By: Dr Qaisar Rashid Mian Zahid Ghani is now an old man. He deserves recognition by the state for the work he performed The year was 1997. Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister (PM) of Pakistan. Aimal Kansi (or Aimal Kasi) was arrested from Dera Ghazi Khan and an American attorney, Robert F Horan, who […]
KARACHI: Abbas Jalbani, a Karachi-based journalist, has demanded the government to conduct judicial enquiry into his son Muhammad Rafiq Jalbani’s murder case. Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday, the journalist informed media persons that his son’s murder case was being ‘mishandled’. “The police is not performing its job well, and […]
KARACHI: A protest demonstration was held in front of the Karachi Press Club on Sunday against the murder in Thatta of Rafique Jalbani, the son of senior journalist Abbas Jalbani. Protesters belonging to the Progressive Youth Front called for arrest of main suspects nominated in the FIR of the case and provision of shelter to […]
ISLAMABAD: Former army cricket coach Major (retd) Ahmad Nadeem Suddle has said Najam Sethi doesn’t know anything about cricket and he is causing harm to Pakistan cricket on the international level. Suddle, who launched a plea against Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) caretaker chairman Najam Sethi in Islamabad High Court, was expressing his ideas on Saturday […]
THATTA: A 35-year-old man was shot dead outside his home in Thatta’s Kumbhar Mohalla, near the Makli Cooperative Housing Society, on Friday evening. The victim, Rafique Jalbani, was a son of Dawn’s Senior Sub-editor Abbas Jalbani and associated with Christian Aid, a non-governmental organisation. Eyewitnesses sitting at a confectionary shop near the scene and a […]
LAHORE: The HRCP has voiced concern over the discovery of 20 decomposed bodies in Bara area of Khyber Agency. The commission also demanded urgent efforts to ascertain the identity of the victims and end the pervasive insecurity across the country. In a press statement on Friday, HRCP said: “The decomposed bodies of 20 persons found […]
KARACHI: Only hours after an anti-terrorism court declared him a proclaimed offender facing Arshad Pappu’s murder trial, Lyari’s Uzair Jan Baloch opened his arms wide for the journalists he invited to his house for iftar. On Tuesday, nearly 500 journalists, from both print and electronic media, made their way to Lyari to break their fast […]
DADU: Drama writer and historian Aziz Kingrani has appealed for protection from two accused Ghulam Nabi and Qurban Lund who were nominated in the murder of his brother Nasrullah Kingrani. Talking to reporters at Dadu press club, he said on Monday that four armed men had shot dead Nasrullah Kingrani when he was coming to […]
KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Chief Muhammad Hussain Mehanti has termed the pillion riding ban, an unjustified act and violation of human rights. He expressed these views while meeting with different delegations at Idara-e-Noor Haq here on Monday. During the meeting, JI Karachi Chief demanded the judiciary to issue order regarding the cancellation of notification in […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s central bank has launched a mass media campaign to raise awareness and acceptance of Islamic finance among consumers in the world’s second most populous Muslim country. The campaign is part of an overhaul of Islamic finance activities in Pakistan, which also includes the establishment of a country-level Sharia board and new rules for […]
By: Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: The sub committee of the Senate Committee on Human Rights has recommended immediately restoring the ministry of Human Rights as a full-fledged independent ministry. The sub-committee of Senate Committee on Human Rights was held with Senator Mushahid Hussain in chair on Tuesday and constituted Journalist Defence Fund to help journalist victims […]
ISLAMABAD: A Senate subcommittee has recommended the restoration of a full-fledged, independent human rights ministry to effectively handle human rights-related issues. The subcommittee of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights made the recommendations at a meeting chaired by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Tuesday. Senator Mushahid also recommended a journalist defence fund to help […]
KARACHI: Some 1,726 people were killed in the city during the fist six months of 2013, showing a steep rise of over 42 per cent against the 1,215 killings recorded during the corresponding period of 2012, says a report. According to the report prepared by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), the single largest […]
KARACHI: A nephew splashed acid on his aunt over a domestic dispute in early hours of Sunday. The woman was identified as Tasleem Bibi, 40, wife of Abdul Rasheed. Police said the nephew, Kamran alias Kami, of victim’s husband threw acid on her aunt at a house in Punjab Chowrangi and fled. Victim was brought […]
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