Saleem Shahid and Nasir Iqbal QUETTA: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said on Tuesday that three judges who were part of the bench that heard the contempt case against the prime minister would not be available if a review petition came up. Therefore, he added, two ad hoc judges and an additional judge would have […]
Islamabad Police on Tuesday arrested 10 outlaws including three women drug pushers and recovered a total of 7.070 kilogram hashish, 31 bottles of wine, weapons and looted items from their possession, a police spokesman said. According to details, the police team arrested four drug pushers including three women. The nabbed persons are identified as Rubina […]
BAHAWALPUR – A four-year-old minor girl was raped by her teenage relative when her parents were not present at house in Mauza Qadir Bakhsh, Musafir Khana, some 10-km away from here on Tuesday. According to detail, Fazal Ahmed, father of four-year-old Iqra informed that he had gone to market for buying foodstuffs while his wife […]
ISLAMABAD – A brother on Tuesday shot dead his sister in the residential area adjacent to railway station in the limits of Golra Police Station here, a police spokesman said. Muhammad Akram reported to the police that his wife Madiha Shaheen, 19, was killed by her brother Iqbal. A police team has been constituted to […]
Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to construct two museums to preserve 33,000 rock carvings, sculptures and statures of Buddha discovered from the site of construction of Bhasha Dam, it is learnt. These discovered rock carvings will probably be preserved in fiber glass material same on the lines of Aswan Dam in Egypt.In order […]
Khalid Mustafa ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has agreed in principle to fund the Diamer-Bhasha Dam, a senior official at the Ministry of Finance told The News.“The Finance Minister had written a letter to the president of the World Bank seeking funding for the project,” he said. “The Asian Development Bank (ADB) – the lead financial […]
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday announced an increase in the minimum wage of labourers from Rs7,000 to Rs8,000 and 20 percent increase in their pension, while Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif went one step ahead and announced to enhance the minimum wage to Rs9,000. Addressing a workers convention in connection with […]
Rawalpindi: The renowned journalist David Shah Khan, who died on Monday, was buried at Gora graveyard, Harley Street, here on Tuesday.A large number of his colleagues, friends and journalists attended his last rites led by Pastor Ilyas. Earlier, Dr Maleeha Lodhi expressed her shock and grief over the death of D Shah Khan who worked […]
…EVERY year, hundreds of women from all strata of society face untold suffering … and often death from trauma and physical torture simply because they fail to fulfil purported dowry obligations. A recent case … is that of Yasmin Nuri … who allegedly died of trauma after tolerating a series of abuses from her in-laws […]
ISLAMABAD, May 1: Former minister for law and parliamentary affairs, Senator Babar Awan, now stands truly powerless in the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after removal from the vice president’s position. As PPP co-chairman, President Asif Ali Zardari withdrew on Tuesday a four-month-old notification regarding Mr Awan’s appointment as the party’s vice president and also removed […]
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