By: Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday constituted a five-member larger bench to hear from Monday 18 identical petitions, challenging the new Contempt of Court Amended Act 2012. The government recently enacted the contempt law under Section 248(1) of the Constitution, exempting all government office holders, including the prime minister and all other […]
By: Madeeha Syed KARACHI: A short film based on how life was during Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s rule in the late 1970s and 1980s in Pakistan was screened to a packed audience at The Second Floor on Thursday night. The film, titled Haal (Nirvana), is directed by debutante director Assad Zulfiqar Khan as a part of his […]
KARACHI: Millat-i-Jafria has demanded the elimination of the increasing network of banned organisations in the country and said that attempts are being made to push the Millat to the wall. Addressing a press conference at Imam Bargah Khurasan, spokesmen of the MJ — Allama Hasan Zafar Naqvi, Maulana Mirza Yusuf Hussain, Ali Osat and Asghar […]
By: Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: Adviser to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik submitted on Friday nomination papers for a Senate seat from Sindh. The seat had fallen vacant when Mr Malik resigned from the upper house of parliament over the issue of dual nationality. Friday was the last day for filing nominations and by […]
By: Idrees Bakhtiar KARACHI: The illegally excavated Gandhara-era artefacts recovered by police in Karachi on July 6 are dumped in a compound of a police station in Landhi and so carelessly guarded that anyone can easily walk away with them. A man who approached this reporter on Friday and wished to remain anonymous was able […]
MANDI BAHAUDDIN: For broadcasting a report on a private TV channel regarding human trafficking from here, a reporter is facing life threats on phone. Syed Manzar Sajjad lodged a complaint with DCO Tariq Chaudhry about the threats and the DCO has assured him provision of complete security and support. He claimed that the report was […]
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