SUKKUR: A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her sister’s husband in Rahuja village on Saturday within the jurisdiction of Site police station. According to the victim’s father, T was alone in the house and the rest of the family was visiting their next-door neighbours. While T was asleep, the accused H came into the […]
KARACHI: Bullet-riddled bodies of a divorced woman and her mother were recovered from their house in Qaimkhani Colony, the Mochko police said on Saturday. The deceased women were identified as 27-year-old Uzma and her 55-year-old mother Raeesa. According to Raeesa’s handicapped husband Ahmed Khan, Khush Dil Khan Niazi attempted to rape Uzma and when she […]
SUKKUR: The bodies of a couple were found in the fields near a village, the police said on Saturday. Sources in police said the couple, Rafiq Mughul and Marvi of village Pir Muhammad Kerio of Sanghar, was missing and their bodies, riddled with bullets and torture marks, were found on Friday from agricultural land. Source: […]
By Gwynne Dyer THE media in the Middle East carries a lot of Middle Eastern stories, of course, but why does most of the other media in the world do the same? The Asian media strikes a better balance, but the western media, and any other media that basically follows the American news agenda, focuses […]
KARACHI: The Jang Group has been blackmailing the government to evade taxes, Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (CAP) Chairman Khalid Arian claimed on Saturday. Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, Arian alleged that the group embezzled Rs 2 billion with the help of two officials of the National Bank of Pakistan. He […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has condemned the torture allegedly committed by Lahore Development Authority’s (LDA) security guards on a private news channel team and demanded immediate arrest of all those responsible for the incident. According to reports the LDA security guards misbehaved, manhandled and inflicted torture on a team of ‘Dunya […]
MUZAFFARABAD: Glowing tributes were paid to veteran journalist and Editor Nawa-i-Waqt, Majid Nizami, for his 60-year services for safeguarding the true values of journalism in the country. At a ceremony held at the Nawa-i-Waqt office here on Saturday, various speakers called Majid Nizami the custodian of the Ideology of Pakistan, pride of journalism and a […]
Ghazi Salahuddin When advocates of the Supreme Court cast their votes on Wednesday to elect the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and other office-bearers, almost all the concerned citizens of this country held their breath — and waited in suspense for the final count. There was this frenzied, live coverage by the news […]
By Gwynne Dyer THE media in the Middle East carries a lot of Middle Eastern stories, of course, but why does most of the other media in the world do the same? The Asian media strikes a better balance, but the western media, and any other media that basically follows the American news agenda, focuses […]
By Fasahat Mohiuddin KARACHI: The Muttahida Muslim League, an alliance of four League factions, has been formed under the chairmanship of Pir Pagara. The parties that formed the alliance were PML (F), PML (like-minded), PML(Z) and PML(Awami). PML (F) chief Pir Sahib Pagara announced the formation of the alliance at a large gathering of Muslim […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday passed a bill into law to establish a modern city to be known as Zulfikarabad in district Thatta. “The Zulfikarabad Development Authority Bill 2010” will make the way to construct new city, which will decrease the increasing burden on large cities of the province. After disposing of other items […]
PESHAWAR: Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan of Peshawar High Court has ordered compulsory retirement of five judicial officers — three district and sessions judges (DSJs) and two additional district and sessions judges (ADSJs) – after charges of corruption were proved against them. The CJ issued the orders on Friday after accepting recommendations of the Authorised […]
KARACHI: An aged woman and her widow daughter were gunned down in Qaimkhani Colony on Friday night allegedly by a family friend after she turned down a marriage proposal for the latter, police said. They said the firing incident occurred inside the home of Raeesa Khatoon, where the accused Khush Dil jumped in with an […]
SANGHAR: A man and woman were killed on the pretext of karo-kari near Mian Pir Mohammad village in the Perumal area late Thursday night. Villager Mohammad Yousuf Kundhani surrendered at the Perumal police station and confessed that he had killed his sister Marvi and a man, Rafiq Mughal, as he saw them in compromising position […]
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