ISLAMABAD: “Encouraged by the remarkable success of the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) over the past four years, Oxford University Press is glad to announce the 1st Islamabad Literature Festival – ILF which will be held on April 30th to May 1st, 2013.” This announcement was made by Ameena Saiyid OBE, Managing Director, Oxford University Press […]
Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: Breaking all records, the ECP website has had enormous hits at the rate of 50,000 per minute. This has compelled the IT Wing of the ECP to take extra measures to cope with the situation. The number of visitors increased unusually on Monday when the people aspiring to see nomination papers of […]
Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Monday informed the Supreme Court (SC) about developing software which will enable overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right to vote in the forthcoming general elections being held on May 11. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad […]
AMID the din of election rallies, the clash of political workers and scuffles and more over tickets and constituencies, two women from Pakistan’s conservative areas quietly stepped forward and filed nomination papers for the May 11 polls. It was a big step for those two women — Badam Zari from Bajaur and Nusrat Begum from […]
Swat – Police have thrashed a private channel journalist when he was covering death of three children in a road accident. As per details, yesterday morning three innocent school going children have been died in a roadside accident at the Gulibagh area of Swat. The children were going to school after they were hit by […]
ASIM QADEER RANA ISLAMABAD – The Election Commission of Pakistan is likely to finalise a code of conduct for the media covering the upcoming general elections 2013 to ensure dissemination of credible and unbiased news. Officials told TheNation on Sunday that the representatives of media organisations, the code of conduct for media has got its […]
Waseem Ahmad Shah PESHAWAR: The provincial election commissioner on Monday turned down around 100 nomination papers filed against seats reserved for women in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as their names were not present in the priority lists submitted by their respective political parties. An official at the PEC office said around 229 nomination papers were […]
LAHORE: The hope of revival of the country’s most important and once vibrant cultural festival — Basant — in Lahore have been rekindled after Punjab’s caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi sought an action plan from the quarters concerned in this regard. Earlier, in last November, the city district government had initiated an extensive exercise, holding […]
KHAR: Badam Zari, the first tribal woman to come forward to contest for a National Assembly seat from Bajaur Agency, has said that she wants to become a powerful voice of women of tribal areas. Addressing a press conference at her house here on Monday, she said that her decision to contest the election was […]
LAHORE: Militants on Sunday targeted a government-run girls school with explosives, however no causality was reported, officials said. According to local police, unknown militants had planted explosives material in government school of the Bannu city which exploded with a loud bang. Resultantly the school building was badly damaged but no injury or causality was reported […]
PESHAWAR – Caretaker Minister for Culture Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mussarat Qadeem has said that efforts were under way to finalize cultural policy of the province and if needed an ordinance could also be promulgated in this regard as culture is the very identity of a nation. However, she said that unfortunately, the culture has been disfigured […]
SUKKUR: Three people were killed on the pretext of Karo-Kari in different areas of the Sukkur region on Saturday. Police said in Village Kakri in the limits of Lakha Road Police Station accused Shah Dost Brohi shot dead his daughter Dur-e-Bakht and her alleged paramour Abdul Qadir Brohi. Later, the accused surrendered himself before the […]
Karachi: The new office-bearers of the KU Journalism Alumni Association were elected on Sunday. Mehmood Farooqi and Abid Hussain were elected as the president and the general secretary respectively. The elections were held at the Karachi Press Club. Khalida Siddiqui and Omer Ansari were elected as vice presidents, Dr Fatima Hassan as the joint secretary […]
By: Anwarullah Khan and Haleem Asad KHAR/TIMERGARA: Two women, one from Bajaur tribal agency and the other from Lower Dir district, made history on Sunday when they became the first tribal women to file nomination papers to contest elections for National Assembly. Election Commission officials told Dawn that 40-year-old Badam Zari, wife of Sultan Khan, […]
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