PESHAWAR: Taliban bombed a girls’ school on Saturday in Peshawar. Terrorists planted explosives around the Iqra Rozatul Atfal Girls’ School, situated at Charkhakhel area of Peshawar, which went off around 1:40am. Police said that the blast damaged the walls, rooms and windowpanes of the school. However, the watchman of the school, who was present there […]
By Bakhtawar Mian ISLAMABAD: The National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) has issued ‘Watan cards’ to more than 20,000 flood-affected families, enabling them to get their share from relief funds, according to a senior official of the authority. Similarly, it has issued about 50,000 Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to the affectees who lost their cards […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Limited (PTCL) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Waleed Irshad called on Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Saturday and presented a cheque of Rs five million on behalf of his department for the relief and rehabilitation of flood affectees, said an official. The chief minister lauded the humanitarian spirit of […]
By: Munir Ahmed ISLAMABAD — No one dared to avail well known film star and singer Shahida Mini’s stirring open offer to dance with her or even to shake hand with her Friday night at a musical arranged by the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA). The opportunity was valid for only those who […]
ISLAMABAD:The fans of the most popular legendary Pakistani classical/ghazal singer Ustad Amanat Ali Khan observed his 36th death anniversary on Saturday.He was honoured with the ‘Pride of Performance’ award by the government of Pakistan. He stands with great singing icons like Mehdi Hassan and Ahmed Rushdi,a private channel reported. Amanat Ali Khan was born in […]
Ayesha Sidiqa The treatment met by journalist Umer Cheema is condemnable and worrying. However, it also calls for introspection about whether journalists themselves may be contributing to the threat from agencies by becoming willing collaborators. The world of journalism today is a doggy-dog world in which careers are made or destroyed on the basis of […]
BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur Union of Journalists (BhUJ) general body meeting on Saturday unanimously condemned the protesting students of the Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, who have threatened The News and Geo correspondent in Bahawalpur, Muhammad Ameen Abbasi. They students conveyed threats through phone calls and text messages. The BhUJ meeting, held under Muhammad Ameen Abbasi, President, […]
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo motu notice on a news item published in a newspaper dated September 17 regarding an alleged brutal murder of a factory owner after a road accident. Reportedly one Tariq Mehmood was on his way to home from his factory when he met an […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued contempt notice to SHO Sohrab Goth police station for wilful non-compliance of court order in a case pertaining to the harassment of a freewill couple. Petitioner Tehmina Shamim, resident of district Naushero Feroze, moved court against harassment by SHO Sohrab Goth. Advocate Nasir Mughal submitted petitioner Tehmina left […]
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