KARACHI: A teenager was shot dead allegedly by the security guard of another teenage boy in Defence Society on Saturday, police said. SSP-South Nasir Aftab told Dawn that Hamza Ahmed, 16, was killed when the guard of Shoaib fired at him outside a restaurant in Khyaban-i-Sehar. He said Hamza accused Shoaib of harassing a female […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has asked the Malakand division authorities to take administrative measures to create a congenial atmosphere for the women voters to cast their votes, ensuring their participation in the polling process. Provincial information minister Musarrat Qadeem, according to an official handout issued on Saturday has directed the Malakand division’s commissioner to […]
Karachi: A conference would be organised in Hyderabad in the next week to create awareness among the masses about Sindh Human Rights Act, 2011. Anis Haroon, the Sindh caretaker minister for human rights and women development, announced this at a meeting held on Saturday to review the progress of the projects running under the department. […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Agency lost its music in 2006; when the sound of mortar shells drowned the music from the rabab, and singers were forced to leave their homes. Wazir Afridi, 32, once an aspiring musician now works in a factory in the city. He is one of the many singers who had to abandon both […]
Anil Datta Karachi: An art show opened at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture on Wednesday evening, featuring six young artists with varying styles and schools of painting. There is the more conventional form of art of young Muhammad Atif Khan. Two of his works – Migration (i) and Migration (ii) – are […]
ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Pervaiz Shaukat on Wednesday served Rs1 billion defamation notice to the Secretary Information for providing false and malicious information to the Supreme Court regarding inclusion of his name among the beneficiaries of the secret fund. Pervaiz Shaukat, through Malik Ghulam Mustafa Kandwal, wrote in the legal […]
LAHORE: Capital City Police Wednesday arrested Chief Editor Khabrain Zia Shahid and Editor Imtnan Shahid over non-payment of Rs850,000 dues to widow of an employee under Wage Board award. Both were taken into custody by SP, Civil Lines, Fida Hussain and SHO, Civil Lines. Chairman Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees Nasir Hussain Haideri, on a […]
Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: A Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) professor is under investigation on charges of making sexual advances towards a female student.It is alleged that he first forced the student to write her thesis under his supervision and later fabricated a case of plagiarism after she refused sexual favours. It is the third incident in QAU […]
LAHORE: A mother of three children was found hanging from the ceiling at her house in Qila Gujjar Singh area, police investigators said Wednesday. The family told the police that the deceased, Najma Bibi, 35, had been residing in the three-Marla house of her parents in the Dhobi Ghaat locality. Her mother and sisters were […]
By Ahtesham Ahzar KARACHI: Koel Gallery has inaugurated an exhibition titled ‘Clockwise-Otherwise’ by Shahid Rassam, on Tuesday. The 23 pieces of art on display delighted art enthusiasts, especially the ones who appreciate surrealism. Most of the paintings focus on masks and clocks, symbols that were used consistently in Salvador Dali’s paintings. However, the artist while […]
MULTAN: Two people splashed acid on three women, a mother and two daughters, in village Nauranga on the outskirts of Multan on Tuesday. Police said they had arrested one suspect in this connection. The victims were shifted to Nishtar Hospital. According to police, Altaf and Naveed had some enmity with Aziza Mai and in revenge […]
LAHORE: THE political parties did not take any practical step to end social and economic deprivation of women but make huge claims in their economic manifestos while no party has given imposition of new tax and economic growth plan. These views were expressed by experts in Jang Economic Session on ‘Women observations on political parties’ […]
LARKANA: A man killed his wife over alleged illicit relations near Garhi Khairo on Tuesday.In the jurisdiction of Meeran Pur police station in Baigo Sonami village, accused Mukhtiar Ali Sonami shot dead his 24-year-old wife over alleged illicit relations with his relative Ali Bux. Police handed over the body to the heirs after post-mortem. Source: […]
ISLAMABAD: The information ministry apparently failed on Tuesday to convince the Supreme Court on why it was claiming privilege not to make public one list pertaining to expenditure of its secret fund which had not yet been declassified. It conceded that ‘content writing’ by ‘ghost writers’ on certain subjects was the most expensive item for […]
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