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Daily Archives: January 3, 2013

Reporting city crimes

By: ASIF JAH THIS refers to the daily targeted killings and other crimes reported by your paper. A couple of years ago the paper also used to report daily a number of cars/motorcycles stolen and cellphones snatched. Has it been discontinued because in the presence of bigger crimes these are not worth reporting? What the […]


Online voting for better turnout

By: IRFAN MEHMOOD ACCORDING to voter statistics released by the Election Commission of Pakistan, 40 million voters are aged between 18 and 35, which accounts for 47 per cent out of 84.30 million total voters on the electoral rolls. In the conventional method of polling, finding the correct polling location and standing in line for […]


Missing Sikh woman murdered, Lahore High Court told

LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer Aslam Tareen on Wednesday told the Lahore High Court that missing Canadian Sikh woman Rajvindar Kaur Gill had been murdered and one of her killers was in police custody. He told the court that accused Shahzad had also confessed to the crime while main accused Shahid had fled to Germany. […]


Malala’s father given diplomatic role

LONDON: The father of Malala Yousufzai has been given a diplomatic post in the UK. Malala has been recovering at a hospital in Birmingham, England, after she was shot in the head in October in Swat valley. Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, confirmed a BBC report on Wednesday saying that Malala’s father, […]


Cellphones to be blocked today

ISLAMABAD: Mobile phone service will be suspended in several cities and districts of the country from 8am to 11pm on Thursday as part of security plan for Chehlum. The cities and towns where the service will be blocked include Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Multan, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Hyderabad, Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu. The […]