MINGORA: As many as forty video shops were destroyed when explosives planted inside two adjacent CD and video markets went off simultaneously here on Friday morning. However, no loss to life was caused as the incident occurred at 4 am when no one was in the market. Eyewitnesses told The News that over two-dozen shops […]
HYDERABAD, Sept 3: A reporter of Daily Halchal, Hyderabad Rab Nawaz Chandio was gunned by unknown assailants in Khursheed Colony, on Monday night. He was going to his work place when some armed men opened fire on him and left him seriously injured. He was being taken to the Liaquat Medical University Hospital Hyderabad but […]
BADIN – Journalists of Talhar and activists of PPP took out a procession in protest against the kidnapping of President Talhar Press Club Haji Khan Lashari and Vice president Ammar Singh here on Saturday. The procession converted into a rally, in front of the press club Talhar which was led by former MNA Badin Dr […]
MINGORA: Public transporters in Swat district on Saturday received threatening letters by unidentified people, believed to be Taliban militants, asking them to remove “obscene” photographs and stop playing music in their vehicles or their vehicles would be blown up. The threatening pamphlets were delivered at the Matta Bus Stand here and the short warning for […]
SHABQADAR: A bomb blast damaged a net café in Shabqadar Bazaar in Charsadda district on Saturday evening. However, no loss of life was reported. The bomb that went off at 7.45 pm damaged the café owned by one Arif at Ihsanullah Market. Shabqadar Tehsil Nazim Muhammad Ashfaq while talking to The News alleged that the […]
CHARSADDA- Militants blew up a music centre in lhsanullah Market, on Saturday evening. The music centre was completely destroyed. However, no loss of life was reported. Owner of the shop told TheNation that he closed the centre at 8:00 pm, while the militants blew it up at 8:15 pm, just fifteen minutes after he left […]
SADDA: The Jamiat ulema e Islam-Fazl ur Rehman group (JUI-F) has asked for closure of video and CD shops in the area otherwise it warned of action against them. A meeting of the JUI-F, held with Maulana Ahmad Ali Shah in the chair, expressed concern over the growing number of video and CD shops as […]
KARACHI (August 29 2007): A division bench of Sindh High Court comprising Chief Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed and Justice Faisal Arab on Tuesday adjourned hearing of three identical petitions against recent amendments in Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Ordinance 2002 till September 25, 2007. The petitions were filed by members Sindh Bar Council Salahudin Gandapur […]
Notwithstanding relatively open debates on private TV channels which, in itself is quite a recent phenomenon, in Pakistan, since independence in 1947, the pattern of governance in a way remains plagued by a colonial mindset and shows an obvious lack of strong foundations for open, regular and liberal political discourse and governance. Furthermore, despite its […]
Three music shops were destroyed and several others were damaged on August 25, 2007 in explosions in Buner, in the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. Press reports quoting police officials said the improvised explosives that were used were locally made and were timed to go off around 11:00 PM. The music and video […]
Three music shops were destroyed and several others were damaged on 25 August 2007 in explosions in Buner, in the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. Press reports quoting police officials said the improvised explosives that were used were locally made and were timed to go off around 11:00 pm (local time). The music […]
Remarks reportedly made by the Sindh chief minister at a public meeting in Thatta on Sunday that a woman’s rule was ‘a curse’ are abhorrent and betray the kind of feudal and patriarchal mindset that has no place really in this day and age. Perhaps the chief minister had in mind a possible return to […]
M1NG0RA: Threatening letters from an unidentified source have asked video shops owners in Matta tehsil and other areas to pack up their business in 15 days, otherwise their shops will be blown up. Similar letters have been issued to vehicle owners carrying girls to educational institutions, asking them to install purdahs (curtain) on their vehicles; […]
SWABI, Aug 23: A protest demonstration was held here on Thursday against the alleged stoppage of broadcast of Pushto programmes by the Pakistan Television, Peshawar centre. The protesters gathered at Kernel Sher Chowk, where poets and other literary figures criticised the shifting of the Pushto programmes to the PTV National channel. The speakers said successive […]
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