Karachi: The Coordination Committee of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has expressed its concerns over the disappearance of senior journalist Malik Munawer. In a statement, the Coordination Committee said that Munawer, a News 5 reporter, had left for work on Thursday and later gone missing. More than 24 hours had passed, and no contact could […]
By Fazal Khaliq SWAT: “Tandem skydiving is only for the brave of heart,” Sherin Zada was told when he arrived to cover the Spirit of Swat event recently. Zada, the Express TV reporter, was there to provide media coverage to Andrew, a UK-based skydiver who was getting ready to set the record for flying the […]
THIS is apropos of the letter by Rafiullah Kakar (July 12). I agree with the writer who has said that the alleged targeted killings of innocent teachers in Balochistan have brought the educational system of the province to a standstill. The deteriorating law and order situation, long closure of educational institutions, sudden transfers of the […]
KHUDAYAR MOHLA ISLAMABAD: A two-member bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani on Friday ordered the PTCL management to release the pension and medical benefits of its former employees within seven days. Sheraz Ahmed and others have filed a petition through Kowkab Iqbal against the judgment a […]
LAHORE: An Additional District & Sessions Judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for raping his teenage daughter. Additional District & Sessions Judge Judge Muhammad Tahir Khan Niazi handed out the death sentence to Zia Majeed*, father of six, who was accused of raping his daughter, a high school student. Majeed claimed he had […]
SUKKUR: Four women and three men were killed over the pretext of karo-kari in three separate incidents on Friday. Two women and two men were shot dead in Fazal Haq Buledi village in the Miranpur Buriro near Garhi Khero, Jacobabad district. Kareem Bux Buledi with the help of his accomplices shot dead his wife Zarina, […]
By Latif Baloch KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on Friday informed that the government was preparing a report on women trafficking in the province and the consultant of the project would complete the report by next year. Provincial Minister for Women Development Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto told legislators during the question hour in the house that […]
MUZAFFARABAD: The AJK`s Chief Election Commissioner on Friday disallowed the nomination of an MQM candidate for the reserved seats for women on technical grounds besides rejecting objections against the candidature of a PML-N nominee for the women`s seat and a PPAJK`s candidate for the seat of a religious scholar. According to Mohammad Younus Mughal, secretary […]
KARACHI: A five-member delegation of Hyderabad Press Club (HPC) Friday called on Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister’s House here. The delegation apprised the chief minister about the problems of the club and issues pertaining to allotment of land for residential colony of HPC members. Shah while talking to […]
Rabia Ali Karachi: A three-day comic workshop on tolerance came to an end on Friday as participants drew black and white strips, narrating their stories and highlighting certain issues. Around 28 people, some hailing from rural Sindh, participated in the event organised by the World Comics Network-Pakistan in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission of […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Film Distributors` Association seeks Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani`s intervention in securing a berth for Pakistani flicks in local cinemas on Eids. In a letter written to Mr Gilani, movie distributors say that on the coming Eid, two Urdu and two Punjabi films will be released which are likely to face a […]
By Meiryum Ali KARACHI: The girlsÂ’ foreheads were gashed with scars. The boys rushed into the elevators in black gowns. If there had been wands, there would have been magic. But for Karachi’s Harry Potter fans, a 4:15pm premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, at the Atrium Cinema was magical enough. […]
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