RAHIM YAR KHAN – A man stabbed his daughter and son-in-law to death while another killed his wife in separate ‘honouring killing’ incidents here in different areas on Sunday. In the first incident, Rana Anwar, a resident of old Sadiqabad city, some 20-kilometres from here, killed his daughter Iqra and her husband Fiaz. His daughter […]
KARACHI: Rangoonwala Community Centre (RCC) recently organised a photographic exhibition entitled ‘Jam Session Photo Exhibition’, featuring the photographs of various music artists at the RCC VM Art Gallery. Forty snaps of Jazz players who performed in various countries were put on display in the photo exhibition organised in collaboration with the American Consulate’s Cultural Wing. […]
KARACHI: The office-bearers of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) have expressed concern at the injuries sustained by television cameramen in the firing in Lyari. The KPC president, Tahir Hassan Khan, said that two cameramen of television channels were injured in the firing and taken to hospital. In a statement, Khan and KPC Secretary Moosa Kaleem […]
Rabia Ali KARACHI: When the East Zone Women police station was established in 2009, 35 excited officers roamed around the small office, believing that they would arrest hardened criminals and solve heinous mysteries – but only three remain today. The reason being that no such powers were granted to the stations and one by one, […]
‘Honour’ crime: Man kills daughter, husband BAHAWALPUR: A man confessed on Sunday to killing his daughter and her husband in Sadiqabad for contracting marriage without his consent. Rana Anwar told The Express Tribune that his daughter Iqra had married thier neighbor, Faiz, without his permission a few months ago and run away. He said that […]
LAHORE: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said no prime minister from the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would write a letter to the Swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Zardari. Speaking to lawyers at his Lahore residence on Sunday, he said only parliament could decide if he would continue to remain the prime […]
Saleem Shahid QUETTA: The body of a kidnapped British official of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Dr Khalil Rasjed Dale, was found in an orchard near the Airport Road on Sunday morning. “The beheaded body of Dr Dale, kidnapped on Jan 5, was in a plastic bag dumped in the apple orchard,” […]
SARGODHA: A man sexually assaulted and shot a girl at Satellite Town here the other day. A salesman in a local medicine distribution company Babar Khan, a resident of Din Colony allegedly shot and injured his colleague who refused to surrender herself to him for the fulfilment of his sexual desires when she was alone […]
Karachi: Sindh Planning and Development (P&D) Department has approved 48 out of total 67 Education Department’s proposals for development schemes for the Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2012-13, informed sources told Business Recorder here on Thursday. The P&D Department is engaged in formulation of ADP 2012-13 despite shortage of technical staff. Officials of various sections of […]
LANDIKOTAL: Unidentified terrorists on Friday blew up a makeshift girls’ school at Sheikhmal Khel Tehsil, sources said. Bahadur Khan Shinwari, the building’s owner, said female students had been shifted to the place after the destruction of government school. No casualties were reported, sources said. Security forces cordoned off the area and collected evidences from the […]
Journalistic delights Ammara Ahmad It appears from a distance that newspaper journalists are listless and idle ideologues, lost in the saga of a by-gone era. This will seem very true if you visit the office in day-time. But in the night, the picture is very different and happening. Most journalists are creatures of the night, […]
Karachi: The four-year performance of the Sindh Assembly demonstrates that the women MPAs have been leading in the house in terms of their active participation in discussions. A comparative list of the performance of the MPAs showed that NPP’s Arif Mustafa Jatoi submitted 1,179 questions followed by the MQM’s Heer Soho with 1,330 questions, the […]
It’s hard to write about Sunny, as friends knew Murtaza Razvi, in the past tense. Our association spanned over 25 years and although we didn’t meet or communicate very often, it was comforting to know he was there, part of our larger family of forward-thinking, progressive-minded, secular, humane, literature-loving and above all utterly decent human […]
Why have we killed our traditional festivals, which were part of the cultural life and instead tried to hold state-sponsored events calling them a jashan-e-baharaan? Sarwat Ali Two melas in the last week or so were held in Lahore — one at the Alhamra and the other at the Minar-e-Pakistan in which a large number […]
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