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Daily Archives: October 29, 2017

Life term for man on blasphemy charge

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RAHIM YAR KHAN: A sessions judge has sentenced a man to life imprisonment on a charge of posting blasphemous content on social media. Spokesperson for the district police officer Umar Saleem quoted Station House Officer of Saddar police station, Sadiqabad, Abdul Hadi, as saying that a complaint had been lodged in July last year against […]


Transgender model and activist Kami Sid to star in ‘Dil e Nadan’

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KARACHI: As the society becomes more conscious of its issues and more people raise their voices against injustice, these issues are slowly being addressed. And television, as much as social media, has a big role to play in it. So, it’s apt that the Pakistani drama industry is addressing these topics and educating people. Express Entertainment, in collaboration […]


Body formed to probe attack on Ahmed Noorani

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ISLAMABAD: Amid indignation and condemnation from all sides, the government on Saturday formed a team to investigate the heinous attack on a journalist in the capital. According to an interior ministry statement, the chief commissioner and the inspector general of Islamabad police have been tasked with investigating the attack on The News reporter Ahmed Noorani, […]


Attack on journalist

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THE open season on journalists shows no sign of abating. And why should it, when there is no semblance of a credible investigation against the perpetrators, and when a supine government has surrendered its duty to protect the fourth estate? On Thursday evening, Ahmed Noorani, a senior journalist at The News, fell victim to a […]