Karachi: The Sindh government is likely to fire the policemen, who forced a couple to parade naked in public in Gambat city, the provincial law minister said on Wednesday. “Police authorities have issued show-cause notices to the policemen for terminating their services,” Muhammad Ayaz Soomro said while presenting a report about the incident during a […]
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday filed two review petitions, including one against the July 12 order of the Supreme Court on the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) implementation and the other against the striking down of the Contempt of Court Act 2012. In the review petition filed through Attorney General Irfan Qadir in the NRO implementation […]
By: Dilshad Azeem ISLAMABAD: Special news assignment cells are being established in the state-run media entities to campaign against the judiciary and to counter media organizations independently highlighting the executive-judiciary related issues. “One of the government-run organizations has completed its initial work while inducting its team members,” well-placed officials told The News here on Wednesday. […]
LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Rai Ayub Khan Marth on Wednesday refereed the bail petitions in Sapna Khan Murder case to the District and Sessions Judge, Lahore. On Wednesday, initially, the judge reserved the verdict but later refused to hear the case due to personal reasons known to him and forwarded the case to […]
SUKKUR: A man axed his sister to death in Khairpur on the charge of illicit relations. Police said that Abdul Sattar Mari in village Ghulam Abbas Mari axed his sister, Rozina Mari, to death and escaped. There were some reports that the deceased, anticipating being murdered by her brother, had three days ago approached the […]
By: Talat Farooq Over the last few weeks one of the main news items in the UK pertained to the trial of the Pakistani born Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49. On Friday, August 3, Chester Crown Court in Cheshire found them guilty of murdering their teenage daughter, Shafilea Ahmed, in 2003. They […]
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), the representative body of the owners of newspapers, led by its President Sarmad Ali called on President Asif Ali Zardari here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Wednesday night. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, MNA was also present during the meeting.The delegation besides […]
LAHORE: A survey carried out by the Gallup Pakistan on Wednesday found Amjad Islam Amjad the “most popular writer,” followed by the late Ashfaq Ahmed and Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi. A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was asked “Which of the following writers (of literature) do you like the […]
By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: Both sides stuck to their guns on Wednesday and succeeded in setting the stage for another face-off. The Supreme Court issued a show-cause notice to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf for not implementing the NRO judgment while the federal government moved two review petitions challenging the scrapping of Contempt of Court […]
SUKKUR: The body of a woman was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her house in Wasif Niazi village near Pano Akil on Wednesday. Her husband said that she had committed suicide but there were rumours that she had been killed. Dawn
UMERKOT: It rained sparsely and lightly for 15 minutes in the vast Thar Desert late on Tuesday evening, rekindling hopes of water-starved Tharis the insufficient rain may become a harbinger of life-sustaining rains to come. The villages of Ratnor, Menhrro, Ramsar, Kaplore, Viklokar, Roheraro, Umerkot town, Chelhar, Islamkot and Khario of Tharparkar district received the […]
KARACHI: Construction of dams, encroachments on river bed, deforestation and other issues contributing to the disastrous floods in Sindh were brought up by community, NGOs and government representatives at a seminar here on Wednesday. The seminar, a roundtable consultation, on ‘Two years since floods 2010: between moving on and moving away!’ held by the Pakistan […]
By: Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: A policeman booked for rape was released from the lock-up without even being indicted when the victim, in what appeared to be a surprise move, said she was unable to identify him in court on Wednesday. Despite the fact that the young victim, who was a housemaid at the sub-inspector’s house, […]
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