PESHAWAR: Participants of a workshop hailed the media role in Pakistani society and termed it an institution making the necessary effort to provide a platform for citizens, who are either ignored or denied their rights. Addressing the workshop organised by Individualland Pakistan (IL-Pakistan) with the support of the Friedrich-Nauman-Stifting fur die Freiheit (FNF), Mr. Shaukat […]
Log on Facebook to see a mixed bag of businesses touting their goodies. Whether it is about showcasing an entirely new clothing line by a designer, a new service at a spa or customised confectionery, Facebook pages dedicated solely to the same flicker on ones news feed. And the trend is neither local nor restricted […]
By: Waqas Naeem ISLAMABAD: The code of conduct for media proposed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for upcoming elections is vague, general and restrictive and should be made more well-defined, specific and less prohibitive. These suggestions were made by journalists, media analysts and civil society members during a consultative meeting held by the […]
Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to pay the remaining amount of Rs200,000 in compensation to gang rape victim Kainat Soomro. The petition was filed by Soomro, who cited the Sindh government through the finance secretary and the personal secretary to the chief minister as respondents. She submitted that […]
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations former Expert Advisor on Human Rights and Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International, Ansar Burney has condemned execution of a prisoner in Mianwali Jail on Thursday. According to a press release, Burney said that after rejection of mercy petition from President Asif Ali Zardari and the Army Chief, General Ashfaq Parvez […]
KARACHI: Geo TV will telecast special live transmission on the eve of Youme Farooq-e-Azam today (Friday). This transmission will be based on three hours to be started at 4 pm. Dr Aamir Liaquat Husain will illuminate the incident of Shahadat of Syedna Farooq-e-Azam (RA) and most importantly he was the protector of the seal of […]
ISLAMABAD: The November 11 assassination of Haider Ali aka Saleem, the sixth and the last eyewitness in Wali Khan Babar’s murder case, has made it really difficult for the Anti-Terrorism Court hearing the case to convict the arrested assassins and to take them to task. Haider was gunned down hardly 48 hours prior to his […]
DADU: A man killed his teenage sister-in-law and a boy of her age in Fatah Mohammad Kaboro village, 15 kilometres from here, on Thursday reportedly over suspicions they had illicit relations. Dadu SSP Mohammad Usman Ghani Siddiqui said that Imtiaz Kaboro first the accused killed Ayaz Tagar, two kms from the village, and then went […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: In our part of the world, art is not usually seen as a subject that can be readily lumped with philosophy or philosophical concepts. For example, cubism may be defined with certain interpretive textual connotations but it primarily remains a domain of visual art. Therefore those who try and fuse the […]
KARACHI: Two policemen were shot dead off the Superhighway on Thursday evening, bringing the number of policemen killed in the city during the current year to 102. One of the victims just before his death had called his superior officer, informing him that they had been shot at near Wilayat Shah Mazar, DIG (east) Shahid […]
By: Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: A sting operation carried out by the capital police in Darra Adamkhel busted a criminal gang involved in forging identification documents and arms licences, but shattered Nadra’s claims about stringent security measures used in preparing its documents. It seemed that the gang had little to no trouble in breaking and replicating […]
By: Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: The telecom operators complain that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has not taken them on board for the decision to stop selling SIMs at service centres, franchises and retail shops in the country after Nov 30. Talking to Dawn on Thursday some officials of the five telecom operators – Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, […]
By: Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly witnessed on Thursday unprecedented disturbances when Speaker Nisar Ahmad Khuhro announced that the governor had given assent to the Sindh People’s Local Government Bill, 2012. The house turned into a veritable fish market with a ‘shouting match’ between members of the treasury benches and a tiny opposition […]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Farooq Awan, has said that the government had decided to lift the ban on YouTube “in a few days”. Awan said that the website would be “accessible in the country in a few days”. He also said that the auction to sell third generation (3G) mobile telecom licenses […]
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