By: HAMDAN SIDDIQUI I WOULD like to make an earnest request to the Supreme Court to spare the lives of all those women who are facing capital punishment. Some may have committed very heinous crimes but the one thing the court must not overlook is why not give them an opportunity more to become a […]
By: Hammad Siddiqui This certainly is the Social Era, where more and more people are getting connected via Facebook, Twitter and other similar platforms. Social media is now also considered an essential tool for journalists. In Pakistan there is a growing number of young journalists, working both in print and electronic media. Some of these […]
By: NIMRAH AMJAD There is no arguing that Media plays a very important role in building society. The media has demonstrated an effect, both positive and negative, on children’s cognitive, social, and behavioral development. It is widely accepted that media has deep influence on children’s mental and physical health. We, therefore, need to find ways […]
Supreme Court on Wednesday again directed federal and Balochistan governments to submit a report within two days on the law and order situation and human rights violations in Balochistan. A two-judge bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry resumed the hearing of identical petitions on law and order situation in Balochistan. The court in its […]
KARACHI: At least four persons, including two police officials, were killed and three others injured in separate acts of violence here on Wednesday. A police sub-inspector, ASI Mohammad Rafiq, 35, son of Atta Mohammad, was shot dead near Al-Haider Sindh Balochistan Hotel within the limits of Memon Goth police station. The ASI was posted at […]
Hina Rabbani Khar’s latest revelations on human rights (HR) in Pakistan at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva give a satisfactory picture of conditions in the country. It shows that every problem that faces Pakistan stems from terrorism, extremism and drones, all three, as the Minister said, being the […]
In what is being called “the perfect storm” — labelled so after the hugely devastating storm that hit the US east coast in 1991 — the US’s eastern seaboard is today in the path of havoc and destruction. Making its way towards the east coast from Cuba and Jamaica, Sandy is a modern day tsunami, […]
By: Ali Hassan ISLAMABAD: Students of the federal capital got their first media lab to give vent to their directorial, editorial, production and designing skills before hovering successfully over the wide stretch of media market, which is the most competitive and least compromising. This state-of-the-art media laboratory has been established with the collaboration of HUDA […]
LAHORE: A large number of students, their parents and other people on Wednesday protested against a school administration for “distributing a blasphemous essay sheet among students”. The protesters later set Farooqi Girls High School in Ravi Road area on fire. People in the area have been demanding police action against the teacher accused of blasphemy […]
By: Kazim Alam KARACHI: Social media may have arrived in Pakistan almost a decade ago, but it has largely remained off the corporate sector’s radar until recently. Under-appreciation of its potential in reaching out to current and potential customers meant that there were little or no deliberate efforts on the part of big brands to […]
ISLAMABAD: Renowned Urdu poet, prolific writer, translator, educationist and broadcaster Samina Raja was laid to rest at the Islamabad Graveyard, H-8 on Wednesday. Raja, who is survived by three sons, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 51 after losing her battle with liver cancer. Born on September 11, 1961 in Rahim Yar Khan, […]
By: Amir Riaz LAHORE: The PPP and the PML-N backed candidate Israrul Haq Mian bagged the presidential slot of the Supreme Court Bar Association for 2012-13 by giving a crushing defeat to the PTI-backed candidate Ahmad Awais. According to unofficial result, Israrul Haq Mian got 1162 votes and Ahmad Awais got only 875. Mian Israr […]
The Internet has been in Pakistan since the early 1990s, and in 2000 there were 133,900 users, or 0.1 percent of the population. The latest figures, for 2011, indicate that there are 31 million users or 17.6 percent of the population – and rising fast. As of February 2012, there were 25 large registered Internet […]
SUKKUR: A man shot dead his wife and her alleged paramour in Jacobabad on Wednesday. Police said Adam Pahoor shot dead his wife Shamshad and her paramour Taghial on the charge of developingt illicit relations in village Abdul Majeed Pahoor in the jurisdiction of the Mubarakpur police station in Jacobabad. Police shifted the bodies to […]
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