By Azam Khan ISLAMABAD: If the prime minister didn’t hear the order the first time, he certainly will have heard it this time. The Supreme Court on Thursday reiterated an order to the prime minister to write to Switzerland for reopening corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, demanding a compliance report by March 21. […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is advertising for companies to install an Internet filtering system that could block up to 50 million Web addresses, alarming free speech activists who fear current censorship could become much more widespread. Internet access for Pakistan’s some 20 million Web users is less restricted than in many countries in Asia and the Arab […]
Karachi: The US Consulate-General in Karachi hosted a dialogue on the occasion on International Women’s Day with the theme, “Women: Freedom and Equality”. Leading Pakistani women panelists spoke on the occasion. The seminar was presided over by Bilqees Edhi, Mahtab Akbar Rashdi, Sheema Kermani, and Sadiqa Salahuddin. While the Acting Consul-General Kevin Murakami gave the […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) (Dastoor) has rejected all governmental proceedings and plans regarding the infringement of media freedom in the country, and expressed its anger at the designs of the government to chain basic media freedom. The media body also called for an end to the case filed against senior journalist Hamid […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to give Pakistani nationality to all the Bengali residents who have been living in Pakistan since before the fall of Dhaka. Federal Secretary Interior Khawaja Siddique Akbar told this to the Standing Committee on Interior of the National Assembly. He said those Bengali families who have been living in Pakistan […]
Karachi: A man lost his life in a clash that began after a boy sexually harassed his daughter in Lyari Taiser Town in Surjani Town police remit on Thursday. SHO Shabeer Ahmed told The News that the clash took place between two groups when the boy, son of Aleem, harassed Hafeez’s daughter outside his residence […]
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday announced 33 per cent quota for women in all government institutions, committees and taskforces while a similar quota will also be reserved for women members in the Punjab Public Service Commission. Addressing a function in connection with the International Women’s Day at the Alhamra Cultural Complex, he also […]
KARACHI: A sessions court on Thursday dismissed the bail application of a suspected midwife in the five foetuses case. Nuzhat Aslam was arrested on Feb 23 at her ‘clinic’ in Chakra Goth in connection with the case of the five foetuses found in a garbage dump in a Manzoor Colony area on Feb 14. The […]
QUETTA: Quetta’s Judicial Magistrate (III) Muhammad Ibrahim Kakar has again issued a bailable warrant for TV anchor and columnist Hamid Mir for his failure to appear before the court in connection with a complaint lodged by a senior lawyer, Khalid Khan Kakar. The lawyer has complained against Mr Mir for writing what he describes as […]
Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: Two television journalists’ attempt to snoop on a Baloch leader and a US diplomat meeting privately in a hotel here on Thursday ended in a fracas and detention of four Punjab police personnel. Islamabad police said they were also looking for seven bodyguards of Jamhoori Watan Party leader Shazain Bugti. They, together […]
ISLAMABAD: On the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2012, President Asif Ali Zardari signed the National Commission on the Status of Women Bill 2012 into a law at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, expressing hope that the Commission would play a significant role as a watchdog of women’s rights and help bring a positive change in women-related […]
Karachi: The body of a young woman, who was shot dead after being gang-raped, was found in Gulshan-e-Maymar on Thursday. The body of the 25-year-old was spotted by passers-by in bushes near the Northern Bypass. After being called to the scene, police took the dead to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem. A […]
KARACHI: Several women members of the Sindh Assembly on Thursday expressed their dismay over an inordinate delay in the passing of a pro-women bill into law despite its passage by the Senate. Taking part in a debate on women’s empowerment on a day marking the 101st International Women’s Day, women members from the Pakistan People’s […]
Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: In Pakistan, we have yet to witness a revolution a la Arab Spring, however, that has not stopped social media users from rattling about the impact the medium has and would have on politics. With the general elections round the corner, some analysts have gone to the extent of predicting that social […]
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