By Imran Ahmad KARACHI: After a 17-hour battle of nerves with six terrorists, the Pakistan Navy invited journalists to a tour of PNS Mehran base. At around 5 pm on Monday, a group of journalists boarded a bus that took them around all the places they had been reporting on since Sunday night. As the […]
By Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: Few instrumentalists have enjoyed respect and admiration from music lovers and Ustad Raees Khan is one of them. When the organisers introduced him to his listeners on Tuesday night at a concert, they described him as a top grade sitar player. The flow of artistry in the raag based compositions seemed […]
ISLAMABAD: Two week long National Media Workshop Serial 4 started at National Defence University, Islamabad. Over seventy participants including eminent journalists, from all over the country alongwith some parliamentarians and persons from other segments of the society are participating in this workshop. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the importance of media as […]
Annie Sibtain Rizvi First there were the blasts and then there was a fierce battle. As the events of May 22, 2011 unfolded, the nation received an in depth account of the happenings at PNS Mehran Base, Karachi, due to the continuous reporting by the media. Fighting the militants, Lieutenant Yasir Abbas, Khalil-ur-Rehman, Javed Ahmed, […]
By Aakar Patel The writer is a director with Hill Road Media and a former editor of the Mumbai-based English newspaper Mid Day and the Gujarati paper Divya Bhaskar [email protected] The Pakistani’s uncomplicated view of the world is revealed in his Urdu press. A sample is available daily in the verse of Riaz urRehman Saghar, […]
SUKKUR: Two men allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in New Pind, Sukkur. The men kidnapped the class VI student as she left home to buy milk and took her to their home. After the assault, they dropped her on a main road and escaped. Rohri police found the girl and handed her over to the […]
ISLAMABAD: Last year’s historical flash floods in Pakistan not only brought the life of low-lying areas people to standstill but also deprived them of all belongings. This disaster left millions across the country jobless, hopeless and hapless. Among the worst victims, women of Pakistan were alone there to bear the brunt. Viewing this catastrophe, a […]
RAWALPINDI: A woman was strangled while her daughter-in-law was tortured by two men who stormed their house in Sadiqabad on Tuesday. Waqas Ali, son of the deceased, said the masked culprits entered his house and first tortured his wife, tied her arms and gagged her with the masking tape. Later they strangled his mother, Ms […]
LAHORE: A woman was poisoned allegedly by her mother-in-law and two brothers-in-law over a marriage dispute in Bhogilwal locality of Shalimar on Tuesday. Shalimar police SHO Shahid Ali said Sumaira, 19, was given some poisonous substance in juice allegedly by her mother-in-law Shaheen alias Billo because she was not happy with the year-long love marriage […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) was Tuesday informed by Additional Advocate General (AAG) that the Sindh Assembly (SA) had enacted the Sindh (Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language) (Application) Act 1972 to protect provincial language in the province. AAG Sarwar Khan made this statement during hearing of a constitutional petition seeking steps be […]
KARACHI— The APNS has expressed its heartfelt condolences to President Asif Ali Zardari on the sad demise of his illustrious father, Hakim Ali Zardari, who breathed his last after a protracted illness due to multiple organ failure. APNS President Hameed Haroon, Secretary-General Sarmad Ali, Joint Secretary Rameeza Majid Nizami, office-bearers and members of the Executive […]
LAHORE – Nawa-i-Waqt Business Manager Ch Iftikhar Ali died of cardiac arrest in the office on Tuesday. He was around 38. Later, the deceased was laid to rest at a local graveyard. The staff membrs of TheNation and Nawa-i-Waqt have expressed their shock and grief, and condoled with the bereaved family. Source: The Nation Date:5/25/2011
KARACHI – Pak Emirates Telecom & Wireless, in collaboration with PTCL have inaugurated their first franchise outlet at Makro Saddar. The collaboration will offer various sales and branding opportunities to telecom customers, says a press release. Pak Emirates Telecom and Wireless has entered an exclusive franchise agreement with PTCL to open one-stop shops at Makro […]
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