LAHORE: A woman has sued her gynaecologist and the administration of Fauji Foundation Hospital for Rs1 million over the delivery of her baby, saying she was provided faulty services and operated on without consent. A consumer court will hear arguments on the petition on May 7. Petitioner Saadia Tahir submitted that gynaecologist Dr Fatima of […]
Saadia Qamar KARACHI: Legendary singer Alamgir, popularly known as the ‘Elvis of the East’, was paid a musical tribute by many artists at an event held at the Karachi Expo Center on Saturday. The event titled ‘Dekha Na Tha’ was an ode to the artist’s dogged devotion to his art and his vocal prowess which […]
Karachi: A newly married couple, shattered by their families’ disapproval of their love marriage, committed suicide by jumping in front of a passenger train near Baloch Colony on Monday.Sajid, 23, and his wife Sonia, 20, had eloped from their native town of Vehari, and contracted a court marriage in Okara on May 2, police said. […]
PESHAWAR: A local journalist was kidnapped from the Grand Trunk Road and thrashed by armed men before he was thrown near the district and session courts in an injured condition on Monday. Zahid Merokhel, a reporter of Urdu daily Nayee Baat, was on his way to office when armed men travelling in a white pick-up […]
SUKKUR: Three pe, two women among them, were killed while another person was injured over Karo-Kari in separate incidents on Monday Police said that in village Raja Khan Bijarani in the limits of Tanghwani, accused Imam Bakhsh Chachar shot dead his wife Rashida and injured her alleged paramour Muhammed Sharif Chachar. The police shifted the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission on Monday deferred the appointment of two ad hoc and one additional judge in the Supreme Court for an indefinite period. A meeting of the Judicial Commission was held here in the Supreme Court building with its Chairman and Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the chair. The […]
Babar Dogar & Faizan Bangash LAHORE: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday said the designs of the enemies of peace, who exist on both sides of the divide, must be frustrated, and called for protecting the peace initiatives being taken by both countries for the prosperity of the people of the subcontinent. While addressing […]
KOLKATA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday said the United States believed al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was in Pakistan and she vowed to keep up pressure on Islamabad to find other ‘most-wanted’ militants. “We want to disable al-Qaeda and we have made a lot of progress in doing that,” Clinton told an audience […]
LAHORE: Transgenders (Khwaja Siras) gave a poor response to the campaign for issuing them computerised national identity cards and registering them as voters as directed by the Supreme Court. The National Database and Registration Authority and the Election Commission of Pakistan in collaboration with the social welfare department set up a special desk at each […]
Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: A representative of the missing persons’ families here on Monday said Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif had not yet fulfilled his promise of providing them a grant of Rs5 million even after the passage of over two-and-a-half months. However, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) provided the money as […]
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