Islamabad: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Wednesday inaugurated a Utility Store branch at National Press Club on Wednesday. He said that more strores would be set up at various press club. He urged the Utility Stores management to evolve a plan for setting up department stroes in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Quetta. He climed that […]
KARACHI: Two pieces of Urdu literature – one a poem titled “A’ane wali kal” (the day that comes tomorrow) by Saba Ekram and second a short story titled “Bebasi ki masroofiat” by Qamar Afzal Qamar – were discussed at a literary meeting arranged by “Mumasilaat”, where the participants termed the poem a wonderful creative piece […]
HYDERABAD: Scholars while paying rich tribute to noted scholar Dr Abdul Jabbar Junejo, said that Dr Junejo contributed a lot for Sindhi language and literature; he was a man of multi qualities and was an expert of various languages as well as music. In a condolence meeting organised by the Department of Sindh, Dr Noor […]
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked journalists and members of civil society to help the government fight terrorism. Inaugurating the 4th sessions of PM’s Dialogue with the Nation here Wednesday, he thanked journalists and members of civil society for participating in the consultative talk. He stressed the need for promoting moral values in […]
By: Jamil Nasir Governance and human development are closely intertwined as sustainable human development is almost impossible without good governance. No doubt, income plays a fundamental role, as argued by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, in facilitating the access of individuals to opportunities and capabilities. However, the relationship between income and capabilities is neither automatic nor […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The government adopted on Wednesday a ‘carrot and stick’ policy to deal with the law and order situation in Karachi by keeping its doors open for negotiations with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and giving more powers and resources to security forces to take stern action against troublemakers. The decisions […]
By: Pervez Shaukat ISLAMABAD: The high command of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the government have finally decided to establish a Seraiki province, reliable sources revealed here. It is said that President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani have completed their interaction with different political leaders. Parliamentarians from south Punjab have […]
Islamabad: The Population Census Organization (PCO) of the Statistics Division will start the second phase of 6th National Population and House Census after Ramazan (in September) ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Director General of Population Census Organizations Muhamad AKhram Janjua told APP on Wednesday that the PCO has already complete the Housing Census 2011 operation. The […]
QUETTA: Pak Army on Wednesday rejected human rights organisations’ reports about Balochistan as an attempt to destabilise and malign Pakistan. Talking to media here, ISPR Director-General Maj Gen Athar Abbas called for probing the funding of these organisations as this could be traced back to those forces which want to destabilise Pakistan. -Online APP adds: […]
KARACHI: Senior journalist Yousuf Khan passed away here on Wednesday. He was 54. His family said he suffered a heart attack late in the evening. He was admitted to a private hospital in Defence but could not survive. He left behind his wife, two sons and a daughter. Mr Khan worked for more than three […]
By: Zimyad Ahmed KARACHI: At dusk, a Hindu woman dressed in a saari worked quietly in her family’s dimly lit twig hut. The hut’s small round interior was lit only by the fire of a tandoor. As she squatted near the flames, preparing rotis, a tiny girl, still unaccustomed to standing on her own, clung […]
KARACHI: A district and sessions court on Wednesday dismissed the bail applications of two men in a gang-rape case. They along with their accomplices were booked for subjecting 18-year-old Nasima Lubano to a sexual assault in January 2007 in Ghotki district. The men, who had been declared absconders by the district and sessions court, got […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A man Qadir Khoso killed his sister Bably and mother Hakeema in Sher Khan Khoso village near here on Wednesday. According to SHO of Kandiaro police station Abdul Jabbar Maher, Bably was married and had three children. Qadir Khoso, according to police record, was a criminal and absconding in six cases registered against […]
KARACHI: Minister for Interior, Senator Rehman Malik, has directed Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to help Karachi Police in detection of terrorists and overcome the illegal use of mobile phones in the country. Chairing a meeting at National Crisis Management Cell on Wednesday he said misuse of mobile phones and SIMS by terrorists has to be […]
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