By Asad Kharal LAHORE: A year after journalist Saleem Shahzad was assassinated, his killers are yet to be apprehended and recommendations of an inquiry commission formed to probe the incident implemented, said the victim’s family and human rights groups. By not pointing out the culprits behind Shahzad’s murder, the commission’s findings have granted a ‘licence […]
Ismail Khan PESHAWAR: A tribal physician who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden was convicted on charges of colluding with the banned Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) and its chief, Mangal Bagh, court documents reveal. The four-member tribal court did not entertain evidence relating to Dr Shakil Afridi’s involvement with the CIA, citing lack of jurisdiction […]
Shazia Hasan KARACHI: The impact of globalisation, corporatism and glamourisation on the media, interference by the management and the government in editorial content and journalists’ credibility were just some of the topics touched upon by senior media persons speaking at the third international conference organised by the Mass Communications Department of the Federal Urdu University […]
HYDERABAD: A woman of Mirpurkhas has asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to provide justice to her against influential people of the area who were harassing her family. Zulekha wife of Mohammad Ibrahim said in a press conference on Tuesday said that Sattar Halepoto and Anwar Panhwar demanded hand of her daughter and on refusal […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice on Tuesday approved the MQM’s Constitution amendment bill giving representation to the “disabled persons” in the parliament and deferred the party’s bill on new provinces due to lack of quorum. The private member bill seeking amendments to Articles 50 and 59 of the Constitution for […]
Tribal law is traditionally without ‘due process’. It is called ‘quick justice’, often condoned with the adage ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ and wrongly equated with Islamic sharia. PHOTO: AFP A tribal jirga in Kohistan in the Hazara division of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has done something that reminds us of the days of the Taliban rule in […]
Lahore: A strong selection of works by Pakistani and other major South Asian artists are being put at the annual summer sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art on June 7 in New Bond Street, London. The auction has been arranged by Bonhams 1793 Ltd, the world’s leading auction house in Pakistani art and […]
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A man shot and killed his sister over suspicion of having illicit relations with a youth in Village Sharbat Khan on Monday. Police said that the suspect namely Abdul Wahab opened fire at his sister Baaz Khatoon with his shot gun in his house in Village Sharbat Khan and killed her. The […]
LAHORE: A western journalist accused by Mansoor Ijaz’s counsel of receiving funds from a Pakistani embassy over memo scandal has denied working for Pakistan. David Frum referred to a report published in May 23 edition of Daily Times, which read, “Counsel Akram Sheikh had claimed in a statement that a Pakistani embassy provided funds to […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Artists have been using watercolours for centuries. It is one of the oldest mediums of drawing pictures, especially landscapes. This makes the art form all the more difficult to appreciate because it is generally believed that the older the genre, the more scope it has for experimentation. Strangely, innovation in terms of […]
PESHAWAR: A brother of Dr Shakeel Afridi sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping the CIA trace down Osama bin Laden has denied all charges levelled against his brother. “My brother is innocent and has done nothing wrong. He has been made a scapegoat. He did everything in the larger interest of the country,” […]
THE Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, Bill Paterson, has claimed that terror outfits that have embraced the rise of technology, the Internet in particular, to spread their messages and attract followers, are using Facebook to recruit loners from western nations like Australia to their cause. He said social media has also encouraged the rise of home-grown […]
QUETTA: Abdul Qadir Hajizai, the headmaster of a middle school and a part time journalist, was gunned down in Basima area of Washik district on Monday, Levies Force sources said. Mr Hajizai was going home when armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on him. He was injured and taken to hospital where he died. […]
Azfar ul-Ashfaque KARACHI: Accusing Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif of hatching a conspiracy to divide Sindh, a four-member ministerial committee of the Pakistan People’s Party has ruled out the possibility of holding dialogue with elements demanding a Mohajir province. The committee was constituted at a recent cabinet meeting by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to […]
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