ISLAMABAD: As if almost seeking a ban, members of the National Assembly (MNAs) on Wednesday warned the speaker that Indian films which had flooded the markets were corrupting the minds of the younger generation. “Children are now incorporating Indian words and terminologies in normal conversation,” complained MNA Tahira Aurangzeb who asked Culture Minister Pir Aftab […]
November 3 was one of the darkest days in the history of Pakistan when former military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf banned, through an ‘oral order’, all private news channels and some entertainment and sports channels as well against what he termed reaction to ‘irresponsible journalism’. Some of his own media managers were unaware of the […]
KARACHI: Lawmakers belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement led a walkout from the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday against problems being faced by the common man due to a hike in prices of essential commodities, petroleum products and electricity tariff. The joint opposition comprising legislators of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional and PML-Q also left the house […]
PESHAWAR: The three-member committee formed to probe the gang rape of two trainee nurses of the Khyber Teaching Hospital decided here Wednesday to expel the girls from the hostel for violation of rules. The hospital sources told The News that the girls (names withheld) were kidnapped from Saddar Bazaar in Peshawar where they had gone […]
By Latif Baloch KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution pertaining to the protection of rights of home-based working women, and recommended that a campaign be launched at the union council level to register such women “to make them empowered”. The resolution was moved by Provincial Minister for Women Development Tauqeer Fatima […]
SUKKUR: The education authorities have transferred men teachers of girls’ colleges and high schools in Sukkur region to other educational institutions. The education department of Sindh took the decision last week in the wake of an incident of the alleged criminal assault on a girl student by a lecturer in a girls’ college of Khairpur […]
KARACHI: The body of a six-year-old girl was found from a pool of water near Mausamiyat Chowk in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. SHO Saleemullah said Zaibunissa, daughter of Dawood, was missing since October 31, for which a report was registered at the Gulistan-e-Jauhar police station. There were no signs of physical violence or torture on the body of […]
SUKKUR: An elderly widow, who was handed over to her mother after her son branded her kari, has been missing for the last two days. Marium Gabole, wife of Ghulam Mohammad Gabole, told journalists in Mirpur Mathelo that her elder sister, Lal Khatoon, was accused of having illicit relations with a man, Manzoor, by her […]
Employer, a lawyer, has gone into hiding MULTAN: A 10-year-old girl, who worked as a maid at a lawyer’s house, sought refuge at a neighbour’s house on Tuesday night after being beaten for days by a witch doctor to free her from djinns’ possession. According to the child, Sara, her employee believed that she was […]
UNESCO to enhance new media capacity of Fatima Jinnah university RAWALPINDI: To strengthen the voice of Pakistani women through new media and online journalism, Unesco signed an MoU with Fatimah Jinnah Women University on Wednesday. The agreement stipulates that the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) will strengthen the new media capacity of […]
By Usman Manzoor and APP ISLAMABAD: Finally the government has made public the list of eleven handpicked journalists who have been allotted expensive plots in the federal capital, raising the eyebrows of many in media because these journalists were either far below in the waiting list for plot aspirants compiled by the Information Ministry or […]
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