LAHORE: The Principal of the Punjab University’s College of Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), Prof Dr Iftikhar Hussain Baloch, has been suspended on charges of harassing the female staff of the varsity. It is pertinent to mention here that the Muslim Town police had registered two cases against Dr Baloch on Monday for sexually harassing […]
By Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: Legislators have urged the National Assembly’s speaker to take serious note of spread of fatal diseases they believed were being caused by emission of radioactive waves and signals from mobile telephone towers installed in populated areas. Her colleagues echoed the same views when MNA Nuzhat Sadiq said the radiation emitting Base […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has directed the Ministry of Health to provide free medical treatment to all poor and old artists of the country. The prime minister in this regard approved the provision of free medical treatment to artists and artisans who are above 60 years of age and earning monthly income […]
Inquiry report to be submitted within fortnight ISLAMABAD: An inquiry commission constituted by the Ministry of Interior under Justice (r) Mian Muhammad Najumuz Zaman regarding alleged abduction and torture of a senior reporter of an English daily and a similar threat posed to another journalist, has completed its proceedings and the chairman has now left […]
By Anil Datta . Karachi: Intellect and freedom of thought are the lifeblood of a society and are imperative to progress. This was the consensus of the speakers who had gathered to pay tributes to the late Mansoor Saeed, a star in the intellectual firmament who crusaded for freedom of expression and liberated thinking as […]
Ishtiaq Ahmed A distinction must be made between making an argument for universal, non-discriminatory and inclusive human rights with the help of some Islamic moral and ethical principles and, on the other hand, creating an argument for an Islamic package of human rights which, despite all the rhetoric about universalism, remain culturally limited. Ahmed Ali […]
By Shamim-ur-Rahman KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday advised ministers belonging to the People’s Party to start preparations for local government elections, which would be held in the “not too distant future”. During a meeting with members of the Sindh cabinet belonging to PPP at the Bilawal House here, Mr Zardari directed the provincial […]
KARACHI: In a presentation entitled ‘Problems of Third Gender – The sociology of Transvestites in Sindh’, Human rights activist and writer of a book on the subject of transvestites, Akhter Baloch discussed their day-to-day life, customs and perception of the society towards them in an HRCP Karachi meeting. Welcoming participants of the meting, Syed Shamsuddin, […]
NAWABSHAH: Abdul Salam Lohrani, general secretary, People’s Lawyers Forum, who has been nominated in the gang-rape case of a teenage girl, has said that he has been implicated in the false case due to political reasons. Talking to Dawn on Monday, Mr Lohrani said that the FIR lodged by the father of the 13-year-old girl […]
Victim Sanam Baloch ISLAMABAD: “Is there anyone who cares for the poor?” sighed the father of a 16-year-old girl, Sanam, who was allegedly killed by her husband a year ago in Shikarpur. The girl was killed in the presence of her father, on the pretext of Karo-Kari (honour killing) last year during the month of […]
SHC orders arrest of kidnapper who kept woman in captivity for five months. SUKKUR: A judge has ordered the arrest of a man accused of kidnapping, raping and impregnating a woman who has just given birth to a baby girl. The suspect, Imran Shah, kept S, a resident of Rashdi Mohalla, Pir Jo Goth, in […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines Corporation served a legal notice upon a TV channel (not Aaj News) anchor for having uttered defamatory, false and libelous statements against the Corporation and its management representatives through his programme on October 21, 2010. The purpose behind the Legal Notice was to underline the manner in which the media […]
ISLAMABAD: After showing long patience, the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists has finally decided to hold a series of protest rallies against the “anti-media” policies of the incumbent regime. Continued killings and abductions of journalists all over Pakistan, baseless allegations leveled by some PPP leaders against senior journalists in the recent past and reports about upcoming […]
By: Shahid Rao RAWALPINDI — Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench Tuesday ordered Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to submit its written reply to a petition filed against the role of Pakistani media in criticising the Pakistani cricketers over the issue of betting in the test match. However, LHC judge Justice Syed Akhlaq Ahmed […]
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