ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Rehman Malik has said that the government has the greatest responsibility to ensure the protection of the lives and property of the people and all efforts will be made to keep them secure. While talking to newsmen here during his visit to the Police Line headquarters, the minister said that mobile […]
HYDERABAD: A four-year-old girl was subjected to criminal assault in Kotri on Wednesday. She left home to buy something from a shop but did not return. Her father, a labourer, said that they mounted search for her and found her on roadside at Rafwa Mori in unconscious condition. He said that she was taken to […]
KARACHI: The Met Office on Wednesday forecast partly cloudy/cloudy day with chances of light rain in the city during the next 24 hours. According to the forecast, the maximum temperature will remain between 31 and 33 degrees centigrade. Rain/thunderstorm is likely to occur at a few places in Kalat division and at one or two […]
ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to reform its blasphemy laws and protect a young Christian girl arrested for allegedly burning pages inscribed with verses from the holy Quran. Rimsha, who is between 10 and 13 years old and is reported to have Down’s syndrome, was taken into custody in a low-income area of Islamabad […]
By: Nabeel Anwar Dhakku CHAKWAL: Due to pleasant weather on Eid, the oldest village of Chakwal —also the cultural hub of the district — was packed with motorbikes, cars, passengers vans, tractors and trucks. Everyone headed towards a ground located outside the village where one of the most desired and most famous cultural events of […]
ISLAMABAD: A teenage girl was found murdered in a roadside tea-stall at a Bus Terminal, near Pirwadhi on Wednesday, police said. Apparently, the victim was strangulated a day before, and a scarf was found warped around the neck. The incident came to light when a stall holder selling cigarettes spotted the body lying inside the […]
By: Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: Suraya — a 14-year-old house maid — was pushed so hard by her employer that she hit her head against the kitchen counter. Her only fault was that she had asked her employer permission to go home to be with her parents on Eid day. This was not the first time […]
ISLAMABAD: Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are facing the threat of floods because of heavy rains which various districts of the two provinces are likely to receive over the next two days. The late spell of monsoon has already claimed 11 lives in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Bajaur Agency while eight people have died in […]
By: Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: The Indian allegation that the threatening messages and the pictures of genocide incidents were put on website from Pakistan after riots in Assam was rejected. The Interior Ministry sources said that Indian interior minister during telephonic conversation with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik levelled charges against Pakistan for issuing threatening messages […]
KARACHI: Shamim-ur-Rahman, a veteran journalist and special correspondent of Dawn, died on Tuesday morning after a long illness. He was 71. Shamim-ur-Rahman was laid to rest in a cantonment graveyard in Block 17 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The Namaz-i-Janaza was attended by a large number of journalists and politicians, including PPP Senators Raza Rabbani and Saeed Ghani, […]
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