Farooq Aqdus and Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: Treasury members had to face tense situation on Monday during the budget debate in the National Assembly when one of their colleagues, a minority member belonging to Sindh, criticised the government, though he started his speech with the slogan of Jeay Bhutto and ended it with the same slogan […]
By SADAQAT ALI Claims he when he caught them together at his home on Friday night. HARIPUR: A woman was allegedly paraded naked in the streets of Neelor Bala village on the instigation of a jirga that found her son guilty of rape. Four armed men, who belonged to the same village as that of […]
Court sends four accused on remand for four days. SUKKUR: A woman was killed by four members of her family and was later buried in her house in Farash Morr village in Sukkur. On Sunday morning, a neighbour informed the police that Imdad Ali Shaikh, his son Raza Muhammad and nephew Gul Muhammad beat Arzana […]
BUREWALA – A youth allegedly shot dead his step-mother and two step-sisters over a property row here late the other night. Abdul Rashid, a resident of Chak 124/EB contracted his first marriage with Bashiran Bibi. He later contracted his second marriage with Razia Bibi, the widow of his brother Bashir Ahmad, in 1993. Razia Bibi […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Six men tortured a woman, cut her hair and injured her here over a land dispute in the jurisdiction of Bhiria Road Police Station on Monday. According to police, a woman, Zainab Lashari, was going to her house after working in the field when she reached her village, six culprits, who were her […]
Karachi: A policeman who shot his wife dead in the Korangi Industrial Area on Monday is still at large. Sub-Inspector Yousuf Narajo shot dead his wife, 30-year-old Sughra Bibi, mother of two, after an argument in his Bilal Colony residence. Sughra’s mother Fameeda was the first to see her daughter’s body in a pool of […]
I read Salman Siddiqui’s piece titled “The last refuge of a scoundrel” in your edition of June 10. It was sad what Mr Siddiqui said about ethics in the field of journalism today, and one couldn’t agree more with him. There is so much ‘white noiseÂ’ in our media today that many people I know […]
By Qurban Ali Khushik DADU: The state would lodge FIR against parents and guardians for arranging marriages of underage girls in the district. This was disclosed by one of the speakers in a seminar on `early marriages of girls` organised by the Women Empowerment and Development Organisation in collaboration with the Strengthening Participatory Organization here […]
By Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The opening day of a concert of fusion music titled Zarb turned out to be a pretty enjoyable event for music lovers at the Arts Council Theatre on Monday. The two-day event is organised by the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) in collaboration with the Arts Council Karachi. The evening […]
By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque KARACHI: Six personnel of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, and a civilian were remanded in police custody on Monday till Wednesday by the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi for their involvement in the June 8 shooting to death of an unarmed young man. Widely televised footage showed the youth, Sarfraz Shah, being […]
By Shamim-ur-Rahman KARACHI: Four Pakistani and six Indian seamen and 12 other hostages have been released by Somali pirates after payment of $2.1 million ransom. Besides Capt Syed Wasi Hasan, Muzzamil, Mohammed Alam and Ali Rehman of Pakistan and six Indians, 11 Egyptians and a Sri Lankan citizen have been freed, a spokesperson for the […]
A Pakistani journalist Waqar Kiani has revealed that the intelligence agencies had tortured him in July 2008, accusing him of being a British agent, reported the Guardian. According to the newspaper, Kiani says he was driving out of Islamabad just after sunset when two vehicles ran him off the road and two men bundled him […]
‘Five journalists have died in Pakistan so far this year’. FAISALABAD: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has raised an alarm over the lack of security for Pakistani journalists. The statement comes two days after a journalist died in twin bombings in Peshawar. The death of Asfandyar Khan, according to the IFJ, is the fifth […]
PESHAWAR: Senior journalists at a dialogue Monday stressed the need for adoption and implementation of standard operation procedures (SOPs) at media outlets and proper safety training for the media persons working in the troubled regions. The dialogue was arranged here under the aegis of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Khyber Union of Journalists […]
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