Azam Ali KARACHI: About 80 leaders and members of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Punjab Bar Council (PbBC), and the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) will issue ‘Awami licences’ to Geo Super, the only sports channel of the country, and Aag, the youth channel, at a ceremony here today (Tuesday). Talking to The News, SCBA […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People`s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Q have reached an understanding over distribution of ministries and on the issue of new provinces and they are expected to sign an agreement to form an alliance at the Presidency next week, sources in the two parties told Dawn here on Monday. […]
NEW DELHI: Indian filmmaker and activist Mahesh Bhatt on Monday arrived in New Delhi to meet Pakistan’s former federal minister for human rights and Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International, Ansar Burney in New Delhi and discussed with him several issues, said a press release on Monday. Both Bhatt and Burney discussed the case of […]
By Imran Ali Teepu ISLAMABAD: Already fighting for its survival, the officials of Higher Education Commission (HEC) were on Monday left dazed by the discovery of a website with uncanny resemblance to its www.hec.gov.pk. Visited daily the www.hec.edu.pk also offers services similar to those highlighted on the commissionÂ’s website, which is browsed by thousands of […]
Zeeshan Azmat Karachi: At a seminar on ìNewspapers in the age of televisionî held at the Sir Shanawaz Bhutto Auditorium of the Sindh Madressatul Islam College (SMIC) on Monday, speakers expressed their views on the resilience of the print media in an era in which most people turn to information technology and television for their […]
Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the National Assembly on Monday continued its protest against the closure of the country’s first sports channel, ‘Geo Super’, and youths channel, ‘Aag’, and demanded that Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani intervene in the matter and reopen the channels. Even the government coalition partner, Fata parliamentary leader Munir […]
Karachi: Kaleem Ahmed, an accused involved in a rape case of a teenage girl confessed that he had killed Sonia after attempting to rape her due to fear. Ahmed was produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate South recorded his confessional statement under section 164 (power to record statements and confession) that he had killed […]
Usman Manzoor ISLAMABAD: While there is a hue and cry among NGOs and human rights activists against the Supreme Court judgment in Mukhtaran Mai’s case, there are a few who are ready to welcome the apex court’s decision saying that the courts are dispensing justice even when they are under pressure. One of them is […]
ISLAMABAD – Speakers at a seminar appreciated the positive role of media to generate public awareness addressing violence against women, and said that media is serving as catalyst in providing justice to the victims of gender violence. Mome Saleem from SDPI shared findings from her recently conducted research which highlighted that media played a very […]
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