News Analysis By Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: The target audience of the rare statement of Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, which raised several eyebrows, included four premier institutions and certain individuals occupying top slots in some of them, and the apparent purpose of this shut up call is to halt actions that end […]
* HRCP says nearly 600 of 943 women killed for ‘honour’ last year were accused of ‘illicit relations’ KHOI RATTA: A Pakistani couple who killed their daughter by dousing her in acid for looking at boys spoke on Tuesday of their regret at the attack which has highlighted the ‘honour killings’ that cost hundreds of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on Tuesday enthralled the visiting Turkish delegates with a cultural show presenting different cultural and traditional aspects of Pakistan. The four-member delegation of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey, visited the PNCA and the National Art Gallery to get the taste of the cultural glimpses […]
By Jamal Khurshid The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued a fresh notice to former Punjab MPA Bilal Khar on a petition seeking the reopening of the Fakhra Younus acid- throwing case against him. Khar, son of former Punjab governor Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, was acquitted by the district and sessions court (South) in […]
By Salis bin Perwaiz Firing during funeral procession of slain MWM leader; bomb found from Numaish Chowrangi KARACHI: Thirteen people, including a leader of the Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslemeen (MWM), and a worker of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) were killed in separate incidents in the metropolis on Tuesday. Among the dead was the production coordinator of the […]
Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: A day after a strongly-worded statement by the army chief, the Supreme Court sought on Tuesday press statements issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) after the May 2, 2011, Abbottabad operation in which Osama bin Laden was killed. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, had taken up […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday extended stay against airing of television programmes ‘intended to scandalise’ the judiciary and directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to ensure implementation of the order. Pleading a petition against such programmes, lawyer Azhar Siddique told the court that after the issuance of the stay order on […]
ALMOST two months after the government blocked YouTube, the video-sharing site remains inaccessible to Pakistanis. Google and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority have failed to reach an agreement over blocking links to The Innocence of Muslims, despite the fact that such arrangements have been made with other governments, and as a result the PTA has stuck […]
Imran Ali Teepu ISLAMABAD: A move by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to install an international telecom traffic filter is also a counter-insurgency measure that will help the government to keep a watch on phone calls from abroad, PTA Chairman Farooq Awan has said. According to him, calls of over 30 million minutes were received each […]
Sadia Qasim Shah PESHAWAR: A number of girls get admission in journalism department of University of Peshawar every year but very few of them join the profession owning to lack of parental support and socio-cultural constraints. “Sometimes family doesn’t allow but most of the time girls don’t have the courage to join the field of […]
RAWALPINDI: The police have launched a crackdown on illegal sale of SIMs (subscriber identity modules) across the city and seized more than 700 SIMs in 24 hours and arrested 10 retailers, police said. The Punjab home department on October 24 ordered action against illegal sale of SIMs, saying they could be used in terrorist activities. […]
Amin Ahmed ISLAMABAD: Unesco and the government of Pakistan will co-host a high-level advocacy event called “Stand up for Malala — Stand up for Girls’ Right to Education” in Paris on Dec 10. President Asif Zardari would attend the event, it was announced on Tuesday. The president and Unesco Director-General Irina Bokova have jointly signed […]
A camera operator in southeast Pakistan’s Sindh district has been killed while covering a gunfight between tribesmen near the town of Larkana, report the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On 29 May 2006, Munir Ahmed Sangi of Kawish Television Network (KTN) was shot dead in the middle of a […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly distressed by reports that abducted Pakistani journalist Hayatullah Khan has been found dead. International news agencies reported that Khan’s body was found today by villagers in the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali, from where he was abducted on December 5. Local government officials and family members told […]
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