Karachi: Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo has said Dr Nabi Bakhsh Baloch was one of the unique personalities who had worked in folklore, literature, linguistic, education, history, civilization and culture. Palijo said Dr Baloch had also done unique research and revealed through his work important knowledge to enlighten the generations to come. This she observed […]
SIALKOT – The Regional Directorate of Radio Pakistan, bureau office of Pakistan Television (PTV), regional directorate office of Press Information Department (PID) and bureau office of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) would be established at Sialkot and would start functioning next week. These offices have been established at Sialkot for strengthening the Sialkot-based electronic and […]
SUKKUR: Five people, including two women, were killed on Tuesday on charges of Karo Kari, police said. In Miani village, accused Abdul Rehman Mirani shot his wife Azit Khatoon and his sister-in-law Shama dead over alleged illicit relations. In a separate incident in Kamber, Soomar Bhatti shot his niece Sardara and her alleged paramour Ramazan […]
By Manzoor Ali Four others are being investigated on charges of harassing female students. PESHAWAR: The University of Peshawar (UoP) suspended a lecturer following initial investigations into sexual harassment charges leveled by female students, sources said. They told The Express Tribune that a teacher of the university’s history department, was suspended, while investigations against four […]
CHISHTIAN – Three persons including a girl who contracted free will marriage were killed and five other including husband of the girl were injured when relatives of the girl, who were angry over her love marriage, opened fire at them. According to detail, Sajida Parveen, a residence of Chak-114/Murad, daughter of agriculturist late M Abdullah […]
By Ali Hassan ISLAMABAD: Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Akmal Khan ordered Station House Officer (SHO) Industrial Area Police Station to register a First Information Report (FIR) of a case in which two persons managed to abduct a girl and sexually assaulted her. Balqees Akhtar, mother of the girl, filed an application with court on Tuesday […]
By Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: Two teenage sisters were allegedly gang raped by five men in their house in Gulzar-i-Quaid on Monday, police said. The investigating officer (IO) told Dawn that the sisters, aged 15 and 17, have identified two of the rapists. “They had no link or relation with the girls. They were gangsters and […]
By Aamir Yasin ISLAMABAD: Norwegian and Pakistani musicians here on Monday night enthralled the audience by their lively tunes and songs. The musicians from the two countries performed at `Fusion in the evening` at the open air theatre of Lok Virsa. The function was jointly organised by Norwegian embassy and Lok Virsa`s Rafipeer Theatre in […]
Zubeida Mustafa THIS paper reported last Saturday that during the in camera briefing to legislators, the DG ISI offered to resign if parliament so wished. He should simply have submitted his resignation when he reportedly admitted that an intelligence failure had taken place. Prima facie, this was inefficiency at its worst. But what about wilful […]
By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed four bills into law, and through a resolution criticised the Lahore High Court verdict asking President Asif Ali Zardari to quit as party head and stop using the presidency for political purposes. The assembly unanimously passed the Sindh Protection of Human Rights Bill, 2011, […]
KARACHI: A weeklong exercise by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to seek public opinion through a referendum on evolving a national consensus to safeguard the country`s sovereignty and integrity following the May 2 operation in Abbotabad by US commandos concluded on Tuesday night. The MQM arranged a visit by newsmen to various `referendum camps` set […]
ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari administered oath to Senator Dr Asim Hussain as the federal minister for petroleum and natural resources in a bid to resolve prevailing acute energy shortage in the country. Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa, Secretary General M Salman Faruqui, Minister of State for Communication Chaudhry Imtiaz […]
BEIJING: China has asked the United States to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty, understand its problems, address its concerns and acknowledge the sacrifices rendered by it in the war against terror. During a meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani here Wednesday, Chinese Premier Wen Jibao said he had taken up the matter with US officials during […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday intra-court appeals of six judges against contempt notices issued to them for taking oath under a Musharraf-era Provisional Constitution Order and ordered the government to de-notify five of them who are still part of the judiciary but are dysfunctional. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who heads a six-judge […]
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