LAHORE: A CIA police team on Thursday arrested a man and his former wife and recovered two minor girls they had allegedly kidnapped from different areas of the city. One of the girls was allegedly kidnapped from Children’s Hospital while the other from Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park, Lahore, around a year ago. SSP (Investigation) Abdur Razzaq Cheema […]
Summary Urdu Newsletter May 27 To June 02, 2011 Date 5/27/2011 Download ppf newsletter vol 9 no-21.pdf
By Anwar Abbas “[IN matters of civilised behaviour] women have the same rights over men as men have over women” – Al Quran (2:228). The Arabs of the ‘age of ignorance’ often indulged in infanticide of girls. Even a woman in a marriage was not held as an equal companion who participated in the life […]
Karachi: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved on Thursday nearly 50 projects, including nine worth about Rs95 billion for Sindh. The projects were accorded approval at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Federal Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Shaikh. A Sindh delegation comprising Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah, Adviser to the […]
By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD: The government has finalised a consolidated budget of Rs3.854 trillion for the next financial year, envisaging a revenue of Rs2.787 trillion, fiscal deficit of Rs912 billion and provincial transfers of Rs1.224 trillion. The budgetary allocations indicate that current expenditures of most of the federal ministries will be frozen at the level […]
LAHORE: Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Tim George launched his Pakistan–Australia Business Forum (PABF) website here on Thursday. He said the website, www.pabf.com.pk, would help the PABF to reach out to new members and would highlight the potential which existed for trade and investment between Australia and Pakistan. He said he had taken a personal […]
By Muhammad Yasir KARACHI: The cellular users will be held responsible under law if the subscription under his or her name is used in punishable offence. They are liable to block the SIM within 24 hours through the concerned operators if it is lost or stolen. Pakistan Telecommuni-cation Authority (PTA) stated in its recently issued […]
Qaisar Satti/Waqas Minhas RAWALPINDI: Players of cricket and hockey organizations, hailing from Rawalpindi and Islamabad, will hold demonstration against Pemra and the government here today (Friday) against curbs on Geo Super. Announcing about the demonstration, Masood Anwar, Ustad Aziz, Zahir Shah, Iftikar Sain, Waseem Ahmad and Asif Bajwa said a number of clubs would participate […]
Islamabad–Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) will organize Science Media Forum to brief the journalists about achievements, ongoing activities of PSF and its subsidiary organizations, here on Thursday. Chairman PSF will brief the media representatives, which will eventually help in the mass awareness about PSF activities. Talking to APP Spokesperson PSF Rehana Batool said the main objective […]
Says media perception of Pak-US ties does not match ground realities Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: The US ambassador has conceded that Pakistan suffered the loss of precious personnel and two exceptionally prized Orion 3 PC multi-role naval planes in the attack on Mehran Base in Karachi Sunday evening due to its frontline role in the […]
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] More than newspapers, news television knows the popular mind. This is because it responds to daily ratings and can calibrate pitch and tone accordingly. What […]
RAWALPINDI: Traders of Rawalpindi have announced that if the chief justice of Pakistan can be got restored, they would also get the transmission of Geo Super restored. “The injustice with the Jang and Geo should be stopped. The cheap tactics of the government and Pemra (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority) against the Jang Group are […]
LAHORE: A protest demonstration was organized against ban on Geo Super TV channel under the aegis of Adlia Bachao Committee here at the Lahore High Court Bar. Dozens of lawyers who participated in the demo were holding placards in their hands. They also shouted slogans against ban on Geo Super that has been in place […]
By Fazal Khaliq Mussarat Ahmad Zeb set up a vocational training institute for the women of Swat. SWAT: When all symbols of progressive forces had been crushed by the Taliban in the once serene valley of Swat, Mussarat Ahmad Zeb stepped up and fought for the rights of women in the area. “It was the […]
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