ISLAMABAD: Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, the judge of Supreme Court, on Wednesday recused himself from hearing of contempt case against television anchors. “I have expressed my views at a forum on the leaked tape of TV programme, so I will not sit in the bench,” Justice Khosa remarked while hearing the contempt case. A three-member […]
CHINIOT: On the orders of Additional District and Sessions Judge Ziaul Qamar, the Lalian police have booked its 11 officials, including Umar Draz, Muzammal Hayat, Mubashar, Raza, Qamar Suleman, for ransacking the house of Zehran Bibi without any legal permission and tearing off her clothes. Sources, however, said that none of the eleven cops were […]
PESHAWAR: A young girl was killed when unidentified armed persons attacked a house in Imamia Colony, Gulbahar, on Wednesday Police said that the girl who was killed in the armed attack was identified as Nargis, 14. The attackers entered Imamia Colony in Gulberg area and opened fire on Maulana NasirAli’s house. Resultantly, Nargia was killedPolice […]
Islamabad: Abbas Khan Afridi, Minister of State for Commerce has assured the computer industry that the government would revisit the matter regarding general sales tax (GST) exemption for IT and computer industry of the country. While talking to a delegation of Pakistan Computer Association (PCA), led by Munawar Iqbal, the President PCA Central, Abbas Khan […]
CEO and Chairman NetSol Technologies Ltd Salim Ghauri said on Wednesday that IT industry in the next five years will be highly visible in the economy of the country. Talking to a private news channel, he said over 1000 IT companies are working with over 100,000 employees, generating over a billion dollars in IT export […]
SUKKUR: A jirga declared Gulzar Ahmed Shaikh a ‘karo’ for marrying his sister-in-law, Kazbano Shaikh, in Raheem Bux Khoso village. As punishment he was ordered to hand over two girls from his family in marriage, pay a fine of Rs200,000 and leave the village on Wednesday. Gulzar refused to accept the judgement which is why […]
By: Rana Yasif LAHORE: A woman was shot dead on July 20 by her brother, a police constable, for not withdrawing a case registered against him in April. Tariq Shah, their elder brother of the deceased, said Najma, 35, part of the Sharqpur Inter College for Girls’ cricket team, used to wear pants and ride […]
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Admiral Fasih Bokhari (Retd) while presiding over an executive board meeting here on Wednesday, decided to launch complaint verification (CV) against private TV channels. According to a NAB press release, it has been reported that private TV channels deduct 15 percent sales tax from advertising agencies, but they don’t deposit […]
By: Sher Khan LAHORE: Lahore-based band Dr Aur Billa is known for introducing elements of wit and hilarity to Pakistani music with the primary objective of making music fun. With the release of their first album in the ‘90s, almost a decade later, the famous duo has decided to make a smashing comeback with the […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Wednesday claimed that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan governments pledged Rs 7 billion and Rs 3 billion, respectively to provincial disaster management authorities (PDMAs) to meet the challenges posed by floods. NDMA Chairman Dr Zafar Qadir, while chairing the consultation ‘Climate Change Policy and Pre-Monsoon Institutional Response’, […]
By: Durdana Najam It is now one year since Deen-o-Dunya began its transmission from Business Plus, Lahore. The programme was designed to understand religion in the context of everyday worldly life. The idea has been to show that religion is all about lifestyle and unless we integrate the message of Islam into our daily routine, […]
By: Zaib Azkar Husain Karachi: Judicial Magistrate (East) Haleem Ahmed on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of one of the three suspects facing charges of being involved in a bid to smuggle precious Gandharan relics out of the country. Commenting on the bail plea of Asif Majeed, the judge remarked that it would not be […]
LAHORE: Most parts of the city received rain on Wednesday which broke the unbearable humid spell to a certain extent. There is chance of rain today while the skies will stay patchy. Although the weather was partly cloudy yet the heat and humidity ruled most part of the day before it started raining. The MET […]
By: Jamal Khurshid Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday declared the interior ministry’s scheme for the issuance of new arms licence cards through the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) by replacing the arms licence booklet as “without lawful authority and violative of the Pakistan Arms Ordinance and Arms Rules”. The interior ministry’s scheme, […]
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