ONE needs no medical consultation and medicinal treatment. All one needs is certain non-medicinal products, and the ailment is gone. This is what some of the advertisements on our TV channels have been suggesting to viewers. A particular brand of soap can rid you, not one or two, but of 10 diseases. Surprisingly, these include […]
By Rauf Parekh A GIRL student of mine, a South Korean by nationality, had become much interested in Urdu. She was doing a certificate course at Karachi University’s Urdu department and was doing quite well but sometimes stumbled on certain syntactical variations that Urdu has. Another problem was that every so often she could not […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that media can effectively project soft image of Pakistan across the world besides strengthening democracy in the country. Speaking at a reception hosted in her honour by workers of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) here, she said Pakistan was facing a challenging […]
By Sarfaraz Memon SUKKUR: A jirga decided that a small girl should be bartered in compensation to settle a karo-kari dispute between two groups of the Kambohs and Maliks. This was decided in Din Mohammad Malik village near Daharki. Four months ago, Khadim Hussain Malik, the son of Mevo Malik, and Kausar, the daughter of […]
By Umer Nangiana ISLAMABAD: The victim of an alleged rape by a cop is not only ready to forgive him, but is willing to retreat from her earlier statement that she was raped at all in exchange for forty thousand rupees, sources said. The husband of the human rights lawyer pursuing the victim’s case, using […]
PESHAWAR: A man allegedly killed three persons, including his wife and sister-in-law, for honour and managed to escape here at Mathra area on Sunday. The complainant in the case is Ms Khiala, mother of the alleged killer Ajab Khan. She told the local police that her son suspected that his wife was having illicit relations […]
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is providing comprehensive reproductive health care services even one year after the devastating flood that hit the vast areas of the country as part of its humanitarian response. According to a press release issued here on Sunday, the fund`s immediate response after the flood was to support basic […]
By Muzaffar Qureshi KARACHI: With the revival of the commissioner system in Sindh, all proceeds of the property tax have been transferred to the department of excise and taxation with effect from July 1, 2011. The department had already been collecting property tax on behalf of the City District Government Karachi since the introduction of […]
MARDAN: Office-bearers of the Mardan Press Club on Sunday condemned the attacks on the offices of Geo News and Daily Jang in Karachi. The members of the club held a meeting, which was presided over by its general secretary Muhammad Riaz Mayar. Addressing the meeting, the speakers including Ashraf Khan, Abdul Sattar, Parveez Shaheen and […]
SAKRAND/THAREE MIR WAH/MAHYER/PUDEIDEN: Activists of a linguistic organisation burnt a few copies of the daily Jang after snatching them from hawkers and also interrupted telecasts of Geo News channel for a while in some areas of interior Sindh on Sunday. The miscreants burnt a few copies of daily Jang and Akhbar-e-Jehan in Sakrand while the […]
BANNU/SHERGARH: Journalists of Takht Bhai and Sher Garh in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa staged demonstrations outside their respective press clubs to condemn attacks on the offices of Geo TV and daily Jang and the burning of a few newspaper bundles. Chairman Shergarh press club, Fazl Hadi, said journalists from all over the country would raise their voice […]
KARACHI: The Karachi Press Club (KPC) Clinic, providing medical assistance to journalists and their respective families will remain open from 15:00 hours to 17:30 hours, daily except Sundays, during Ramazan. KPC Secretary, Moosa Kaleem said the clinic was established in May this year with the support of Sindh Health Department and in collaboration with Association […]
Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) claims to have issued computerised national identity cards (CNICs) to more than seven million people in Karachi, but independent observers estimate that 50 percent of the people are living without CNICs in the city. Among old inhabitants of Karachi, the majority of foreigners who […]
By Kazim Alam KARACHI: Unlike its neighbour India — whose information technology industry is dominated by large, world-renowned firms — Pakistan’s IT sector consists of a web of small firms, many of which are started by entrepreneurs encouraged by the low barriers to entry in the business. “You no longer need family money or a […]
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