ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has asked Jamaat-i-Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Justice (retd) Wajihuddin to attend a hearing with specific details about programmes and channels referred to in their complaint about increasing vulgarity in local media. A spokesman for the authority said that Mr Ahmed and Justice (retd) Wajihuddin had […]
SWABI: A government primary school for girls was blown up by unidentified militants here on Friday night, according to police. Sources said that three militants planted three improvised explosive devices at government primary school for girls in Sodher area. Two of the explosive devices went off while the third one remained unexploded. Later, it was […]
By: Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has said that all the state institutions are vital and the PPP gives them due respect and wants to take them along. He said that the PPP did not believe in opposition for the sake of opposition as it did not consider political or principled […]
MINGORA: A man killed his wife on a minor domestic dispute in Ghat area of Tehsil Matta, the police said on Saturday. They said Khaliq Shah got enraged over a petty domestic issue on his wife Bakht Qaima and killed her by spraying a volley of bullets on her. She died on the spot and […]
By: MUKHTAR AHMED BUTT Karachi: YOUR editorial ‘Media soul-searching’ (July 22) has touched upon a most sensitive and important subject. Any faults that we find with the media today are due to the lack of any code of conduct and across-the-board implementation. Yet there are some newspapers that display a self-imposed code of conduct while […]
KARACHI: Some 27 of the 395 artefacts seized by the police in a raid last month — with most of them said to be belonging to Gandhara civilisation — were shifted from the Awami Colony police station to the National Museum on Saturday afternoon. Responding to Dawn queries, Sindh culture department’s archeology director Qasim Ali […]
By: Malik Asad RAWALPINDI: An accountability court on Saturday again asked PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and other members of their families to appear before it on Sept 6 in two corruption references relating to Ittefaq Foundries and Raiwind assets. Judge Chaudhry Abdul Haq adjourned till Sept 15 proceedings on the […]
ISLAMABAD: Terming the news story of British tabloid The Sun about passport scandal a conspiracy to damage the country’s reputation, Minister for Interior Rehman Malik, on Saturday, said that a case would be registered against the tabloid’s agent Ali Asad for misstating the facts. Addressing a press conference, Malik claimed that Asad had a Pakistani […]
By: Rabia Ali KARACHI: The conversion to Islam of a Hindu boy working with the Ansar Burney Trust has split the Burney brothers with one defending it and the other calling it a ‘drama’. On Wednesday, chat show host Maya Khan opened the doors to another controversy by televising live Sunil’s conversion in the prime-time […]
By: Sumera Khan ISLAMABAD: With the general elections around the corner, a report shows that an estimated 10 million women in Pakistan remain unregistered in the draft electoral rolls. According to a report provided by the Election Commission of Pakistan, despite constituting 52% of the country’s population, the number of female registered voters was far […]
KARACHI: “Pehchan Ramazan” the most successful and historic Geo TV programme continued on its 8th day where the child reciters of the Holy Quran (Qari) who had come from Gujranwala on the invitation of renowned broadcaster Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain and astonished thousands of TV viewers. Six-year old Qari Muhammad bin Usman recited the Holy […]
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