WE have ignored our music icons like Mehdi Hassan, Iqbal Bano, Reshma, etc. The state does not mind paying millions of dollars to power rental companies as capacity charges, although they produce a mere fraction of their capacity. But it has no funds when it comes to the welfare of those who have rendered valuable […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Monday has dissolved seven standing committees of the National Assembly of different subjects under the 18th Amendment. The Cabinet Division notified the dissolution of seven standing committees, namely Environment, Food & Agriculture, Minority Affairs, Labour & Manpower, Women Development, Health and Sports, which are now devolved subjects. The committees have […]
By Murtaza Ali Shah and Dilshad Azeem LONDON: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) tentatively broke the ice when Dr Farooq Sattar and Shahbaz Sharif met here on Monday. Sattar, who is the Deputy Convenor of the MQM Coordination Committee and the party’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, met […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to nominate Justice Mohammad Sardar Raza Khan, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, as chairman of the National Accountability Bureau, sources told Dawn on Monday. The government will send the name of Justice Raza to Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar […]
By Shehzad Baloch Administrator of shelter suspended following the incident. QUETTA: A committee was formed on Monday to investigate the escape of 10 women and three children from a Darul Aman [shelter home]. The inmates managed to flee by cutting the window grilles of Darul Aman on Sunday morning. There were 17 women living in […]
Karachi: As many as 94 naval cadets, including seven women, were commissioned to join the Pakistan Navy (PN) as officers at the passing-out parade held at the Pakistan Naval Academy here on Monday. With these seven women, the number of female officers graduating from Pakistan Naval Academy stands at 64. However, the total number of […]
KARACHI: A newly-married woman was strangled to death allegedly by her husband and father-in-law in Orangi Town on Monday, police said. The officials added that the accused family attempted to cover up the alleged crime by pretending that the woman had committed suicide but a post-mortem examination of the body showed that 22-year-old Nasreen Bibi […]
Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan Monday informed the Supreme Court that 35 million unverified voters had been removed from the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) list while 36 million new voters had been included to the Nadra database. A three-member bench of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice […]
ISLAMABAD- Individualland Pakistan, a non-profit development organization would hold a focus group discussion on Investigative Journalism’ on July 6. IL-Pakistan has initiated a project on mapping and gauging the prevalent status of investigative journalism in the country. It is actively engaged with the media, holding active training of print, radio and electronic media personnel on […]
By Feisal Naqvi Everybody knows the story of the emperor’s new clothes, about how a vain king is persuaded by the flattery of his courtiers to believe that the clothes which he cannot see are actually the finest in the world. Everybody believes that they would never, ever be so dumb. But it turns out […]
By: Ahmad Jamal Nizami BEIJING — An official delegation of journalists from Pakistan comprising ten media men, also including two women, has reached Beijing, the Capital of People’s Republic of China. The tour has been organised by the China Radio International in collaboration with the ministry of information, Pakistan. The Pakistani media men were welcomed […]
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