By: Khaled Ahmed In a recent TV discussion, my favourite lawyer, Salman Akram Raja, expressed surprise over the fact that 80 per cent of the opinion published in the English-medium press was not in favour of our activist Supreme Court. On the other hand, in the realm of Urdu, there was a near consensus on […]
By: Gulsher Panhwer All those, including the champions of human rights, who are advising the judiciary to exercise restraints are actually suggesting that the judiciary set the constitution aside and let the mighty and wealthy go off scot-free. What kind of human rights activists are those who support a stance which is clearly in violation […]
By: Rana Ghulam Qadir ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Farooq Ahmed Awan on Saturday confessed before a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee for the Cabinet Secretariat that Rs20 to 25 million of grey trafficking (theft) of telephone calls was being carried out in the country every year and that the PTA desperately […]
ISLAMABAD: Following is complete text of the Supreme Court order on Civil Petition No 357 of 2012, Constitutional Petition No 32 of 2012 and Civil Miscellaneous Application No 2911 of 2012 and CMA-3338/12, etc: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN (Appellate Jurisdiction) Present Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, CJ. Mr. Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja Mr. […]
MANSEHRA: The lawyers here on Saturday demanded judicial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape of a girl by police officials. The Mansehra District Bar Association in a meeting demanded Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan to take suo moto notice of the case and suspend the […]
ISLAMABAD: Representatives of the Cable Operators Association (CAO) Saturday strongly rejected a news item that appeared in an English newspaper saying that the CAO and the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) in an earlier rally agreed to black out the broadcast of illegal and obscene TV channels as well as the writ of senior journalist Ansar […]
By: Bisma Tirmizi Do we have to take every status update seriously when our Facebook page is just an audience of friends? Writers, journalists, thinkers, authors, poets, the blessed few in the seven billion and counting, are blasé about their by-lines and aware that they have had a global audience even before the internet, Twitter […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: In a Woody Allen film, a character describes comedy in different ways, one of which is ‘comedy is tragedy plus time’. He goes on to explain that when Abraham Lincoln was killed it was a tragic moment; later on people made jokes out of it. One had a similar feeling watching […]
SANGHAR: Police recovered the woman alleged to have been kidnapped from Karachi from a village near Sanghar on Saturday. Later, she was produced before the media at Mangli police station and then handed over to Khairpur police to be produced before the Sindh High Court, Sukkur Circuit Bench in suo motu hearing of her alleged […]
By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: A five-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, will take up on Wednesday a government petition seeking review of the court’s July 12 order asking Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to comply with the NRO judgment. The federal government had on Aug 8 moved the petition pleading that […]
By: Shakeel Ahmed MULTAN: The provincial archaeology department has made plans to begin preservation and restoration work on the centuries-old tomb of Mai Mehraban. The PC-I of the project has been sent to the Planning and Development Department for final approval, Dawn has learnt. The local archeology department, after preparing a detailed design (PC-I) with […]
KARACHI: There are two kinds of quality artists that use symbols to propagate their ideas. One, who try and be secretive about their art and its content to keep art lovers and critics engaged in their work. Two, those who do not care a hoot about interpretation; they paint the chaos in society and within […]
LARKANA: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has rejected reports about Hindus’ migration from Jacobabad to India as baseless and said they have gone to India to visit their holy places and relatives. Talking to journalists in Qambar after presiding over a special meeting of Sindh cabinet on Saturday, Mr Shah said the Hindu […]
Introduction Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is an independent media research, documentation and training centre working to promote and defend freedom of press. Pakistan UPR Report At least 42 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Pakistan in last ten years and 29 of them deliberately targeted and murdered because of their work. […]
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