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Daily Archives: September 29, 2012

Gandhara Film Festival begins

By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: A decent variety of films were screened on the inaugural day of the two-day Gandhara Film Festival at the PACC auditorium on Friday. The event opened with a short film ‘Heal’ by Mian Adnan Ahmed. The film has been shown at more than a dozen film festivals around the world. It […]


Bilour offers bounty for future blasphemers too

PESHAWAR: After offering a bounty of $100,000 for the killing of the US maker of an anti-Islam film, Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour on Friday announced to put a bounty on the heads of the future blasphemers, too. Addressing a public meeting here at the historical Mahabat Khan Mosque after Friday prayers, he said he […]


Lawyers rally against movie

ISLAMABAD: Nearly 300 lawyers from Rawalpindi and Islamabad staged a peaceful protest against the anti-Islam film here on Friday. On the call of Rawalpindi Bar Association, the lawyers took out a rally from the district and sessions court towards Islamabad. Passing through Faizabad, Kashmir Highway, Aabpara, Ataturk Avenue and Shahrah-i-Jamhuriat, the rally reached outside Parliament […]


Rallies banned in Karachi for three days

KARACHI: The Sindh government placed a ban on processions and rallies in the metropolis for three days on Friday, hours before a ‘peace rally’ was scheduled to be taken out by religious and political parties and some prominent clerics. Defending the move, a senior official of the Sindh Home Department said the government wanted to […]


Flood death toll rises to 422: National Disaster Management Authority

ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority said on Friday that 50 more deaths had been reported from flood-hit areas of Sindh. NDMA chairman Zafar Iqbal said after visiting the affected areas that 422 deaths had been caused by floods. In some villages, water is three to four feet higher than roofs of houses. He claimed […]