THATTA: The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will start on Wednesday the process of identifying flood affected people in 298 Dehs of Thatta district and issuing Rs20,000 compensation cheque to each family to help them meet their expenses. At a press conference on Sunday, DCO Thatta Manzoor Ali Shaikh said that on the basis […]
Two media staffers were killed and seven others were injured in a suicide attack on September 3 on a procession in Quetta, the capital city of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. At least 64 people were killed and over 160 injured in the blast. The procession was organised by the Shiite, Imamia Students’ Organisation to mark […]
By Hajrah Mumtaz THE country’s love/ hate relationship with the media continues. During the flood crisis, sections of the media have been praised for bringing out the scale and scope of the disaster. In numerous cases, journalists showed considerable dedication in penetrating areas where transport and infrastructural facilities had simply been washed away, thus making […]
The bombing of the Al Quds day rally in Quetta on Friday left scores of people dead. Amongst the many injured were seven journalists from various news organisations, highlighting once again the fact that reporting is an increasingly dangerous job in Pakistan. Of the injured newsmen, it is unclear who received injuries in the blast […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Sunday strongly condemned the abduction and torture of a senior journalist Omer Cheema by unknown persons on Saturday in Islamabad. At an emergency meeting of PFUJ held with its President Shaukat Pervez in the chair demanded of the Chief of Army Staff to intervene into the matter […]
LAHORE: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairperson Asma Jehangir has said the serious allegations leveled by a journalist of kidnapping by unknown persons must be fully investigated. According to a press release, she said: “The description of abductors and the hurling of abusive and threatening language make it abundantly clear that the perpetrators were government […]
KARACHI: frustrated lover slaughtered a teenage girl when she refused to marry him. The incident occurred in slum areas of Dhoraji Colony in the remits of Bahadurabad police station on Sunday. SHO Mohsin Haider said the victim 14-year-old Zahida, daughter of Gamma, was alone in home, when neighbour Abdul Sattar entered there and slaughtered her […]
KARACHI: A teenage girl was stabbed to death in a Bahadurabad street on Sunday, police said. They added that 14-year-old Zahida, daughter of Ghulam Mohammad, used to work along with her mother as a housemaid at a few houses in the locality. “She was stabbed repeatedly outside one of the houses where she used to […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: In an honour-related triple murder case, a couple and another person were killed whereas two others including an infant received serious injuries at Muryali area here on Sunday, police said. The couple — Ijaz Kanera and his wife Ghazala — had contracted love marriage against the wishes of the family of the […]
By Huma Yusuf The Sialkot lynching has by now become emblematic of the failure of the Pakistani state to serve and protect its citizens. The brutal images of mob justice may have left our television screens, but the nightmare continues: the prime accused SHO of the concerned Sialkot police station is said to have fled. […]
By Huma Yusuf The Sialkot lynching has by now become emblematic of the failure of the Pakistani state to serve and protect its citizens. The brutal images of mob justice may have left our television screens, but the nightmare continues: the prime accused SHO of the concerned Sialkot police station is said to have fled. […]
By Razzak Abro KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet has given approval of figure about the estimated losses of Rs 446.8 billion the province has faced due to the current floods, which would be presented at a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) scheduled to be held in Islamabad on Monday. The special meeting chaired […]
PESHAWAR: A primary school for girls was blown up in Kalam late Friday night, the first such instance after Operation Rah-e-Raast concluded in the Swat Valley more than a year ago. Sources said that the school was blown up by unidentified people who set dynamite on the outer walls. The school’s building and three rooms […]
LAHORE: A cellular company has offered technical and financial assistance to help rehabilitate the Punjab Education Foundation’s partner schools damaged by floods so that students could resume their education without any delay. Cellular company’s public affairs manager (North), Pakistan, Syed Nasir Imam Bukhari, called on PEF managing director Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani at his office on […]
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