PESHAWAR: The Taliban on Wednesday blew up two more girls’ schools in the provincial capital amid a security operation against the terrorists in the bordering area of FR Peshawar, police and locals said. The Taliban bombed five schools in a week’s time in the capital, spreading terror in the school-going children and their parents. Badha […]
By Khursheed Hyder KARACHI: A woman’s search for her child, who disappeared during the war in Bosnia, takes her to Germany when she discovers, 10 years later, that she is alive and living with adoptive parents there as her odyssey to get back her child begins. The film, Warchild, shown at the Goethe Institute on […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday expressed grief and sorrow over the death of former Business Recorder executive editor M Abul Akhyar. Appreciating the services of the late journalist, Prime Minister prayed to Allah Almighty to rest the departed soul in eternal peace. Source: Business Recorder Date:9/24/2010
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked a private television anchor to submit a recording, along with transcripts, of a talk show which alleged that thousands of containers containing prohibited and non-prohibited goods meant for Nato forces in Afghanistan did not reach the country during the past couple of years because of corruption in the […]
THE media has historically proved to be a multiplier of ideas for social change if we study global examples. Likewise the media in Pakistan can play a major role both in improving the overall state of development and addressing the poverty of ideas. Media can conduct in-depth investigative stories exposing faultiness in the model of […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said that all issues related to journalist community have been resolved amicably. Talking to the newsmen outside the Parliament House, he said “during a meeting of journalists’ representatives with the Prime Minister, modalities regarding the Journalist Victim Funds, health insurance, grant for the […]
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By Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: The torture and humiliation of Umar Cheema, correspondent of The News finally got the attention of the National Assembly through a call attention notice, where Interior Minister Rehman Malik assured the house that a joint investigation team (JIT) and a judicial commission were investigating the kidnapping and torture issue and those […]
THE media has historically proved to be a multiplier of ideas for social change if we study global examples. Likewise the media in Pakistan can play a major role both in improving the overall state of development and addressing the poverty of ideas. Media can conduct in-depth investigative stories exposing faultiness in the model of […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Giving rise to fresh fears of a possible confrontation between the government and judiciary, the law ministry sent to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday a summary suggesting that no case could be initiated against President Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts. Legal experts are of the opinion that […]
By Masood Haider NEW YORK: Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years of imprisonment by a US federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, after she was convicted of firing at US troops in Afghanistan while in their custody and other six charges brought against her. Her lawyers had requested a sentence of 12 […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern over the forced marriages of two minor girls on an order of a jirga and demanded stern action against the culprits. In a statement issued on Thursday, the HRCP observed that the holding of a jirga had already been declared illegal by the Sindh High […]
KARACHI: Four of the six militants who were involved in the armed raid on Pakistan?s Naval air base have been eliminated in the retaliatory operation by the security forces while two managed to escape, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said here Monday. He put the number of martyred armed forces personnel at 10 and the injured […]
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