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SHC seeks details of laws on jirgas and panchayats Listen

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the counsel of a petitioner seeking to move the government to regulate panchayats and jirgas in the country to present any existing laws against the holding of these unofficial dispute resolution councils on record. The SHC on Monday was hearing a petition filed by the Helpline Trust seeking […]


Noorani discharged from hospital

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ISLAMABAD: Doctors have discharged Ahmad Noorani, investigative reporter with The News, with an advice for a weekly check-up. State Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb, her predecessor Pervaiz Rashid and others visited Noorani’s house to ask after his health. They said that attack on Noorani is attack on journalism, adding that the attack is being investigated […]


Journalist body wants govt to arrest Noorani’s attackers in three days

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The Karachi Union of Journalists-Dastoor (KUJ-D) has warned the federal government of large-scale protests if the culprits involved in the attack on senior journalist and The News International staffer Ahmad Noorani were not arrested within three days. At a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Monday, the KUJ-D and representatives of other […]


Journalist body wants govt to arrest Noorani’s attackers in three days

Pakistan Press Foundation

The Karachi Union of Journalists-Dastoor (KUJ-D) has warned the federal government of large-scale protests if the culprits involved in the attack on senior journalist and The News International staffer Ahmad Noorani were not arrested within three days. At a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Monday, the KUJ-D and representatives of other […]


Space for free speech shrinking

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ISLAMABAD: A Chinese editor committed suicide in August 2012. Just a few days before death, Xu Huaiqian gave an interview which was a kind of suicide note. “My pain is I dare to think but I don’t dare to speak out; if I dare to speak out, I don’t dare to write it down, and […]