Mehboob Khan, a young freelance news photographer was killed on 28 April 2007 in a suicide bombing aimed at Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, in the northwestern district of Charsadda. Four other journalists were injured by the blast. “Suicide bombings against civilians are appalling,” Reporters Without Borders said. “They aim to kill and maim indiscriminately, […]
Noor Hakim, a reporter for the Urdu-language daily “Pakistan” and vice-president of the Tribal Union of Journalists was killed along with four other people in a bombing in Bajaur, in the northwestern Tribal Areas, on 2 June 2007. “We address our condolences to his wife, son and three daughters and his colleagues in the Union […]
One photojournalist was killed and several injured on 3 July 2007 while covering clashes between law enforcement agents and the students of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad. The administration and students of Lal Masjid have been engaged in confrontations with the government since January. Javed Khan, cameraman of the Islamabad-based daily […]
A cameraman for a local national television channel was among the 138 people killed in bomb blasts in the crowded procession to welcome former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her return to Karachi, Pakistan after eight years of self imposed exile. The two bomb blasts that occurred just after midnight on 19 October 2007 also […]
Zubair Ahmed Mujahid, correspondent for the national daily “Jang”, was riding a motorbike in the town of Mirpurkhas on 23 November, when unidentified armed men opened fire and killed him. Mujahid was killed because of “his articles criticising the situation of the poor,” Mujahid’s elder brother told RSF. He wrote a weekly column called “Crime […]
By: WAQAR LILLAH ISLAMABAD: Recent increase in International calls rate is not due to increase in Approved Settlement Rate (ASR), which is 8.8 per minute, but it is because of foreign operators who are charging high international call rates, National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat was informed here on Wednesday. Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication […]
To block access to one blasphemous video, the government has ended up depriving us of millions of other videos. One of many problems with allowing the government to block websites is that pretty soon, censorship becomes the new norm. The ban on video-sharing site YouTube is well into its third month and we seem to […]
By: Fazal Khaliq SWAT: Two members of a jirga have been arrested for ordering marriage of a six-year-old girl to resolve a family dispute in a village in Swat. Police registered a First Information Report against Bahadar Khan and Umar Zada, residents of Asharey village in Matta Tehsil, under sections 310-A, 511 and 506 of […]
Karachi: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, Vice Chairman PTI Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Secretary General Dr. Arif Alvi, President Javed Hashmi and Information secretary Shafqat Mahmood strongly condemned the killing of Faraz Haider, a production coordinator for the Creative Department of Geo Television, who died due to the firing of Rangers near the Liaqatabad bridge. The […]
By: Salis bin Perwaiz Karachi: Violence continued to rage in the city on Wednesday as 10 people were gunned down, including activists of the Pakistan People’s Party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Bengali Action Committee. Two PPP activists, Mohammad Raza and Jehangir, were gunned down near the Nishan-e-Haider Chowk, Pakistan Bazaar. SHO Ghulam Nabi […]
By: Asif Ali Bhatti ISLAMABAD: The huge corruption of one billion rupees has been unearthed in the projects of E-government of the Ministry of Information Technology. Earlier, the incidence of heavy corruption had been revealed in Rental Power Projects, Pak Steels, NICL and other national projects. The corruption of one billion rupees has been confirmed […]
We witness yet another act of ‘honour’ killing. Fifteen-year-old Anusha, had acid poured over her by her own parents as she slept at her home in the village of Khoi Ratta near Muzaffarabad in Azad Kashmir. She died in agony two days later. Anusha’s brutal murder was ‘punishment’ for ‘looking at boys’. Her mother, Zaheen […]
SUKKUR: An accused shot dead his wife in Khairpur. Police said that in village Sajan Panhyar of Nara desert town of Khairpur, the accused shot his wife Hameeda Panhyar dead on alleged charges of having illicit relations and managed to escape. Police said that body was shifted to hospital for autopsy. The News
ISLAMABAD: A total of 47,300 tents have so far been distributed in the flood-hit areas of Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh and AJK, said an official of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Talking to APP, he said 13,000 tents have been distributed in Punjab, including 5,000 in Dera Ghazi Khan and 8,000 in Rajanpur. In Sindh 14,000 […]
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