* White House chief of staff says Pakistan has ‘taken some steps’ that have given US ‘reason to pause’ on aid * NYT says move aimed at chastening Pakistan for expelling US military trainers and to press its army to fight terrorists more effectively WASHINGTON: The United States is withholding some $800 million in military […]
CHENAB NAGAR: A man allegedly chopped off his sister’s legs with an axe after she returned home from her in-law’s house. According to police officials, Moza Kalari resident Shahnaz Bibi recently returned to her parent’s house after a quarrel with her in-laws, upon seeing her back home her brother, Asif took an axe and chopped […]
LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the government is focused on political and economic empowerment of women for harnessing a viable role for women in society. “The empowerment of women will establish their social status and bring about a change to facilitate the process of development in the country,” he said […]
By Asghar Azad KARACHI: The nationalist parties of Sindh have welcomed restoration of commissionerate system in Sindh. Talking to Daily Times, Chairman Sindh United Party Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah said that commissionerate system was the basic right of the people of Sindh as they had demanded it from the day first when a dictator had […]
LARKANA: A young man was killed and his father injured near Mehar on Sunday on the Karo-Kari issue. Heirs of the deceased later carried the body and staged a sit-in, blocking the main road while chanting slogans against the killers. Two groups of Solangi community clashed in the jurisdiction of Thariri police station, in village […]
By Mohammad Ashfaq PESHAWAR: The University of Peshawar decided to reduce the powers of internal examiners to effectively tackle the issues of harassment and exploitation of students, official sources said. They said that the decision was taken after the issue of harassment of girl students of the university surfaced few months ago. The issue was […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: Despite their recent decision to play the role of a ‘combined opposition’ in parliament, the Pakistan Muslim League-N and Muttahida Qaumi Movement are poles apart on the issue of the restoration of the commissionerate system. “We are with the MQM on the issue of the law and order situation in Karachi, […]
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Sunday announced that it had administratively divided the province into five divisions. According to a Sindh revenue department notification, Karachi will remain a division with the City District Karachi being one city district as it been until July 8. The notification stated that “in exercise of powers conferred under Section […]
SHIKARPUR: Police have registered an FIR against organisers and participants of a jirga held to resolve a karo-kari related dispute. So far none of the accused has been arrested. Chak police station SHO Khair Mohammad Samejo said that Gul Khan, Shafi Mohammad, Hakim Ali and Khair Mohammad, Akbar Mirani, Seengar Ali Mirani, Wahid Bux Mirani […]
KARACHI: On the very first day of taking charge of the Ministry of Works and Services, Zulfiqar Mirza failed to make secret his anger and vindictiveness against the media and launched an undisguised attack on the freedom of the press. While disallowing the Geo News team from covering his tour of the MA Jinnah Road […]
On May 31, Pakistan’s journalist community was shocked when Syed Saleem Shahzad’s body bearing torture marks was found two days after he had gone missing from Islamabad. Mr Shahzad had been voicing his concern about threats to his life from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Journalists from all over the world condemned this act of brutality. […]
KARACHI: The Cogito Productions, an emerging platform of performing arts, launched its website, www.cogito.pk and held ‘The Third Act’ recently at The 2nd Floor (T2F) gallery. The first play of the act was ‘Tauheen-e-Insaniyat,’ which discussed that the moral values of society were being lost in the country as some elements impose false blames on […]
KARACHI: Shoaib Mansoor’s Bol at local cinemas has made another remarkable historic record in just two weeks, the cumulative total of which is a figure of Rs47,217,600 at 24 screens which itself is a record from its first week gross revenue of Rs24,648,778 from 26 cinemas. This mind blowing box office record is unparalleled in […]
RAWALPINDI: Idrees Bakhtiar, senior editor monthly ‘Herald’, was elected president of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (Dastoor) and Riffat Qadri general secretary unopposed for 2011-12 here on Sunday. According to a press release, three-day meeting of delegates of the PFUJ (Dastoor) concluded at the Rawalpindi Press Club. Azam Gondal, Imran Bashir, Zahir Anwer Jamali, Jamil […]
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