NAWABSHAH: A rape victim was attacked while going to hospital for a check-up in the vehicle of Women Crisis Centre along with their staff members. The incident took place in a village near Sakrand on Tuesday. Attackers couldn’t succeed in their mission and had to flee as people present in the vehicle began shouting for […]
Omar Bilal Akhtar Watching our local music channels on TV makes me want to find a blunt object and pay someone to slowly beat me to death with it. First of all, you can’t call them music channels at all — at best their shows can be described as ‘time spent between advertisements’. Now, for […]
UNITED NATIONS: The head of the UN agency tasked with upholding press freedom has condemned the killings of two Pakistani journalists and called upon the country to prosecute those behind the murders. Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, 39, a senior correspondent, was shot dead on Sept 16 as he left a mosque after offering evening prayers in […]
The Director-General of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned Tuesday the murders of two Pakistani journalists recently. “I condemn the killing of Misri Khan Orakzai and of Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui,” Irina Bokova said in a statement. Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, 39, was a senior correspondent for the newspaper Daily Pakistan. He was shot dead […]
PEER MUHAMMAD & QAMAR UZ ZAMAN ISLAMABAD: Seriously reacting over a false report on a private TV channel about the arrests of JUI chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman and Minister for Science and Technology Azam Khan Swati at Doha airport, the JUI Senators in the Upper House of the Parliament on Tuesday demanded of the government to […]
KARACHI: Awami National Party (ANP) Tuesday announced to boycott the forthcoming September 24th session of Sindh Assembly in protest against the government’s attitude towards October 17th by-elections. Addressing a crowded press conference at Mardan House, ANP Sindh Chapter President Shahi Syed said the postponed by-elections be conducted under Army supervision, as ANP had no confidence […]
BEIJING: China on Tuesday gave its firmest government confirmation yet of plans to build two new nuclear reactors for Pakistan, but a foreign ministry spokeswoman said she did not know about talks over a bigger reactor deal. The spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, said China planned to help Pakistan expand its Chashma nuclear energy complex in Punjab […]
By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court must have sent shivers down the spine of the NRO-tainted lot yet again on Tuesday. Reminding the nation that the National Reconciliation Ordinance had been struck down by it, the apex court ordered the National Accountability Bureau to take into custody former spymaster Brig (retd) Imtiaz Ahmed and […]
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