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Daily Archives: July 12, 2011

People’s Medical College Nurses ProtestCollege

NAWABSHAH: The nursing staff of the People’s Medical College Hospital (PMCH) took out a protest rally and observed a token strike to press for the acceptance of their demands on Monday. The call for the protest was given by Sindh Nurses Association (SNA). The demands of the protesters included increase in their salaries. The rally […]


Man kills wife and her friend

RATODERO: A man and a woman were killed late Sunday night after her husband accused her of being unfaithful. The murders took place in the jurisdiction of Waris Dino Mochi police station. Twenty-three-year-old Shahzadi and 24-year-old Ghulam Hussain Brohi were killed by Shahzadi’s husband Munir Ahmed Brohi, who claimed that he found his wife and […]


The ‘logical’ inference to academic history

By: Peer Muhammad / Zaigham Naqvi ISLAMABAD: Some teachers and students of Quaid-i-Azam University have rallied behind a teacher who has been facing sexual harassment charges. Professor Noor Mustafa of Information Technology Department was accused by a student of harassing her in his office asking her either to fulfil his unethical demands or never expect […]


Abducted woman strangled to death

SARGODHA: Four persons abducted a married woman and threw her dead body after strangling her to death. Muhammad Nawaz, a resident of Kot Imrana told that Inayat Allah of Dolat Pur along with his accomplices kidnapped his wife Maqsooda Bibi. He said that the accused strangled his wife to death and threw her body into […]


US sets terms for aid resumption

By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON: The United States wants Pakistan to do more in the fields of counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency and intelligence to qualify for the resumption of US military aid, the State Department said on Monday. And at a briefing at the Pakistan Embassy, Ambassador Husain Haqqani said that Pakistan could not ignore ‘ground realities’ while […]


DCs for five Karachi districts appointed

By: Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: The Sindh government has re-designated all incumbent district coordination officers and executive district officers (revenue) as commissioners and collectors/deputy commissioners for the transition period. A notification issued on Monday with the approval of the competent authority says that in all five divisions – Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas – […]


Contraception a no-go area for most women

By: Taha Siddiqui Tahira, a 28-year-old woman, living in a shanty town in Lahore, has given birth to five children in her eight years of marriage. Her oldest child is a seven-year-old son and her youngest are three-year-old twins – a girl and a boy. Her second child died as an infant. After her third […]


Journalists hold protest demo

NAWABSHAH: A large number of journalists staged a protest demonstration in front of the local press club against misbehave of Senior Minister Zulfiqar Mirza with the media team of Geo TV and snatching of equipment and using abusive language by his guards. The demo led by Muhammad Anwar Shaikh was participated by Muhammad Hakim Khaskheli, […]


Punjab govt maltreating journalists: PML-Q

LAHORE: PML-Q Information Secretary Muhammad Akram Chaudhry has said the Punjab government was treating journalists raising voice of civil society like terrorists, which is a condemnable act. He demanded the provincial government immediately release arrested journalists and quash cases against them. He was addressing a meeting of information secretaries of the party from Kasur, Mianwali, […]