KARACHI: Top police and intelligence officials on Monday recorded their statements before a three-member judicial commission constituted to probe the attack on senior TV anchor Hamid Mir. The commission comprising Justices Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Iqbal Hameedur Rahman and Ejaz Afzal conducted the in-camera proceedings at the Karachi Registry of the Supreme Court. Those who attended […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court issued on Monday a notice to the provincial prosecutor general to file comments on an application seeking transfer of the murder case of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl from an anti-terrorism court in Hyderabad to Karachi. Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar, who headed a single-judge bench, was hearing the application […]
KARACHI: Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) on Monday urged the government to devise a mechanism for blocking illegal mobile SIMs. In a statement, FPCCI President Zakaria Usman said that illegal arms and SIM cards were the weapons used for creating a law and order situation in the country. “The government should […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued notices to the federation, establishment secretary and law and justice secretary on a plea calling for declaring Urdu as the official language of the country. A single-member bench of the IHC, of Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi, resumed hearing of a plea filed by Akram Chaudhry for […]
LAHORE: Zohra Yusuf was re-elected chairperson and Kamran Arif advocate co-chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) here on Sunday. They were re-elected for 2014-16 in the election held in the commission’s annual general meeting. The vice-chairpersons elected are: Tahir Husain Khan advocate (Balochistan), Sher Mohammad Khan advocate (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Nazish Ataullah (Punjab) […]
Gwadar, on Thursday, became the unlikely launching pad for some glad tidings for the nation. At one level, we had a visual message. There they were, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Chief of the Army Staff Raheel Sharif sitting, metaphorically, on the same table. And this civil-military camaraderie, coming in the wake of some […]
SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid has said that the 3G and 4G spectrum technology has paved the way for information technology revolution in Pakistan and is opening up new vistas of technology upgradation for the countrymen. “Pakistan has also earned the trust of IT world after entering into the 3G and […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to curtail the operations of Afghan cellular phones in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of security issues. Informed sources told Dawn that more than 40,000 SIMs (subscriber identification module) of Afghan mobile telephone companies were operating inside Pakistani territory […]
THIS refers to the news item ‘Four mobile operators qualify for 3G, 4G auction’ (April 17). Why is there no bidder for the expired licence of Instaphone? Telecommunication companies do not want to invest a single penny in Pakistan from their overseas wealth; that too earned from Pakistan. Why was the procedure of auction designed […]
ISLAMABAD: Even though it was scheduled at one o clock on a Sunday afternoon, the proverbial lunch hour, the large hall in which the Kargil discussion took place was jam packed. Journalists, diplomats, retired ambassadors, young and old – it seemed as if everyone wanted to hear about Kargil, the Indo-Pak conflict that took place […]
PAKPATTAN: Punjab Governor Ch Muhammad Sarwar has said that the government is proud of the Pakistan Army. He added that the government has made a strategy to end power shutdowns in the next three years.Talking to newsmen at the Shrine of Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Masood Ganj Shakar on Sunday, the governor said all institutions, including […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for State for Information Technology and Telecommunications, Anusha Rehman on Sunday said successful auction of 3-G and 4-G spectrum licenses will usher an era of prosperity and development in the country adding that it will provide dividends to the people from all walks of life. Talking to NNI, she hailed that she had […]
ISLAMABAD: Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan of the Islamabad High Court will take up on Monday a petition filed by Chaudhry Rasheed who has challenged his removal as chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). Chaudhry Rashid was appointed Pemra chairman on Jan 26 last year by the PPP government and he was dismissed […]
My father, Mansoor Kaiser, was a journalist and I was never particularly great at anything except maybe cricket. I had a general knack for putting words together in an order that made just enough sense, and felt pride in my father’s hard-truth writings wrapped in black silk satire. I cared about facts and analysis, and […]
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