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Daily Archives: May 19, 2011

Chinese media team visits Mazar-i-Quaid

Karachi: A 20-member Chinese media delegation led by Vice-President China Radio International Wang Dongmei on Wednesday visited the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to pay homage to the Founder of Pakistan. They laid a floral wreath and stood silent for some time as a mark of respect. The leader of the delegation also recorded […]


Journalist killed

KHAIRPUR, May 18: Journalist of a Sindhi daily and cameraman of a private TV channel, Mohram Ali Shaikh, was killed in Rahooja town on Tuesday night. Mohram Ali was going in the house from his Autaq at about 11 pm when some armed men opened fire on him, injuring him seriously. He died in the […]


APML issues legal notice to British newspaper for apology

LAHORE: Pervez Musharraf’s party, All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), has served a legal notice of $5 million to the British newspaper The Guardian over the allegations it levelled against the party and its head that were published in the paper on May 9. According to text of the legal notice, it was claimed that the […]


Cool it, military tells media persons

ISLAMABAD: Top military commanders believe that the Pakistan Army can easily live without the US military aid but is not yet ready to go on the warpath with America, it has been learnt. Whether or not it follows the will of the people, as has been unanimously reflected through a resolution by parliament, is not […]


PEMRA team raids illegal FM radio station

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) enforcement team raided an illegal FM radio station being run by the National Highways Authority (NHA) in violation of PEMRA Laws in Peshawar on Wednesday. The illegal radio station was operating from the Islamabad — Peshawar Motorway (M-1) by the NHA. The PEMRA enforcement team impounded all […]


Three killed for honour

QUETTA – Three people including a woman were killed in the name of honour in Mastung and Jaffarabad towns of Balochistan in two separate incidents on Wednesday. In the first incident, unidentified people killed a woman and her alleged paramour in Mastung and escaped from the site after committing the crime. Police moved the deceased […]


HRFP’s Sindh Committee announced

KARACHI: Amanullah Parache, central president of the Human Rights Foundation of Pakistan (HRFP), has announced the Sindh Committee of the foundation. The announcement has named Dr Furqan Ahmed as president of the Sindh Committee, Ather Alam Jamali as general secretary, Masood Akhtar as joint secretary, Muhammad Imran as information secretary, Ghulam Mustafa Rajput as legal […]


Move to tax cinemas ‘thriving’ on Indian movies

KARACHI, May 18: The screening of Indian films might have brought some windfall for the owners of local cinemas, but it has also attracted the attention of the relevant provincial authorities exploring new avenues of tax collection, it emerged on Wednesday.. The Sindh excise and taxation department has requested the government to allow collection of […]