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Daily Archives: December 19, 2012

PAF academy in Risalpur attacked; 18 injured

By: Suhail Kakakhel NOWSHERA: At least 18 people, among them seven security personnel, were injured on Tuesday when two masked men on a motorcycle hurled grenades at them near the PAF Academy Risalpur. Official sources said a large number of job-seekers were waiting at Gate No 3 of the academy for interview when the attack […]


Lik Likoti opens at Canvas

By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The mystery of the unseen has always fascinated writers and artists. Phrases like ‘the fear of the unknown’ and ‘the undiscovered land’ are commonly used or alluded to by creative individuals in their works, for it is from the invisible that they tend to seek the answers to the questions raised […]


Report stresses enforcement of laws favouring women

KARACHI: Experts at a meeting on Tuesday said that though a few pro-women laws had been enacted, their implementation was very poor, various laws discriminatory to women still existed, and that local laws should be made in line with the international agreements singed by the country. They were speaking at the meeting organised by the […]


Protectionist TV industry against ‘foreign content’

LAHORE: Feeling insecure in face of the rising trend of dishing out foreign content (plays) on different local TV channels, United Producers Association and television professionals staged a joint protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Monday against the practice. The protesters, including a number of TV artistes, carrying placards with different slogans expressing their […]


67 journalists killed in 2012

By: Masood Haider and Anwar Iqbal NEW YORK / WASHINGTON: At least 67 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to their work by mid-December, a 42 per cent increase over 2011, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday. The report said combat-related deaths in Syria and targeted murders in […]


Reopening of Khuzdar Press Club lauded

ISLAMABAD: The Press Council of Pakistan has welcomed the reopening of Khuzdar Press Club after two-and-a-half months of closure due to security of working journalists. In the face of worsening law and order situation, the PCP has already taken serious note of the safety and security for journalists of Balochistan and has constituted a three-member […]