LAHORE: A 20-year-old girl was shot dead in the name of honour in Sattukatla police precincts on Sunday. The victim was identified as Kausar, a resident of Nawab Town. According to the police, her brothers Zaman and Shada suspected that she had an affair with her cousin. They had also warned Kausar several times but […]
By Iqbal Hussain SAHIWAL: The United States embassy has requested special protection for US citizen Thomas Daniel, 35, who recently came to Pakistan to marry a Christian girl from Sahiwal. The couple had met and began interacting on a chat site on the internet three years ago. According to Thomas, he and Sahiwal Busti Jahaz […]
SUKKUR: Three women, including mother and daughter, were killed on an issue of Karo Kari on Sunday. Police said accused Muhammad Alim Bijarani shot dead his wife Konja in Karampur suspecting that she was having illicit relations with someone. In another Karo Kari killing incident, an accused shot dead his cousin Zeenat and her mother […]
LARKANA: A youth was killed under the pretext of Karo-Kari near Benazirabad on Sunday. 30-year-old Shah Nawaz Khaskheli was killed by unknown armed men under the allegation of Karo-Kari. The men shot him with a pistol when he was sleeping at his house and fled from the scene. SHO Mohammed Ali Zardari, told this correspondent […]
Karachi: A man killed his young wife after a domestic dispute in the Mochko police limits on Sunday. Asia, 25, wife of Bakhtullah, was slaughtered by her husband hours after an exchange of hot words in their Ittehad Town residence in Saeedabad. Asia was sleeping when she was attacked by Bakhtullah. The accused fled after […]
QUETTA: Police launched a search operation to find 17 girls who escaped from Quetta’s Darul Aman shelter on Saturday night, DawnNews reported. The Darul Aman administration has filed a report of the incident. According to the police investigation the girls escaped by cutting open window grills and jumping off the walls. The building is located […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has reacted positively to Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s statement welcoming it into an ‘opposition alliance’, but has said it is not ready to join any move to topple the government. “We recognise PML-N’s mandate and will definitely cooperate with the party on the opposition […]
By Muzaffar Qureshi KARACHI: Despite safeguards in place to check pilferage in the World Bank grant of Rs1.108 billion for promotion of girls` education, about Rs10 million has been embezzled in 2010-11, it emerged on Tuesday. The grant is aimed at encouraging girls to continue their education after completing their primary level. A stipend of […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has requested the Home Minister, Punjab and IG Police Punjab to advise the concerned officials of North Cantonment Police Station to take immediate action on the FIR of Syed Muhammad Munir Jilani, Finance Secretary of the APNS, lodged against the theft of valuables amounting to over Rs12 lacs. The […]
Mumtaz Alvi QUETTA: Amid seething violence of diverse nature, there are certain positive and encouraging indicators emanating from Balochistan: one of them is the growth of media in recent years. Though journalists find it exceedingly unsafe here to report what they see with their naked eyes or through camera, they keep on covering events and […]
By Syed Hassan Ali KARACHI: ‘A tribute to Mehdi Hassan’ brought together many amateur and professional artistes and music connoisseurs from across the country at the open-air theatre of the Arts Council here on Saturday. The audience at the fund-raising music event, organised by the Mehdi Hassan Foundation with the collaboration of the Arts Council, […]
Waseem Ahmad Shah RECENTLY, the security forces and police in Lower Dir district presented a nine-year-old girl before media claiming that she was abducted by some terrorists and they intended to use her as a suicide bomber. They claimed that they had also recovered a suicide vest from a nearby place at Islam Dara area. […]
Saman Ghani Khan Karachi: In July 2007 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with the Time magazine to talk about the future of what is now nothing short of a social phenomenon. When asked about where he saw Facebook three to five years from now, Zuckerberg said that it was difficult to predict the future […]
Not so very long ago, mention of the media brought to mind images of men hunched over newsroom tables, and a bit later computers, finalising the material that would be imprinted at giant presses onto the pages of newsprint, making up the papers that landed on doorsteps each day. It is quite astonishing to think […]
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