By: Umer Nangiana / Zahid Gishkori / Gibran Ashraf ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday tweeted that the world’s largest video-sharing web portal, YouTube will be restored within 24 hours. Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) officials told The Express Tribune that at least two stakeholders, the interior minister and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) […]
Karachi: It was the screaming of Ume Kalsoom’s children that made her neighbours rush to her Madina Colony residence in the Orangi Town on Friday. The mother of two children had been killed in cold blood by her husband. After spotting the strangled woman, the neighbours informed the police, who shifted the body to the […]
Karachi: The threat of terrorism in many parts of the country, coupled with procrastination on the part of lawmakers in taking effective measures, made 2012 an uneventful year for the cause of women and children rights, experts say. However, at least one law was passed in November, i.e. Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, […]
By: Akhtar Amin PESHAWAR: The human rights cases remained the focus of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) in 2012 as through the court’s efforts over 900 missing persons were released while around 1,000 — allegedly detained and charged in terrorist activities by the law-enforcing agencies — were shifted to the government’s notified internment centres in […]
LONDON: The Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousufzai who was shot in the head by the Taliban has been named The Times “Young Person of the Year” for her heroism “not only beyond her years but almost beyond belief”. Malala is currently being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for the wounds caused after […]
By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued a reminder to the political parties asking them to file intra-party poll documents and statements of their accounts, failing which they won’t be allotted symbols to contest the general elections. The commission said that the fresh applications had been invited from political […]
HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Culture Sassui Palijo has said that her ministry is planning to gradually convert Bhit Shah into an international cultural city. Plans to establish the Institute of Research and Music Academy and an art gallery depicting seven ‘surs’ (themes) of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s poetry in the historical town were steps in […]
By: Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: Ramna police station registered a case of murder (under section 302), in the case of the 22-year-old girl, who died after falling from a building, in sector G-11/4, on Thursday night, but the name of suspects were not mentioned in the First Information Report (FIR). “No suspects are being mentioned in […]
By: S. Raza Hassan KARACHI: Cellphone service was abruptly suspended in the city on Friday morning for more than seven hours by the government, citing a terrorist threat aimed at fomenting sectarian unrest. While the prime minister, the chief of the army staff and the chief of the naval staff happened to be in the […]
QUETTA: The Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) has awarded an honorary degree of doctorate of philosophy (PhD) to Syed Fasieh Iqbal, a journalist and former senator, for services in journalism, politics and social work. He was awarded the degree during the university convocation on Wednesday. Mr Iqbal, editor-in-chief of the […]
By: Sajid Zia LAHORE: Apparently to pay homage to the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her fifth death anniversary but actually taking advantage of the thin Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, the Government on Thursday approved seven bills to empower women. The government also okayed two another bills, making a total of nine that […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has completed computerised electoral rolls of 85 million voters in four provinces including Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Federally Administrated Areas to be used in the upcoming general elections. “Two copies of the draft electoral rolls printed on 5.1 million pages containing 85 million voters were handed […]
Hyderabad: The provincial Culture Department has completed its three development schemes that would be inaugurated in next three to four days. According to details revealed by Provincial Secretary Culture Abdul Aziz Uqaili, a scheme of renovation of Shah-Jo-Bagh would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Sindh on December 30 at 4pm, while inauguration ceremony of another […]
LAHORE: Pakistan, with a population of almost 180 million, is world’s sixth most populous country where maternal and newborn child health situation is still a cause for concern. In the country, more than 320 mothers in every 100,000 live births die during pregnancy, childbirth and soon after, leaving behind devastated families. Similarly, nearly 78 children […]
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