SUKKUR: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has strongly condemned the attack on the Hyderabad Press Club and threatening journalists by unknown protesters.He said that any attack on media is tantamount to suppress the voice of nation, which cannot be tolerated. The minister said that the PPP government observed “Youm-e-Ishq Rasool (PBUH) to condemn the […]
By: Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Nayyar Bokhari is for the first time faced with a tough case of his six-month-old incumbency, as he is required to recommend unseating of Interior Minister Rehman Malik as senator under the Supreme Court’s order on dual nationality. However, his National Assembly counterpart, Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, had set […]
PESHAWAR: The driver of a private TV channel, Mohammad Amir who was killed in the line of duty during the protest here Friday had been blessed with his second son only six days back. Mohammad Amir, 35, had been working with the private channel for the last almost four years. A resident of Lahori Chowk […]
By: Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has officially demanded of the US government that it immediately take measures to remove from YouTube the sacrilegious video attacking the person of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and take action against the film’s producer. After waiting for several days which saw the country erupt in violent protests and major […]
KARACHI: An exhibition of paintings by Hamid S. Alavi will open at the Citi Art gallery on Saturday at 5.30pm. The solo show will continue till Sept 28. Dawn
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The burning of five cinema halls by a mob on Friday shocked not just the people associated with the business but the art fraternity in general. It strengthened the view held by sceptics who have felt that the space for creative expression and artistic representation is increasingly shrinking in Pakistan. Film […]
By: Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR: Life in the provincial capital was paralysed by riots, the worst of its kind in decades, on Friday after people protesting the production of an anti-Islam film in the US went on the rampage. Protesters emerged on the streets early in the morning and stayed put until late in the […]
By: Khalid Hasnain LAHORE: At least 10 people were injured when groups of protesters tried to break into the American Consulate on a day of charged demonstrations against a profane anti-Islam film here on Friday – officially declared as the Yaum-i-Ishq-i-Rasool (Peace be upon him). Police used teargas and batons to prevent an attack on […]
By: Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD: As violence marred the observance of Love for Prophet (PBUH) Day, the Foreign Office summoned US envoy on Friday and demanded action against maker of the offensive and anti-Islam film and removal of its trailer from the YouTube. US Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador Richard Hoagland met Acting Foreign Secretary Alamgir Babar […]
At least 23 die, over 200 injured on Yaum-i-Ishq-i-Rasool’, Friday which was designated by the government to demonstrate love of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and condemn the anti-Islam video produced in the US by some extremists was hijacked by our home-grown extremists who turned it into a day of unbridled violence, killings, […]
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