged sisters were shot dead by their brothers on Wednesday over a matrimonial dispute in Shahpur Jehanian. The two brothers, Allah Bughio and Aijaz Bughio, killed their sisters Ms Noorjehan, 17, and Ms Zohra, 15, as the girls were not willing to break their engagements though they were engaged to the men of […]
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