By: Irfan Husain HERE’S an odd thing: Anum Bandey, the young Pakistani swimmer, broke the Pakistani national record in the Olympics 400-metre medley with a time of 5:34.64. But as she placed 35th, she failed to qualify for the next round. This speaks volumes for the low standards in Pakistan, as well as for how […]
By: (Rtd) Khalid Durrani Karachi: IT is indeed painful to watch some Ramazan special programmes on TV in which the poverty, disease and other personal maladies of handpicked persons are propagated in the most blatant manner. Financial help in the form of charity is then not only requested but also announced on air. Poor men, […]
By: Imran Ali Teepu ISLAMABAD: With erratic rains since the start of the monsoon season, Islamabad may have to brace itself for a water crisis. But even the capital’s lifeline for water, the Simly Dam, is hardly 14 feet above from the dead level, the civic authority is yet to come up with a contingency […]
LONDON: A jury found the Pakistani parents of a teenage girl guilty of murder on Friday — a conviction that came after the girl’s sister turned against her parents, telling a jury how her mother and father suffocated 17-year-old Shafilea with a plastic bag for being too western. Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, were […]
ISLAMABAD: A military court has convicted and sentenced five military officers, including Brig Ali Khan, for maintaining links with a banned organization, the military’s public affairs wing, the ISPR, said in a statement on Friday. They were handed down sentences varying between 18 months and five years of rigorous imprisonment. The military court had completed […]
LAHORE: Raja Shafqat Khan Abbasi, Chairman Press Council of Pakistan on Friday underscored the need for acting upon media code of ethics. “Ethics for journalists are very much there and impression against its non-existence is unrealistic,” he added. Talking to media persons at the Council’s newly established regional office at Aiwan-e-Iqbal he said the code […]
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