CHANGA MANGA: The press club office-bearers have condemned fake case against Union of Journalists Kasur District President Sardar Sharif Sohdal. In a joint statement, on Monday, the Changa Manga Press Club members included Asghar Ali Bhatti, Rana Mansoor Ahmad, Ch Khalid Riaz, Ch Riaz Ahmad, Raja Nabeel Kiani and Imran Daar said that the Kasur […]
NANKANA SAHIB: Though a court has ordered the registration of a case against nine seven people, including Nikkah registrar, over the coerced marriage of a nine-year-old girl with a 50-year-old man at a Panchayt, the Barah Ghar police have not made any arrest. Seema, the sister of Allah Ditta was engaged forcibly by her father […]
KARACHI: Sindh government on Tuesday notified 20 percent increase in net pension of all civil pensioners, with the effect from July 2012. As many as 15 percent increases in pension have been allowed to the new pensioners who retired on or after July 1, 2012. Net pension means pension being drawn minus Medical Allowance which […]
By: Kazim Alam KARACHI: Some blame it on the alleged covert opposition from mainstream chambers of commerce and industry while others point a finger at the lack of enthusiasm on the part of women entrepreneurs, but the fact remains that the two women’s chambers of commerce and industry established in Sindh side by side about […]
By: Owais Jafri MULTAN: The post-mortem report of a two-day-old girl has confirmed that she was buried alive and died five or more minutes later due to suffocation. The autopsy was conducted by Dr Muhammad Tariq and Dr Rubeena from the Kacha Khu rural health centre. The grave of the child had been dug on […]
By: Mavra Bari ISLAMABAD: We have seen models turn into actors, singers turn into designers and cricketers turn into politicians. But it will be the first time a politician turns into an artist. With a rare initiative by a politician, senior representative of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Marvi Memon exhibited her artwork titled […]
By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: Many key officials, who were working in independent information technology funds and companies established by the government, have been sidelined for being a hurdle in the way of misuse of funds, hiring on political grounds and approval of controversial projects. These officials, whose efforts have made IT a $2 billion industry, […]
ISLAMABAD: Pursuant to the directives of the Supreme Court regarding issuing of “Purchies” to voters or any other mode providing voting information necessary for casting vote, the Election Commission of Pakistan with the assistance of National Detabase and Registration Authority (Nadra), has pushed to 138,000 voters of the NA-151 Multan-IV information about name of voters, […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Fine Arts Pakistan (FAP), a local art gallery, on Tuesday organised a group exhibition of three eminent sculptors, Akbar Khan, Latif Ghori and MK Saleem. Khan started his career as a theatre actor and then directed for television and stage. At the same time, he sculptured different mediums including stone, marble, […]
SUKKUR: A girl was killed while a boy critically injured as a couple in love attempted suicide in Shikarpur on Tuesday. Reports said that Raheel Phulpoto and Umaya Pathan were in love and but parents of the girl were against their marriage as the boy belonged to a poor family. On Tuesday, both the lovers […]
LAHORE: The condition of the murderer, who attempted to shoot himself to death after killing his wife in a local bank in the Township area yesterday, went critical. Irfan Zaman shot dead his banker wife in a bank a day back and later attempted to end his life by shooting himself. He was admitted to […]
SUKKUR: In an event which appeared to be stranger than fiction, a girl who had been declared dead suddenly appeared before the Sindh High Court’s circuit bench here on Tuesday along with her lawyer, Athar Iqbal Shaikh. According to the sources, Sallih Patt Police Station had registered an FIR in December last year against Abdul […]
Karachi: The Sindh Chief Minister has announced Rs200 million for polio-eradication programme while hoping that polio will likely be eradicated from the province by next year. Syed Qaim Ali Shah stated this while talking to a delegation of Rotary Polio Team of USA and Canada, who called on him at the CM House on Tuesday. […]
By: Barkha Shah An exciting initiative by young Indians and Pakistanis seeks to change mindsets through virtual interaction, testimonials and more Had a conversation today with someone across the border. Sure, he belongs to a country that my nation has been in war with before. And sure, I had a few reservations. But a few […]
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