KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has carried out monitoring of billings of all cellular operators aimed at ensuring accuracy of charged rates with advertized rates. The results of the computerized experiment also showed that operators were giving benefit to their subscribers in most of the cases by charging lesser tariffs in comparison to their advertised […]
Abdul Rehman Afridi, editor of a local newspaper “Daily Sitara” in Jacobabad, and also vice president Jacobabad Press Club, in Sindh province was beaten up by five persons on September 8, allegedly for publishing news stories about mismanagement in distribution of relief material among flood affected people of the area by district government. Afridi said […]
By Syed Irfan Ashraf MILITANTS, the military and the media are three vital actors in Pakistan’s war theatre. While combatants on both sides possess the skills required to carry out their missions, untrained media professionals need to understand the rules of the game. In short, their welfare is at stake. “The year 2009-10 is the […]
QUETTA: The tribunal investigating the attack on the Sept 3 Al Quds day rally here has asked news organisations to provide names of journalists and cameramen present at the time of the blast. More than 60 people were killed in the attack. The tribunal comprising Balochistan High Court’s Chief Justice Qazi Faez Issa said the […]
Islamabad–Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday condemned the killing of President Hangu Union of Journalist Misri Khan Orakzai. Misri Khan was shot dead by the unknown miscreants in front of the Press Club building in Hangu early in the morning. The Minister termed it a heinous and despicable act of terrorism. […]
By Mazhar Tufail ISLAMABAD: The management of the state-run Television has apparently mislead Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani about the actual volume of the funds raised for for flood relief efforts through a six-day telethon, it was learnt here on Tuesday. “The state-run TV Managing Director Arshad Khan arranged a function before the meeting of […]
By Syed Irfan Ashraf MILITANTS, the military and the media are three vital actors in Pakistan’s war theatre. While combatants on both sides possess the skills required to carry out their missions, untrained media professionals need to understand the rules of the game. In short, their welfare is at stake. “The year 2009-10 is the […]
* Victim had one son out of marriage with former husband * Case registered against victim’s brother LAHORE: A young woman, who eloped with her former husband after her second marriage, was gunned down by her younger brother, as she returned home after spending a few days with him. Lower Mall police station duty officer […]
Karachi: Similar to other cases of forced conversions, a 13-year-old Hindu girl has gone missing after being allegedly abducted and converted, The News has learnt. The anguished father of the abducted girl, Poonam, suspects a newly-converted man and some influential locals of his neighborhood in Lyari into brainwashing the teenager to denounce her religion. “After […]
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