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Daily Archives: March 18, 2012

Workshop for journalists on climate change from March 20

Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) is going to hold a three-day workshop on titled “Framing responses: Journalist workshop on climate change impacts and challenges”, which will start from March 20 in Islamabad. The journalists from South Asia will be trained by the environmental scientists and climate change experts on how to report on climate […]


Journalist found dead in Swat hotel

MINGORA: A journalist identified as Shah Hussain was found dead at a hotel here Saturday, sources said. Talking to The News, manager of Pamir Hotel, Said Ghani, said that Shah Hussain came to the hotel on Friday evening and asked for a room after showing his identity card. He said the journalist checked into room […]


World class IT university in Lahore soon: Shahbaz

LAHORE: Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that the government is implementing a comprehensive programme for the promotion of information technology in the province. He said the government had introduced good governance through E-government in different sectors which had benefited the masses. He said that an IT university of international standard would soon be […]


Peace through social media

JOSEPH Kony is an outlaw and a war criminal. He runs an organisation called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which forces children to fight or become sex slaves in a war that does not have any agenda. He is wanted by the Ugandan government and now by the International Court of Justice. It was a […]


Relatives kill woman, her lover

OKARA, March 17: A woman was axed to death and her lover was shot dead allegedly by her five relatives in Dharmewala village on Friday. Bina allegedly had an affair with Khurshid. Her father-in-law Sharif and accomplices Fakhar, Mukhtar, Sarfraz and an unknown man called Khurshid to her home and shot him dead. Later, they […]


Free-will women hold demonstration

SUKKUR: Fifteen women, who have embraced Islam recently, staged a demonstration along with their husbands and children outside the press club here on Saturday to show solidarity with newly converted Rinkle Kumari/Faryal Shah and MNA Mian Abdul Haque alias Mian Mitho, the Pir of Bharchundi. Dawn