KARACHI – A delegation of European Union election observers comprised on four members on Monday met the Deputy Election Commissioner Karachi Tanveer Zaki at Election Commission office Sindh and discussed the electioneering related issues. According to the sources at ECP Sindh informed The Nation that the four-member EU Karachi based Election observers delegation including Nora […]
The bomb that killed 11 people when it went off Monday evening in Bilal Chowrangi (near the Landhi Industrial Area) was pre-planted and had been attached to a motorbike, eyewitnesses (including those who had been injured in the blast) told The News. Most of the victims were pushcart owners who had been standing nearby. Panic […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 14: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has decided to limit its boycott of superior courts to one hour a day and a complete boycott on Thursdays, keeping in view the hardship being faced by litigants. A PBC resolution released here on Monday said that the climb down had been made in the interest […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 14: With most of the lawyers here criticising the decision of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) to relax the boycott of the superior courts, the NWFP Bar Council has convened a crucial meeting of all the bar associations in the province on Tuesday to decide the future course of action. “Our vice chairman […]
IF the death of 14-year-old Mudassar Aslam, the victim of corporal punishment at a school in Hyderabad, doesn’t shake the authorities out of their apathy to conduct a full and transparent inquiry into his case then one can assume that the government remains indifferent to violence against children. Young Mudassar’s case was particularly traumatic. Physically […]
MINGORA: Security forces on Saturday nabbed more than 100 suspected militants in freshly-launched search operations, among whom 41 were said to be aides of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah. Military authorities told The News that security forces cordoned off the area around Kuza Bandai in Kabal Tehsil, which was once militantsà stronghold and started house-to-house search […]
ISLAMABAD (APP) – National library as a big source of informative material endeavors to ensure public access towards diversified knowledge treasures. Head of Reader Services of the Library Halls told the agency that the library would soon launch a project to establish linkages with other libraries through software imported from America. The project aimed at […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: The process of bringing Madressahs into the mainstream education system, the most important part of the Madressah Reforms plan, has been put on hold for the next government, according to sources in the ministry of religious affairs. Two phases of reforms, registration and inclusion of additional subjects in the syllabus, the sources […]
LAHORE – FIA is going to set up Cyber Crime Police Station in the City to curb cyber terrorism and crimes relating to electronic transaction, sources in the Agency disclosed to The Nation here on Friday. It is worth mentioning here that President Pervez Musharraf promulgated Thursday Electronic Crime Ordinance 2007 in the country to […]
EXACTLY two weeks after the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto in a terror strike in Rawalpindi, 24 people were killed, including 21 policemen, and about 60 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the police force gathering outside the Lahore High Court building Thursday morning just ahead of the lawyers’ protest rally. The […]
LAHORE, Jan 10: A suicide bomber struck near the Lahore High Court on Thursday morning, killing at least 24 people and injuring 73 others. Police boots, riot shields and helmets littered the street. The bomber walked up to a police contingent at GPO Chowk, on Ustad Allah Bux Road, ahead of a lawyers’ protest march […]
KARACHI (PPI) – Security was beefed up in Karachi and other parts of province after a suicide bomb blast outside Lahore High Court on Thursday. According to senior officials, police and Rangers have been put on high alert in the metropolis besides intensifying mobile patrolling in high security zones. The additional deployments of law-enforcement agencies’ […]
MINGORA, Jan 9: Security forces on Wednesday pounded with artillery positions occupied by militants in the upper reaches of the Swat valley and claimed to have arrested 18 suspected militants. Officials said that they had arrested a doctor suspected of having links with the militants, adding that he had treated some injured militants. Artillery fire […]
Child sexual abuse now reported to be on the rise has always been there, more prevalent in our suffocated rural milieu than in the cities where busy life, availability of other forms of entertainment together with growing small family norm lessen mixing of children with paedophiles among relatives and neighbours. The reported increase in this […]
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