By Muhammad Sadaqat She was confined for two weeks before she somehow got access to a small knife fitted with a nail cutter, police said. She used it to cut the rope during the night. MANSEHRA: A young girl who married against the will of her parents spent a fortnight in solitary confinement before she […]
ISLAMABAD – A biannual report released Tuesday has observed a sharp increase in the reported cases of violence against women from January to June 2011 as compared to the same time period last year. Aurat Foundation has compiled the report from reported cases of newspapers and shelter homes from across the country excluding Gilgit-Baltistan. The […]
By Tariq Mahmud IN a recent move, the Sindh government repealed the Local Government Ordinance 2001 and Police Order 2002 replacing these two flagships of the Musharraf era with the Police Act 1861 and the Local Government Ordinance 1979 only to reverse the latter act within no time. The office of the commissioner which also […]
QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly withdrew a resolution on new provinces when the House resumed session after two days recess here on Tuesday. Speaker Aslam Bhotani chaired the session. The resolution was moved by PML MPA Shaikh Jaffar Mandokhel. Moving his resolution, Jaffar Mandokhel said that owing to discussion and new statements over creation of new provinces […]
QUETTA- The President of Pakistan is to inaugurate the Quetta-Shikarpur-Sukkur optical fibre link. The inauguration of fibre link will usher in a new era of progress in Balochistan. Situated at a strategic location, bordering Iran, Afghanistan and touching the hot waters of Gulf and Arabian sea, Balochistan is the biggest province of Pakistan with an […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notices to federal and four provincial governments on a writ petition challenging power of the parliament to carve out more provinces. Federation of Pakistan through the law secretary, senate chairman, national assembly speaker and four provinces – Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan – through chief secretaries […]
ISLAMABAD: Judicial Commission on Political Interference in NICL scam is all set to pinpoint those who financed the malicious campaign against the judiciary on the electronic media and in the first instance has summoned Additional Director General Federal Investigation Agency, Zafar Ahmad Qureshi, and two reporters of The News, Ahmad Noorani and Usman Manzoor today […]
LAHORE: The Judicial commission probing the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad on Tuesday questioned senior officers of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB). After meeting of the commission at the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry on Tuesday, the Commission’s Secretary and Federal Information Secretary Taimour Azmat, talking to the media, said that […]
QUETTA: Journalists, on Tuesday, walked out of Balochistan Assembly proceedings against the target killing of journalist Munir Shakir in Khuzdar. Munir Shakir was killed by unidentified people on August 14. He was the eleventh journalist of Balochistan who fell victim to target killing in two years. The journalists who were covering the session of the […]
NEW YORK – The Committee to Protect Journalists has voiced its concern over the assassination of Waqt News reporter in Balochistan and the abduction of another in North Waziristan Agency. Waqt News reporter Munir Shakir was killed on Sunday after he was shot while on his way home from the Khuzdar Press Club. “Conditions for […]
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