THE place for archaeological relics is a museum. If they are not there, they could suffer neglect or be stolen. At a Karachi police station some Gandhara-era pieces became logical victims of neglect: they were damaged and stolen. An ‘honest’ thief broke the news to our reporter and said he had stolen a Buddha bust […]
JUST when the shock at the last grotesque outrage begins to wear off, Pakistani society seems to throw up a new incident to recoil at. As reported in this paper, the Supreme Court on Friday came down hard on the Punjab administration over reports that a woman had been stoned to death in a village […]
JOURNALISTS in the dock, media houses hurling accusations at one another, public skepticism growing. It’s time for the mainstream media in Pakistan, particularly the freewheeling and hugely influential electronic media, to assess where it stands and how to rebuild public trust and faith in an institution that is quintessentially Pakistani in its nature — there […]
By: NAILA MASOOD Rawalpindi: Pakistani masses are already going through mental agony because of suicide attacks and the so-called ‘war on terror’. I remember when I was a child our parents used to stop us from watching movies or dramas which contained violence or horror. Now there is bloodshed everywhere. Nobody knows who is killing […]
TOBA TEK SINGH: A girl was allegedly kidnapped by seven men from her house in Chak 321-GB near Pirmahal on Friday night. Girl’s father Zulfiqar Ali told the police that Nasir Ali and his six accomplices barged in his house bundled his daughter Nagina into their car and fled. Separately, 15-year old Sidra was allegedly […]
MULTAN: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said those involved in alleged stoning of a woman to death at Khanewal will not be spared and the justice will be ensured in the case. After meeting with the heirs of the victim, Mariam Bibi, who was allegedly killed for cutting grass from the field of a […]
ISLAMABAD: The coming week will be hectic in the Supreme Court. Not only is determining the contours of the new law on contempt of court on the agenda but also cases pertaining to the law and order situation in Balochistan and the implementation of the NRO verdict, in which Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will […]
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