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Daily Archives: July 9, 2011

Nadra providing help to ECP in preparation of Draft Electoral Rolls

National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) is providing support to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in preparation of Draft Electoral Rolls after ECP deleted 37 million unverified votes from Final Electoral Rolls 2007. “Nadra has verified the electoral rolls and helped the ECP to remove the anomalies and also help the ECP in printing fresh […]


Manzoor Wasan replaces Zulfiqar Mirza as Sindh Home Minister

By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The PPP-led government has decided to keep the doors of reconciliation open with the disgruntled coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement, and to restore the commissionerate system in Sindh to ‘strengthen’ the local government in Karachi, maintain law and order and curb target killings. The decision was taken at a high-level […]


Three killed for honour

By: Bari Baloch QUETTA – Three people including a woman were killed in the name of honour in Mastung and Jaffarabad towns of Balochistan in two separate incidents on Wednesday. In the first incident, unidentified people killed a woman and her alleged paramour in Mastung and escaped from the site after committing the crime. Police […]


Afghan mobile SIMs active in Kohat

By Abdul Sami Paracha KOHAT: The services of Afghan cellphone companies are being used freely in Kohat region, mainly Hangu, and the adjoining tribal areas, where the local mobile companies have suspended their services to check contacts between militant groups. It shows the helplessness of the authorities concerned to stop the illegal service and effectively […]


5,602 stolen passports seized, five arrested

KARACHI: Police on Friday seized 5,602 stolen passports and arrested five suspects involved in the theft. The passports had been stolen from the office of the Travel Agents Association of Pakistan, situated near Metropole, on June 6. The officials said that that the passports had been sent to the office by 11 travel agencies for […]


Gender discrimination

NATURE has always maintained a balance in this world in order to garnish it with beauty. It produces a balance factor for each and every substance. These balance factors vary in the proportion of the support which they provide to their counterpart. In the same context men and women are regarded as the supporting counterpart […]


Killing two birds with one stone?

Killing of Saleem Shahzad is an unforgivable offence. Those who killed him mercilessly after apparently torturing him, should not get away with it. According to a news item, he left home in Islamabad at around 5 pm to appear in a talk show on a private channel. He did not reach there. It was reported […]


Prof Waris Mir – A writer par excellence

LAHORE: To celebrated French writer Juan Loius Balzak, writing was more than a passionate expression of ideas – to him it was more ritualistic and spiritual. Therefore, before sitting at his writing desk, he used to adorn himself with the robes worn by catholic priests. Balzak’s rituality apart, any writer coming from any part of […]


More on Shahzad

In a first of its kind on-the-record allegation by a high-ranking US official, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm Mike Mullen has said he believes the Pakistani government ‘sanctioned’ journalist Saleem Shahzad’s killing, adding that he did not have a “string of evidence” directly linking the death to the ISI. A few days before Mullen’s […]


Radio Pakistan starts special transmission on Karachi situation

Lahore: Radio Pakistan has started special broadcasts to meet challenges rising from incidents of violence in Karachi, according to a press release issued on Friday. Radio Pakistan has set up a line to help people reach relief and law enforcement agencies, according to the press release issued by PBC. In case of an emergency, people […]