PROVIDED the government comes up with the requisite funding, a new Pushto TV channel by the name of Abaseen TV is set to be launched by the end of the year, a report in this paper says. A PTV project, the channel has been on the drawing board for the past five years, the rationale […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Speakers clarified the misconceptions regarding Sindh’s famous politician G.M. Syed and touched on his philosophy of life at the launch of the book Fikr-i-G.M. Syed Aur Aaj Ka Pakistan by Abdul Khaliq Junejo at the PMA House on Friday. The book is an Urdu translation of three of the politician’s known […]
LAHORE: Girls have secured the top three positions in the BA/BSc annual examinations of the Punjab University. The top three positions in the bachelors of sciences (BSc) and the first position in the bachelors of arts (BA) have gone to girls, with boys securing the second and third positions in the BA in the results […]
ISLAMABAD: Girls maintained their record as they outshone boys in Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) annual examination Part-II bagging top 15 positions, according to the result announced by Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) here on Friday. Fatima Khalid of Army Public School and College, Sargodha Cantt, Amna Farouk of Bahria College, Islamabad […]
By: Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: A Rangers constable was sentenced to death and five other personnel and a civilian to life imprisonment by an anti-terrorism court here on Friday for shooting an unarmed youth to death in a public park. Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso of ATC-I concluded the trial in around one and a half months […]
By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari signed on Friday amendments made to the century-old Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) which will give the people of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) for the first time the right of appeal against decisions of the political agent. The president also signed the Extension of the Political Parties […]
GUJRAT: Human Rights and Rights of minorities are tagged with the overall problems like lawlessness, bloodshed, violence, terrorism, sectarianism rampant in Pakistan today. Missing persons in huge numbers affecting the lives of so many families are a glaring violation of human rights. It is not only our social mores, cultural paradigms and traditions which are […]
NEW YORK: An anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted and sentenced six Rangers personnel and a civilian for murdering an unarmed youth in their custody. Shahid Zafar, the soldier who shot dead Sarfraz Shah, 18, on June 8 in a park in Karachi after the Rangers detained him, was sentenced to death. He said he would […]
ISLAMABAD: Nearly 500 employees of a television channel may lose their jobs on August 15 if the court does not alter its decision, petitioned a senior apex court advocate to Justice Jawwad S Khawaja of the Supreme Court on Friday. Representing the ATV employees in a petition filed by Chairman All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation […]
By: Mushtaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: There was no information about whereabouts of a senior tribal journalist Rahmatullah Khan Darpakhel kidnapped by armed men from Miramshah bazaar on Thursday. Also, in a separate incident a group of armed men with their faces covered Friday kidnapped staff member of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) from Miramshah. The […]
LAHORE: Protests are to be held in front of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad press clubs today (Saturday) from 3pm to 4pm to condemn the police attack on Nairang Gallery and its staff. Shadman Police Station SHO Rana Zulfiqar had raided the art gallery-cum-café on August 2. During the raid, he allegedly assaulted the staff members […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers have refused to give any reaction to the devastating verdict on their institution in the infamous Sarfraz Shah case. Spokesperson Major Farooq Bilal said that any reaction would come from the lawyers defending their six personnel. Meanwhile, Awaz TV cameraman Abdul Salam Soomro, who had filmed the extra-judicial murder, remains underground […]
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