KARACHI: Over the last two months, people have dropped off 11 underage children at the Edhi centre and police stations in various parts of the city. The children, aged between four and seven, included four siblings. Most of the children have been dropped off at the North Karachi police station from Sharifabad and Surjani Town. One […]
LARKANA: Broadcast range of Radio Pakistan Larkana has increased to cover a radius of over 300 kilometres after the installation of high-power 100 kW medium wave transmitter near Chuharpur village on Larkana-Naudero road, said Ali Murad Tanveri, director Larkana station on Friday. He said that PBC director general Sheeraz Latif accompanied by director programmes Fayyaz […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has called upon the federal government to take steps for rehabilitation of the newspaper distribution network in Balochistan. According to a press release, the executive committee of the APNS, at a meeting on Thursday, expressed concern over the breakdown of the network after militant organisations threatened hawkers with dire […]
ISLAMABAD: Ahmed Noorani, a journalist who works for The News, was admitted to hospital after six people on motorbikes chased his car, intercepted it, dragged him out of the vehicle and beat him up roundly here on Thursday. A large number of political figures, belonging to almost all the major parties, termed the attack a […]
A PALL is descending on digital spaces, and threatening every citizen’s democratic right to free speech with real-life consequences. It comes as no reassurance, then, that while Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal insisted people would be allowed to air their political opinions on social media, he also announced that the FIA would spearhead the creation of […]
AFTER a brief period of comparative calm, recent events have served as a reminder of the mortal dangers that journalists in Pakistan face. On Sunday morning in Haripur, Bakhshish Ilahi, the bureau chief of an Urdu newspaper, was gunned down while on his way to work. Journalists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have demanded that the provincial […]
ISLAMABAD: The top court has sought complete details of ‘missing’ persons who are detained in internment centres. The internment centres are set up in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) under the Action in Aid of Civil Power Regulations, which allows the civil government to confine persons accused of terrorist activities. At least 45 […]
As previously reported, the man behind Anwar Maqsood’s most acclaimed theatre play in the recent years Siachen, Dawar Mehmood is set to return with a new play titled Hua Kuch Yoon, starting November 22. The play will tour seven cities, starting Peshawar and then ending up in Karachi by March next year. This time around though, the play […]
LAHORE: The government has handed over 2,000 kanals of the forest area of Punjab to a Chinese company for the construction of the 720MW Karot Hydropower Project. The project, part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, is being executed by the China Three Gorges, by the Karot Power Company (private) Limited and the Private Power and […]
The administration of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city, cancelled the publication licenses or ‘declarations’ of Urdu the dailies “Sahafat” and “Dopahr” on October 20, 2017. Khushnood Ali Khan, editor in chief of both newspapers, said the order was given when he submitted a request to upgrade his printing press and to change the printers. When he […]
On October 27, 2017, Ahmad Noorani, an investigative journalist of the English-language daily “The News International” was assaulted by unidentified men in broad daylight at the busy intersection of Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. Noorani’s car was intercepted by six assailants riding on three motorbikes. They severely beat up Noorani and his driver with […]
Starring Feroze Khan and Sana Javed as a couple in love, Anjum Shahzad’s much talked about TV production, namely Khaani is all set to make its way across TV screens this November. Things have begun on an auspicious note for the production as its recently released posters and teasers have been greeted by fans rather […]
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday passed eight bills, including the Punjab Environment Protection (Amendment) Bill of 2017. The house, chaired by Deputy Speaker Sher Ali Gorchani, passed the Dera Ghazi Khan Development Authority (Repeal) Bill of 2017, the Punjab Environment Protection (Amendment) Bill of 2017, the Punjab Criminal Prosecution Service (Constitution functions and powers […]
ISLAMABAD: The human rights ministry is all set to forward the Christian Marriage and Divorce Bill, 2017 to the Ministry of Law and Justice for vetting, while the Hindu Marriage Act will be implemented at the provincial level, representatives of both communities were informed on Wednesday. The bill for Christians has been pending for five years […]
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