KARACHI: Dunya News reporter Kiran Khan, a technician and some other journalists were injured Wednesday in two bomb blasts in Orangi Town, television channels reported. Four people were killed and 13 wounded. Police said the first blast was a suicide attack while the second that occurred in front of an Imambargah gate was detonated through […]
By: Shahid Husain Karachi: Former Environment Minister for State and Regional Councilor of the IUCN Malik Amin Aslam said that Pakistan was in control of the situation surrounding the refugees of climate change. He made the observation at the “Dialogue with Business on Resilience, Climate Change and the Private Sector in Sustainable Coastal Management” event, […]
KARACHI: Proceedings in the murder trial of Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar were rescheduled to November 28 because the Anti-Terrorism Court-III judge was on leave. The trial is being held inside the central jail for security reasons. The last hearing was on November 13, when the complainant’s lawyer backed out of the case and […]
By: TAHIR AMIN ISLAMABAD: Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) gave clean chit to Member (Finance) Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Syed Nasrul Karim Ghaznavi in an inquiry initiated against him, after he was accused of incurring Rs7.609 billion losses to PTA and the exchequer by extending undue favour to various companies. The committee served the charge-sheet […]
By: Sehrish Ali ISLAMABAD: Aftab Ahmed Khan seems to know no bounds. With his expertise as a book writer, forensic expert, artist, calligraphy extraordinaire and a Pride of Performance winner, Khan’s latest exhibition at the Rawalpindi Arts Council testified to his experience and skill. Keeping the holy month of Moharram in mind, Khan held a […]
SHERGARH: A special meeting of the City Press Club of Shergarh was held here to condemn the target killing of a correspondent of a private TV channel in Bangor, Balochistan. The meeting was presided over by CPC President Dr Ziaul Hassan. It strongly condemned the killing of Rehmatullah Abid who was shot dead two days […]
LAHORE: Sustaining the objection raised by the registrar office, the Lahore High Court chief justice on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking order to make compulsory hijab for women TV presenters. Advocate Atif Moazzam Khan filed the petition against the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). The CJ took up the petition as an objection case. […]
The 14-year-old girl, whose case took the nation and the world by storm, Rimsha Masih, accused of blasphemy, has been set free by the Islamabad High Court (IHC). Accused of allegedly burning some pages of the holy Quran by the imam of a mosque, she was rounded up and thrown into jail despite the fact […]
By: Naeem Sahoutara KARACHI: The high court has issued notices to the telecom ministry and other respondents to file their comments on the verification of SIM cards. On Wednesday, the Sindh High Court issued notices to the telecom ministry secretary, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman, the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and a […]
KARACHI: In July, the Sindh High Court had declared the weapons licences issued by the interior ministry through Nadra illegal and invalid. But the process is reportedly still going on despite court orders. Armed with evidence in the form of two recently issued licences by Nadra, the petitioners have gone to the court again. Muhammad […]
By: Dr Basit Riaz Sheikh The writer holds a PhD degree from Cornell University and is currently Adviser, Ministry of IT and Telecommunication Pakistan is the only country in the South Asian region not to have tasted the wonders of 3G mobile services. Twice this year alone, the process of bringing 3G mobile services to […]
MULTAN: It is not possible to fulfill the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) demand for equal coverage of all political parties for the next general elections, Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) chairman Justice (retd) Raja Shafqat Khan Abbasi said on Tuesday. Abbasi was speaking to media representatives at the Multan Press Club. Earlier, he had […]
Karachi: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday sentenced three men to life imprisonment in a kidnapping for ransom case. Danish, Shahbaz and Mohammad Faqeer were prosecuted for kidnapping a seven-month-old girl, Maryum, for ransom in the Taimuria police limits on July 16, 2010. According to the prosecution, the defendants demanded Rs0.5 million in ransom from […]
By: Noor Aftab ISLAMABAD: Directing Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) not to play the role of a judge, the Ministry of Human Rights through a letter on Wednesday asked it to submit a report about ban on late night mobile phone packages within a week. A copy of the letter (available with “The News”) showed that […]
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