By: DR ALFRED CHARLES THE government should lift the ban on YouTube because many people are suffering from the closure of this website, especially students who use it to compete assignments. It would be better to educate people that because of the offensive nature of the material, they should not access it. The government should […]
By: AGHA ALI GOHAR KHAN THE devastating floods in 2010 and torrential rains in 2011 wreaked havoc on Sindh as a number of protective dams on both sides of the Indus were badly damaged and broken at different places. After that, work of strengthening the protective dams was started with the help of the World […]
By: Asghar Ali Engineer RECENTLY, disturbances erupted throughout the Muslim world against the film Innocence of Muslims which was deliberately made to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims. US President Obama refused to ban it or take any action against its makers citing the American law on freedom of expression. Obama said that as long […]
MANSEHRA: Police have arrested six persons, including a cleric and jirga members, for handing over a minor girl as vani to the rival party of her family to settle a feud in Battal area of the district. “We have lodged FIR against nine persons and arrested six of them. The accused first held a jirga […]
By: Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has asked the architects of tax amnesty scheme to discuss it with officials of the finance ministry to assess its international implications, sources told Dawn on Thursday. Reviewing salient features of the scheme at a meeting with top tax officials at the FBR headquarters here […]
SADIQABAD: A joint meeting of lawyers and journalists held in Sadiqabad condemned the alleged police torture on them at a police station and demanded that the chief justice of Pakistan and the Punjab chief minister should take a notice of the “act of terror” committed by the police. Meanwhile, the lawyers’ strike continued for fourth […]
ISLAMABAD: A spokesman for the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has rejected the comments by the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) regarding centralized advertisement policy. The spokesman said the Press Information Department (PID) had not reformulated the advertisement policy, but had just reiterated contents of the existing policy and urged the federal government ministries, divisions and […]
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