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Daily Archives: August 26, 2016

Attack on media houses: 24 more MQM activists remanded in police custody

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KARACHI: While extending the physical remand of three leaders and 11 workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts also remanded on Thursday over 20 newly arrested activists in police custody in a case pertaining to attack on media houses. After the end of their three-day physical remand, police reproduced […]


KP Governor launches tree plantation campaign

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Engineer Iqbal Zafar Jhagra launched tree plantation campaign in FATA by planting a sapling of Pine at Governor’s House Peshawar on Thursday. Additional Chief Secretary, FATA, Fida Wazir, Chief Conservator FATA Sher Nawaz Khan, DFO Fazal Elahi and others were also present on this occasion, besides senior officials of the FATA Forest […]


Organs sale not behind child abduction, AG tells court

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LAHORE: Punjab Advocate General (AG) Shakilur Rehman Khan on Thursday denied before the Supreme Court the factor of vital body organs sale behind the incidence of child abduction in the province. The principal law officer further told a two-judge bench of the apex court that stories being circulated on social media that some gangs had […]


Four girls go missing in two days

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ISLAMABAD: The police are still looking for four girls — three of whom are sisters — who went missing from Islamabad within a span of two days. On Monday, three sisters* went to school in Humak Model Town but did not come back home. Their father*, who is a prayer leader at a mosque in a […]


Pakistan Press Foundation is concerned over the cancellation of broadcasting licenses and arrest of journalists in Zambia

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Edgar Lungu, President of Zambia expressed concern over the over the cancellation of broadcasting licenses of three media organizations and arrest of four media workers of Muvi TV. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Zambia to return the licenses of […]