ISLAMABAD: A two-day exhibition of handmade jewellery, decorative artwork, flowers arrangements and summer clothes opened at Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) on Wednesday. Senator Najma Hameed inaugurated the exhibition while RAC Resident Director Waqar Ahmed was also present on the occasion. Of the 26 stalls, those featuring gem and fabric jewellery attracted most visitors on the […]
By: BILAL SOOMRO It is good to see that PTV Sports has started broadcasting tennis Grand Slam matches. I was expecting that PTV would be specially broadcasting Aisam-ul-Haq’s matches. Unfortunately, neither any match of Aisam was shown nor discussed in any post-match analysis. Aisam might not be as big a player as Roger Federer or […]
Karachi: President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Sindh government to launch a media campaign for the proposed Zulfikarabad city to clarify any misconceptions created by nationalist forces. The president directed this to Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah who called on the president at the Bilawal […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ansar Burney Trust International is searching for eight missing Pakistanis who are reportedly facing life imprisonment in an Eritrean prison since 1993. According to a press release, Ansar Burney, former UN adviser on human rights and a former federal minister, has contacted the Eritrean government and has also appealed to the Pakistan president, […]
ISLAMABAD: The government is all set to appoint a controversial official who is facing a probe by the Public Accounts Committee, as the new chairman the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA). The Public Accounts Committee, now headed by the ruling PPP leader, discussed in detail the alleged mega corruption and irregularities in different affairs of PTA […]
LAHORE: The HRCP has expressed alarm at the increasing incidents of wanton violence and bloodshed across the country, including the recent killing of at least 18 people in Dasht, this week’s attack on an army camp in Gujrat and daily killings in Karachi. The commission said “HRCP is extremely perturbed over the growing incidence and […]
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary process to create up to two new provinces from Punjab province moved a step further on Wednesday with the National Assembly authorizing its speaker to name a commission to propose demarcation of and allocation of parliamentary seats and resources to the proposed units. The move, likely to provoke heated debates inside and […]
PESHAWAR: A two-member Peshawar High Court bench on Wednesday heard around 150 forced disappearance cases for over seven hours and directed the defence and interior secretaries to file replies along with sworn affidavits in all those cases after checking the whereabouts of the said missing persons with security forces, Military Intelligence (MI), Inter Services Intelligence […]
Salman Khan plans to visit Pakistan in an attempt to convince authorities here that the movie, Ek Tha Tiger”, is not anti-Pakistan. The actor dropped a hint about the visit after the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) wrote a letter to all satellite TV channels and cable networks last week to warn them that […]
KARACHI: “The sapling we had planted by establishing the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) will hopefully grow into a big, tall tree providing plenty of shade to civil society,” said Napa President Zia Mohyeddin while speaking at the academy’s convocation for the fourth and fifth batches at the Arts Council of Pakistan here on […]
ISLAMABAD: Local police are to reinvestigate an almost closed case of kidnapping-for-ransom of a girl at the request of her father. “Sameera is now pregnant and I fear she would be killed, after she delivers the baby, by the family who had kidnapped her in July last year,” Abbas Ali, the father, said on Wednesday […]
LAHORE: A Dubai-returned man had allegedly killed his wife, her nephew and his father-in-law who were found murdered in a rented house in Ameeruddin Park locality of Ghaziabad late on Tuesday. Gujrat-based Rashid, who has been working in Dubai for the last 10 months, his brother Imran, sister Rashida, brother-in-law Muhammad Ali and four unidentified […]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first technical and vocational training university will be established in Hyderabad and approval in this connection has been given in the 11th board of governors’ meeting of the Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA). The meeting held here on Wednesday was chaired by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah at […]
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