• September 19, 2012
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI: The international environmental organisation, WWF-Pakistan on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Civil Aviation Authority with an aim to raise awareness on environmental conservation and associated biodiversity in Pakistan.Nadeem Khan Yousufzai, director general CAA, and Ali Habib, Director General, WWF-Pakistan, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Senior Manager Corporate Relations, WWF–Pakistan and other senior officials of both […]

• September 19, 2012
• Freedom of Expression

By: A B SHAHID No one can deny the importance of freedom of expression – the fundamental human right. But what many forget is a bigger reality: one’s freedom ends where the tip-off his nose ends because exercise of freedom must not hurt the feelings of others. But, in recent years, exercise of this freedom […]

• September 19, 2012
• General News

MULTAN: A man on Tuesday threw acid on a woman over domestic issue here in Qasirabad area on Tuesday. According to police sources, Attaullah contracted second marriage due to which his first wife Kalsoom Bibi and second one Shaista quarrelled frequently. The quarrel took a violent turn when Shaista’s brother Abdul Rauf allegedly threw acid […]

• September 19, 2012
• General News

By: Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: Riaz Fatiana, Chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights, informed a UN mission on Tuesday that incidents of enforced disappearances had declined sharply since the issue became the focus of the judiciary, parliament and media. Talking to Dawn after his meeting with the two-member UN Working Group on […]

• September 19, 2012
• Broadcasting

By: Mahir Ali AT one level, much of the furore over the somewhat elliptically titled film Innocence of Muslims could be described as predictable. After all, we have seen it before. Coincidentally, it comes at a time when The Satanic Verses is back in the news because of Salman Rushdie’s memoir about the personal consequences […]

• September 19, 2012
• General News

PESHAWAR: Community members and women who worked with Benazir Bhutto Centres for Women since 2005 have called upon the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to reconsider its decision of shutting down these centres in the province. They said that while Punjab government was strengthening such centres it inherited from federal government under 18th amendment the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]

• September 19, 2012
• Broadcasting, Freedom of Expression

PESHAWAR: Police on Tuesday used teargas to drive off the people proceeding on Hayat Avenue towards the US consulate in the capital city during a rally against the anti-Islam film. The protesters also pelted stones, but no damage was reported. The rally was taken out by Jamaat-i-Islami workers from Darvesh Masjid. It ended near the […]

• September 19, 2012
• General News

By: Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: A father brutally hacked his divorced daughter to death in the city suburbs because he could not countenance her working in a beauty parlour, her siblings reported to police on Tuesday. Police said Allah Ditta, the accused, was arrested and confessed to the crime. A blood-stained axe he was believed to […]

• September 19, 2012
• Front Page, General News, Print Media

ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has rejected what it terms an irresponsible campaign by some elements in the electronic media to malign the APNS and the print media. According to a press release, the executive committee of the APNS at a meeting held in Islamabad strongly condemned the assertion of some anchorpersons for accusing […]

• September 19, 2012
• General News

KARACHI: A minor girl, who had been missing for two days, was found murdered in Gulistan-i-Jauhar area of the city on Tuesday, police said. The seven-year-old went missing on Sept 16 while playing outside her home in Mobina Town. Her body was found in the bushes near the Karachi University. Police shifted the body to […]

• September 19, 2012
• Broadcasting, Freedom of Expression

By: Amanullah Kasi QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly on Tuesday admitted an adjournment motion for a debate on an anti-Islam film made in the US and demanded a worldwide ban on it. Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhel of the PML-Q tabled the motion soon after the session started with Deputy Speaker Syed Matiullah Agha in the chair. […]

• September 19, 2012
• General News

By: S. Raza Hassan KARACHI: At least seven people, including a three-month-old baby, a 12-year-old girl and a woman, were killed and 22 others injured — the victims predominantly belonging to the Dawoodi Bohra community — when twin blasts rocked a neighbourhood in North Nazimabad on Tuesday evening. It was perhaps the first such targeted […]

• September 19, 2012
• Media and Governance

By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: After almost 30 months of legal squabbling with the Supreme Court over NRO implementation, the government finally blinked. To the surprise of the five-judge bench, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf authorised his law minister on Tuesday to withdraw the famous letter that led to the closing of alleged graft cases against […]