Islamabad–Utility Store Corporation of Pakistan (USC) Islamabad here on Monday set up a journalists-specific utility store at National Press Club to provide clean, graded, hygienically fit food and non-food items to the its community on subsidized rates. Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is likely to inaugurate the shop at NPC which would be formally […]
Karachi: Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister Haleem Aadil Sheikh, inaugurated the opening of a branch of the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) at the Karachi Press Club on Monday and said that the PML-Q and the government would set up USC branches at the important Press clubs of the country and that the setting up […]
ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Division, whose minister is Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday lied to the National Assembly regarding allotment of plots to journalists. Apparently, to vilify the journalists and their community the minister in charge (prime minister) of the Cabinet Division claimed to have allotted residential plots in sector I-15 of the […]
By Zaheer Bhatti The electronic media in Pakistan exploded to plurality on the media horizon at the turn of the century, and gave the country the strength of opinions that started to impact beyond the hitherto solitary official media mouthpiece, which no one took seriously until a wake-up call was served to it by the […]
In the existing era, no one can deny the importance of media. The media is a significant source to obtain information and recreation. The state of mind of the people can be changed through media. The media has started to play important role in the wars of present era. Now all great wars are being […]
TAXILA: A female student was shot dead allegedly by her principal after she resisted his bid to sexually assault her, police said here on Monday. The bullet-riddled body of S.A, 22, a student of a private computer training institute, was found in an under-construction house in the new city area. The body was later handed […]
LAHORE: The government should recognise informal sector as a major contributor to the national economy and acknowledge home-based and domestic workers, especially women, as collective workforce. This was consensus among participants of a seminar on `Recognition of labour rights in informal sector: Ratification of ILO C 177 and C 189,` arranged by the HomeNet Pakistan […]
By Azizullah Sharif KARACHI: Girls outshined boys by clinching first, second and third positions in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Part-II (Class X), Science group, annual examinations-2011 whose results were announced on Monday by the Board of Secondary Education Karachi. The overall pass percentage stood at 73.92per cent. The results have been declared 14 days […]
PESHAWAR: A local court on Monday dismissed bail petition of six persons including a prayer leader and members of a jirga charged with giving a female in swara to a rival family for settling a dispute. The court presided over by Additional District and Sessions Judge Muneera Abbasi observed that the petitioners were charged in […]
SUKKUR: A man killed his daughter-in-law because she did not serve him breakfast when he demanded it, in Kouro Leghari village in Ghotki district. On Monday morning, Farzana, 20, wife of Akhtar Leghari, had gone to a field to bring fodder for the buffalo. As soon as she came back home, her father-in-law, Ali Hassan […]
Sir: It was recently reported that the police raided and arrested nine people, including a registered nikah khawan (marriage registrar), in connection to a watta-satta (tribal custom of exchanging brides between two families) near Jhang. The police raid was carried out after the wedding ceremony of a 5-year-old girl to a 25-year-old groom, whose sister […]
KARACHI: The Sindh government has given the status of minister to three advisers to the chief minister. According to a notification issued here on Monday by the Services, General Administration and Coordination Department (Cabinet section), the Sindh chief minister exercising powers conferred under Rule 6 (ii) of the Sindh Government Rules of Business, 1986, assigned […]
Rabia Ali Karachi: As political parties rally for peace in the city and distance themselves from the ongoing spree of target killing that claimed over 300 lives last month, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) believes otherwise, blaming the powerful political groups as the “main directors of the horrible game of death and destruction”. […]
GENEVA: Mehran Baloch, the Baloch representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, has welcomed the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report entitled “We can torture, kill and keep you for years”, a three-part series of investigations on Balochistan. The report alleges that hundreds of political activists are being held and tortured by security forces without […]
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