ISLAMABAD: Women Caravan while concluding its two-day ‘Long March’ to highlight the miseries of the flood affected women, held a protest demonstration in front of the Parliament House asking for special budgetary package to address women’s suffering. The unique visual stunt put together by flood-hit rural women culminated here on Wednesday. The women’s caravan that […]
RAWALPINDI: Airport police detained a teacher of a private university for several hours after she argued with a serving army officer for overtaking her car dangerously at Amaar Chowk on Tuesday night, sources told Dawn. She was allowed to go home after reaching a compromise with the officer on Wednesday, the source said. The teacher […]
By Bina Shah WHEN I was a student in Boston, I rode the subway almost every day. There was a woman who I saw more than once on the Red Line; her face was unforgettable, but not because she was a great beauty. Her features were, in fact, grotesque: her nose deformed and melted, her […]
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has withdrawn the portfolio of communications and works from provincial Minister Mir Sadiq Ali Umrani, bifurcated it and allotted the two new departments to two legislators belonging to the PPP. The ministries have been allotted to Mir Madad Ali Jattak and Dr Agha Irfan Karim who had taken […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges has summoned the Senior Advocate Muhammad Akram Sheikh today for his remarks against the parliamentarians during the hearing of 18th amendment case. Sheikh says he argued the case before the Supreme Court while the senator says Sheikh uttered derogatory remarks against the parliament before media. A […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday asked the government to call an “open joint session” of parliament to discuss terrorist attack on a naval base in Karachi and said it had decided not to attend any in-camera session in future. “We demand of the government to convene another joint […]
* CHRE managers say electoral rolls should be updated to make them error-free * Demands govt to ensure that chief election commissioner should be impartial LAHORE: The Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to ensure publication of computerised voters’ lists at least six months prior to any […]
MUHAMMAD SALEEM Lahore: Business Recorder Logo The total size of the information technology sector is estimated at about $2.8 billion in the country, which can reach $5 billion within one year, provided payment gateway facilities are available in Pakistan. Sources told Business Recorder that IT sector has made considerable progress during the last few years […]
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 […]
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