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HRCP, journalists decry curbs on press freedom in Balochistan

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Balochistan has long been a hard place to practise journalism mainly because of a restraining atmosphere for freedom of expression and a restless security situation. However, after recent threats hurled by Baloch militant groups for not giving sufficient space in media, journalist activities and the distribution of newspapers have been suspended and in the entire […]


Does social media threaten democracy?

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Facebook, Google and Twitter were supposed to save politics as good information drove out prejudice and falsehood IN 1962 a British political scientist, Bernard Crick, published “In Defence of Politics”. He argued that the art of political horse-trading, far from being shabby, lets people of different beliefs live together in a peaceful, thriving society. In […]


Landlord booked after his dogs injured minor girl

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MUZAFFARGARH: Police registered a case against a man after his dogs injured a minor girl at Usman Koria village on Sunday. Rukhsana Bibi told Shah Jamal police that she was picking cotton in the fields when a pack of dogs owned by a local landlord, Wahid Bukhsh, attacked her five-year-old daughter Sana. She alleged that […]