ISLAMABAD: Malik Muhammad Iqbal on Friday assumed the charge of director-general Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). He has replaced Waseem Ahmed who resigned recently to avert a possible row between the judiciary and the executive over his contractual job. After taking over as the FIA chief, Mr Iqbal was briefed about the main cases being investigated […]
ISLAMABAD: A local court on Friday granted bail to a driver and guard of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), booked by Rawalpindi police on the charges of issuing fake national identity cards. The Special Judge Central, Rawalpindi Sohail Nasir after hearing plea of the Nadra officials granted bail to the driver and guard of […]
ISLAMABAD: Continuing its vicious persecution campaign against the Jang and Geo Group, Pemra has now asked cable operators to shut down another Geo channel, Aag TV. These Pemra orders were given verbally to cable operators to close the youth channel of Geo, which had planned to show the IPL cricket matches to the cricket loving […]
Karachi: Administrative Judge of Anti Terrorism Courts in Karachi remanded five suspects to police custody in Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar murder case. Mohammad Shahrukh, 22, Faisal Mehmood, 43, Mohammad Shakeel, 42, Syed Tahir Naveed Shah, 32, and Syed Mohammad Ali Rizvi, 38, were produced before Administrative Judge Justice Maqbool Baqar for obtaining their […]
Karachi: Provincial General Secretary PPP and Sindh government’s media coordinator Taj Haider said that he has relinquished media coordination as the incumbent Information Minister Sharjeel Memon would be dealing the same. He, however, said that he would continue to work as coordinator of the provincial government for dealing with a host of issues ranging from […]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said the democratic government firmly believes in freedom of the press and always takes criticism as a feedback to its actions. Talking to a delegation of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), which called on him here, he said that effective steps were being taken to provide […]
PARIS: The respected worldwide defender of press freedoms, Reporters Without Borders has strongly condemned the ban imposed by the PPP government on Geo Super. In a statement RSF said: “The operations of the opposition Geo TV Network’s profitable sports channel, Geo Super, have been suspended in Pakistan on the orders of the Pakistan Electronic Media […]
Muhammad Anis ISLAMABAD: Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Friday came hard on the federal government for victimisation of Jang Group and closure of Geo Super. Talking to media persons here at his chamber in the Parliament House, Chaudhry Nisar said his party would raise the issue of victimisation […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist (PFUJ) Friday expressed its gratitude to President Asif Ali Zardari for constituting the eighth wage board award and several other directives for the welfare of the thousands of journalists across the country.The president ordered the constitution of 8th wage board award following the meeting of PFUJ delegation that called […]
Karachi: The author of several collections of poetry and prose, Dr Ashfaq Hussain, who recently got the ‘Pride of Performance’ award, was honoured at the Arts Council of Pakistan where prominent writers paid him glowing tributes for his works. The function, ‘An evening with Dr Ashfaq Hussain’, where speakers like Iftikhhar Arif, Mehmood Shaam, Shahida […]
Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: Senior Diaspora Baloch leaders have protested that a well-planned propaganda campaign was being run by the Pakistan government to malign their secular causes before the international community. After a recent news report alleged that the recent successive attacks on Pakistan Navy buses in Karachi have come as a result of a […]
Rana Ghulam Qadir ISLAMABAD: Following rejection of the state-run television’s appeal against the decision of Lahore High Court by the Supreme Court, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) served a legal notice on the PTV to pay Rs29 million under the head of property tax. Director Revenue CDA Malik Muhammad Iqbal told this scribe that the […]
LAHORE: Civil Lines police have registered a case against a media group head and his daughter for allegedly committing a fraud of Rs90 million with the Bank of Punjab. The FIR was lodged on the orders of a local court under sections 406 and 420 of the Pakistan Penal Code on Thursday. Bank of Punjab […]
KARACHI: Representatives of home-based workers from all over the country as well as from India and Nepal will participate in the first convention of the Home-based Women Workers Federation being organised at the Arts Council on Monday. Speaking at a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Friday, HBWWF General Secretary Zehra Khan said that […]
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