• November 27, 2010
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ISLAMABAD: Realizing the importance of transparency in governance and right to information legislation, Individualland- a nonprofit organization held a roundtable seminar on Friday, to promote a healthy debate that can yield positive results. Participants from number of different organizations like Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA), National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Development Assistance […]

• November 27, 2010
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Praful Bidwai As a gigantic scam over allocation of 2nd generation (2G) telecom spectrum for mobile telephony reverberates in India, two magazines (Outlook and Open) have made disclosures about another related scandal involving the media. They have reproduced partial transcripts of certain telephone conversations between Nira Radia, a powerful lobbyist for the Tata and Mukesh […]

• November 27, 2010
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PAKISTAN has a high incidence of honour killing in the world. This is a major human rights issue that has received little attention outside of human rights groups and women activist networks. Since the late 1970s, aspects of traditional justice have been incorporated in the Pakistan Penal Code, thereby sanctioning homicide of men and women […]

• November 27, 2010
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THIS is apropos of the letter ‘Promoting Sufi music’ (Nov 15). There are two views about music in Islam. Some consider it to be unlawful. But Sufis have taken the other view and consider it as a means of reaching God. The question arises: what is it in music which acts as a vehicle between […]

• November 27, 2010
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LAHORE: CIA SP Umer Virk has got registered cases against 10 agency officials with Naulakha and Nawankot police stations for embezzling valuables seized from suspects. Those who have been booked are inspector Azhar Saqib, sub-inspectors Muhammad Khalid, Saeed Anwar, Muhammad Aslam, Miraj Din, Maqsood Hayyat and Mazhar Iqbal and assistant sub-inspectors Faqir Hussain, Farzand Ali […]

• November 27, 2010
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Lahore: He said the marchers would not be allowed to enter the provincial metropolis and hold any meeting outside Data Darbar. He said the activity was also unjustified as the provincial government had already accepted all demands except banning Raiwind congregation of a certain sect (and the one regarding resignation of the Punjab law minister) […]

• November 27, 2010
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By Muhammad Anis ISLAMABAD: The Upper House on Friday adopted recommendations on the RGST of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue amid loud protests and accusations against the Senate Chairman Farooq H Naek for bulldozing the process. The PML-Q senators also staged a critical walkout just seconds before the chairman put the motion […]

• November 27, 2010
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SIALKOT: Business community engaged with musical instruments industry seeks government’s special attention and support for the modernisation and upgradation of the industry and demanded special incentives and concessions for enhancing export of musical instruments. More than hundred year old musical instrument industry of Sialkot was totally ignored by the concerned authorities and no steps have […]

• November 27, 2010
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By Sohail Afzal KARACHI: The imposition of Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) will further hike the prices of more than 550 items. According to sources, after the imposition of RGST, hundreds of things, which remained exempted from the sales tax so far, will come under the tax net. The products and commodities which will come […]

• November 27, 2010
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DADU: A girl committed suicide by shooting herself with a pistol here on Friday amid reports she was heartbroken after her lover jilted her and her nude clips were found on the Internet. The 22-year-old college student who worked with a local NGO as lady health worker suddenly lost all interest in life after the […]

• November 27, 2010
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Jamila Achakzai Islamabad: The country has laws to protect women from violence, but they appear of little help to the fair sex, whose vulnerability to excesses by men in the male-dominated society has refused to recede. Enough to confirm this view are the figures compiled by ‘The Madadgaar Helpline’, which reports the killing of 1,195 […]

• November 27, 2010
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LANDI KOTAL/ GHALANAI: Militants blew up two more schools in Khyber and Mohmand agencies late on Thursday night. Residents of Khugakhel area of Landi Kotal told Dawn that unidentified militants planted huge quantity of explosives inside the Meera Khan Kali Government Girls Primary School which exploded with a big bang. The explosion destroyed parts of […]

• November 27, 2010
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KARACHI: Akhtar Adil Razwy, a former assistant editor of Dawn and editor of its sister publication Evening Star, died in Karachi on Friday morning. He was 88. Because he led a disciplined life, he had no medical problems normally associated with the people of his age. After a fall in his Gulshan-i-Iqbal home, he became […]