PESHAWAR: A leading global press freedom watchdog on Tuesday expressed concern over growing attacks on journalists in Pakistan with Abdul Razaq Gul becoming the fifth journalists killed this year. “The authorities must work actively to protect journalists, who keep on being the victims of physical attacks, threats, kidnap attempts and even murder,” Paris-based Reporters Without […]
Sir: In third world countries, the media is paying a heavy price to expose the truth. According to reports in the media, another Pakistani journalist and Express TV bureau chief was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the southwest Balochistan province. Similarly, the dead body of another kidnapped Pakistani journalist was discovered in Karachi last […]
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Coordination Committee has strongly condemned the shooting of Aslam Khan and Muhammad Khalil, reporter and cameraman of a private news channel while they covered Awami Tehreek’s rally at Napier Road, Lyari. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, they termed the incident an attack on the freedom of press. They […]
Akhtar Amin PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court (PHC) Dost Muhammad Khan ruled on Tuesday the superior courts could exercise jurisdiction in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) whenever human rights of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution were violated. The chief justice ruled this during a writ petition of a tribesman who appealed against […]
NOWSHERA: Unidentified militants blew up the two-storey building of a girls’ school in Mera Barakhel in Risalpur on Tuesday, official and local sources said. The sources said that two explosions took place minutes apart at the Government Community Model School for Girls early in the day, damaging its building. The structure developed big cracks and […]
S. Raza Hassan KARACHI: It was a mayhem that has few parallels in an otherwise strife-torn metropolis. Even though target killings and gunbattles between rival militant groups are almost a routine affair in Karachi, rarely a political rally has been fired upon the way it happened on Tuesday evening. And the results of such indiscriminate […]
KARACHI: A man stabbed to death his wife in North Nazimabad on Tuesday, police said. They said that the incident took place at Arafat Town within the remit of the Taimuria police station, where Ghulam Baqar killed his 35-year-old wife, Sajida, and surrendered to the police. Area SHO Kamal Naseem said that the man had […]
THE situation faced by Alamgir, considered by many as the pioneer of Pakistani pop music, is shared by several of the country’s artists. Diagnosed with kidney disease some years ago, he told journalists at the Karachi Arts Council on Monday that it had been difficult for him to raise money for treatment. While insurance paid […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kausar on Tuesday urged female medical graduates to continue working in the health sector instead of switching to other professions. He was speaking at the first convocation of Women Medical College in Abbottabad. The governor urged private schools and colleges not to focus their attention on earning money only and […]
LAHORE: An exhibition of photographs titled ‘Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World’ by the US Consulate opened at Nairang Art Gallery, Habitat Flats, Jail Road, on Tuesday. US Counsel General Nina Maria Fite inaugurated the well-attended exhibition based on remarkable American art form jazz music. The exhibition will continue till May 30. Precisely 55 frames are […]
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