Karachi: In continuation of its efforts to facilitate the student community in Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has launched a new package of its broadband service, in addition to its existing Broadband student basic package. The newly launched broadband student bundle package includes 1Mbps broadband connectivity with unlimited downloads, 150 free voice minutes […]
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh accused the members of a Senate committee on Monday of having a tendency to reject taxes that could be imposed on them and proposing others that did not affect them. Speaking at the end of the first day of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance’s meeting on the draft […]
LAHORE: THE Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has termed the killing of six missing persons whose bodies were found from different parts of Balochistan during Eid days appalling. A statement issued by the commission on Monday said: “The killing of six missing persons from Balochistan, whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in Turbat, Mastung, Khuzdar […]
LARKANA: A woman, Tajul Khatoon Tunio, of the town of Laloo Rounk has alleged her husband Dhani Bakhsh Khaskheli for selling four daughters in gambling. Talking to journalists outside the press club here on Monday, along with her daughters and brother Ahmed Ali, she said that her husband, who was a gambler and drug addict, […]
By: Jam Sajjad Hussain LAHORE – Despite the tall claims made by the police department and other law enforcement agencies to curb the criminal gangs, crimes have shot up across the province during the first 10 months of 2010 as compared to last year. The data (from January to October 2010) furnished by an anonymous […]
LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Ameer Ahmed Khan on Monday acquitted Ch Naeem, advocate, of the charges of killing 12-year-old maid Shazia Masih as the prosecution failed to prove the charges against him. The court also acquitted Naeem’s son Haris and wife Ghazala Naeem. Amanat, who was accused of taking Shazia to the advocate’s […]
LAHORE: THE Lahore High Court on Monday adjourned the hearing by winter vacation on a petition seeking permanent ban on access to Facebook, a social networking website, in Pakistan. Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry deferred proceedings after the Foreign Ministry submitted a reply. The judge held that the government should take up this issue at all […]
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has rebutted a news item published in The News on Sunday regarding objections raised by Pemra’s Finance Wing on new appointments. “Pemra out rightly denies any such incident and further declares the story baseless and concocted. It has been clarified by the Pemra spokesman Abdul Basit Khan […]
By Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The artiste community in Pakistan has always been a fragmented one. When making films was not as frivolous and vapid an exercise as it is today (by and large), performing artistes were divided into categories that belonged to the realms of film, radio, theatre and later on television. Then television became […]
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