Karachi: Aamir Latif and Naeem Tahir have been elected unopposed as president and secretary of Karachi Union of Journalists-Dastoori (KUJ-D) for 2011-12. Two vice presidents, Raja Kamran and Tariq Aslam, two joint secretaries Ghulam Mustafa and Mansoor Qureshi, finance secretary Romail Kenneth, and information secretary Abdul Rehman were also elected unopposed. Elections for nine seats […]
ABDUS SALAM was one and the last of the five legendary Urdu news readers of Radio Pakistan. Others included Shakeel Ahmed, Anwar Behzad, Warasat Mirza and Shamim Ejaz. Born in the city of Ajmer Sharif in Rajhastan, Abdus Salam belonged to a lower middle class family. He joined Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad, as a technical operator […]
By: Shamim ur Rahman KARACHI: Employees of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) called off their three-month protest against the company’s lay-off policy after the government brokered an agreement amid bitter bargaining at around 7am on Tuesday. Jubilant workers encamped outside the Karachi Press Club and the nearby Fawwara Chowk for about 20 hours waiting […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has failed to invest in prevention measures since last year`s floods that killed 1,750 people and is vulnerable to another disaster this monsoon season, Oxfam said on Tuesday. The relief agency marked one year since the beginning of the 2010 disaster, when flooding inundated a third of Pakistan, by calling for more to […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of thousands of applicants have been unable to get their Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) for the last one month due to a technical fault in the system of National Database Registration Authority (Nadra), Dawn has learnt. Sources in the authority said as Nadra’s system is not uploading its […]
LARKANA: A man killed his teenaged sister on the pretext of Karo-Kari (honour kiiling) in the limits of Mahotta Police Station in the wee hour of Tuesday. As per deta8ils, 18-year-old Fahmida was killed by her elder brother Niaz Hussain Umrani at her home in village Nangar Khan Umrani. She was fired upon pistol shots. […]
NANKANA SAHIB: A man raped a girl at her resident here the other night. Tasawar Bibi, a resident of Mangtanwala, was asleep in her house when Farman Ali stormed into the house and raped her at gunpoint. In another incident, Kiran Bibi was abducted by Iqbal Bibi, Riaz, Abbas, and Manzoor. The police have registered […]
FAISALABAD: A man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighbourhood. On Tuesday morning, Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them while the rest of the family, including their mother, watched. His wife Musarrat called the police after […]
ISLAMABAD: A group of real estate and business professionals is currently visiting Pakistan with an aim to attract investment in the American real estate sector. According to a statement issued by the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) here on Tuesday, the group has also planned to establish an orphanage and a […]
ISLAMABAD: Women from the flood-hit areas on Tuesday urged the government to take urgent steps for their protection, saying they continue to bear the brunt of the natural disaster one year on. Talking with Dawn, women attending a public forum on “rebuilding lives post flood 2010” organised by ActionAid Pakistan and its local partners, expressed […]
By: Zubeida Mustafa THE scandal surrounding the now defunct News of the World which has brought much embarrassment to the high and mighty in London will hopefully prove to be the proverbial watershed that the media in our globalised world badly needs. One positive result of the fall of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain is […]
By: Mobarik A. Virk The tension-riddled relations of India and Pakistan, ever since August 1947 when they emerged as two independent, sovereign states on the map of the world has also impacted the media in both countries. Historically, the region has been perceived as an active, rumbling volcano, continuously spewing threatening clouds of a serious […]
It is heartening to know that the Punjab government has, at last, set up a fund to support artistes and their families. According to a newspaper report, around Rs50 million has been set aside in for this purpose and this is great because those who are involved in the creative arts usually do not get […]
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