By Imran Ali Teepu & Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: A police operation cleared the premises of Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) of the employees on strike, with conflicting versions about what started the clash here on Friday evening. The police said it arrested 25 of the employees on strike, accusing them of opening fire on them and […]
LAHORE: The South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) has condemned the manhandling of Hafiz Muhammad Imran, a reporter of Dunya TV, who filmed the notorious lynching of two brothers by a mob in Sialkot in the presence of the police on August 15. Some unidentified men assaulted him outside his residence in Ghauspura-Hajipura, dislocating his shoulder […]
LARKANA: A man killed three people, including his sister, niece and her niece’s alleged paramour on Friday in Wasayo Bhutto village in the Waris Dino Mashi area. Akbar Soomro shot dead Mureed Kosh, a police constable posted at Hassan Wahan police, on the suspicion of having illicit relations with his sister’s daughter, niece. After killing […]
AFTAB CHANNA KARACHI: The Sindh government is against the method of registering the flood affected people by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) in the province as at least 50 percent population of these areas does not have the Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs), it is learnt. The federal government had recently instructed the […]
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By Dr Riffat Hassan RECOGNITION of women’s rights in Islam was included in Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s reformist programme. He considered it a sign of decline and degeneration of the Muslim community of his time that it had not always had the political will to implement women’s God-given rights, including their right to equal opportunity […]
By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have agreed to jointly provide more aid to flood-hit Pakistan during the current fiscal year but both also insisted that the country needed to continue its economic reforms, officials said on Thursday. “In response to this (flood), I will ask the IMF Board […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has attributed Wednesday’s attacks on Shia processions to the continued failure of the state to confront the causes and perpetrators of extremism and violence in the country. In a statement issued on Thursday, the HRCP said, “The attacks on religious processions in Lahore and Karachi have once […]
By: Asma Ghani ISLAMABAD – According to a study conducted by National Commission on the Status of Women honour crimes are on the rise in two districts of Punjab and Sindh despite the enactment of law in 2004 to end women related crimes. NCSW in collaboration with National Rural Support Programme, Pakistan (NRSP) and Rozan […]
By Abrar Mustafa ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Information technology Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa has said that the PTCL management’s reluctance to give 50% salary raise to its regular employees is flagrant violation of the provisions of the Pakistan Telecommunication (re-organisation) Act, 1996 and covenants made in the Shareholders Agreement. In a letter […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has created a forum for placing reports on assessment of media in areas affected by the floods in Pakistan . The forum will enable persons and organisations to place reports relating to media that will be linked to the map of Pakistan. The map utilizes the Ushahidi, which is an online […]
PESHAWAR: The Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Borders asked the federal government and Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday to protect a private TV channel’s journalist, Imran Shehzad. Apparently, the 27-year-old journalist was targeted in Sialkot because his coverage of the execution of two brothers resulted in 17 people including police officers, being arrested on murder […]
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Wednesday sought time to file written reply in a petition challenging recent appointments of assistant general managers in the authority. Justice Sagheer Ahmed Qadri of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench put off the hearing in the petition of Khalid Mehmood and three others till September 8 after a […]
ON Aug 28 while working at a relief cell office established under a consortium of NGOs and the district government, Matiari, we came to learn that the body of a girl had been found near the office itself. We tried to get the footage of the body but could not do so because it had […]
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