Thousands of workers hailing from different religious parties and DPC alliance factions participated in Difa-e-Pakistan Council “Hurmat-e-Rasool (PBUH)” march, held to denounce the anti-Islam film agitating Muslims around the world, and against the resumption of Nato supplies, drone attacks and military operation in Fata. The DPC march started from Al-Markaz-e-Islami, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Provincial Head Office, […]
By: Muhammad Yasir KARACHI: Cellular phone companies have sought compensation from the government for their estimated losses of Rs 1 billion caused by suspension of their services twice in the last two months due to security reasons. Sources in the telecom industry said that cellular phone companies have asked the government through Ministry of Information […]
The report released by the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), detailing the workings of the Sindh Assembly, raises important criticisms as well as praise for some aspects of the assembly’s performance. One bright spot is the prominence of women parliamentarians. At the 48 sittings of the Sindh Assembly covered by FAFEN, women lawmakers asked […]
Whereas the 2010 and 2011 floods made headlines, those that struck this year have somehow gone virtually unnoticed. Only rarely does news of havoc caused by floods hits the headlines. The world seems not to have noticed and even within the country, there is a lack of awareness about the miserable state in which millions […]
Karachi: A woman and her husband were shot dead in the Shah Lateef Town police limits on Monday.Mamona Bibi, 28, and her husband Afaq Ahmed, 25, were killed, while her cousin Fatima Bibi, 24, suffered bullet wounds, when armed men barged into their residence in Hingora Goth, opened fire on them and fled. After hearing […]
By: Mohammad Ashfaq PESHAWAR: The provincial cabinet here on Monday approved the much awaited proposed bill for establishing a regulatory authority to register, regulate and look after private schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Briefing journalists regarding the decisions taken in the cabinet meeting, Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the bill titled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
LAHORE: Rallies and protests against the US blasphemous movie continued on Monday as Alami Tanzim Ahle Sunnat and Idara Sirat Mustaqim took out rallies to press for severing ties with the US and expelling its diplomats. The ATAS rally began from Gujrat early in the morning as a motorcade of slogan-chanting and flags-waving enthusiasts reached […]
By: Hamid Mir ISLAMABAD: Although journalism is considered to be a risky profession across the globe now, in countries like Pakistan it is turning into a deadly profession. The September 29th target killing of a TV reporter Abdul Haq Baloch in the Khuzdar district of the trouble-stricken Balochistan has compelled his fellow journalists to stop […]
By: Imtiaz Ali KARACHI: The Sindh People’s Local Government (SPLG) bill was passed in the Sindh Assembly on Monday amid an uproar by the opposition in-waiting. Legislators belonging to the estranged allies of the government, who have applied to sit on the opposition benches, staged a protest at the rostrum for a considerable time, tore […]
PESHAWAR: Difa-i-Pakistan Council on Monday took out a rally on vehicles in the provincial capital against the making of an anti-Islam film in the US and the frequent US drone attacks in the country’s tribal areas, with its leaders warning that the third world war would break out if blasphemous material continued to be produced […]
By: Malik Asad ISLAMABAD: Three prosecution witnesses in the blasphemy case on Monday backtracked from their earlier statements in which they had accused the prayer leader of a mosque of altering the evidence against a Christian girl. The Christian girl was arrested in August but after recording the statements of some prosecution witnesses the police […]
QUETTA: The Balochistan Union of Journalists has called upon the government to arrest the killers of journalist Abdul Haq Baloch, general secretary of the Khuzdar Press Club, who was assassinated two days ago. Addressing a protest rally outside the Chief Minister’s Secretariat here on Monday, BUJ leaders said the government had failed to protect lives […]
By: Bari Baloch QUETTA: Cases have been registered against 26 journalists for violating red zone area while carrying out a protest rally against target killing of journalists while the Station House Officer (SHO) of concerned police station was also suspended, on Monday. Dozens of journalists took out a protest rally against the targeted killing of […]
Abdul Haq Baloch, correspondent for “ARY News” television station and Secretary of Khuzdar Press Club, was gunned down by unidentified armed men on September 29, 2012 when he was on his way home in the town of Khuzdar in the militancy plagued of Balochistan province of Pakistan. He left behind a widow and two sons. […]
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