The Election Commission of Pakistan is likely to finalise a code of conduct for the media covering the upcoming general election 2013 to ensure dissemination of credible and unbiased news. An ECP official told APP that after thorough consultation with the representatives of media organisations, the code of conduct for media has got its final […]
Shazia Hasan Injured school girl Ameena Bibi looks at her X-ray while Attaur Rahman, a guest at the Nation Secondary School ceremony on Saturday, speaks to media at the Civil Hospital Karachi emergency ward. -White Star Injured school girl Ameena Bibi looks at her X-ray while Attaur Rahman, a guest at the Nation Secondary School […]
ISLAMABAD: A couple, who contracted love marriage about two years back, reached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) levelling serious charges against each other. Sheikh Amir Naseem filed a petition against his wife Mehvish Gilani after she demanded Rs200 million which was mentioned as a dowry in their ‘Nikah Nama’. Naseem tried to convince the IHC […]
SUKKUR, March 30: A man and a woman were shot dead on suspicion of having illicit relations in Ali Bukhsh Jakhrani village of Jacobabad district on Saturday. According to sources, Nawab Ali aka Takri, son of Mian Bukhsh Jakhrani, was working in a field when suspects, identified by the bereaved family as Kaishoo Khan Jakhrani […]
SUKKUR: A 13-year-old boy was allegedly burnt to death after being subjected to severe torture in Khanpur Mahar town, Ghotki district, on Saturday. The boy, son of a schoolteacher in Khangarh town, faced the savagery in an agricultural area on the outskirts of Khanpur Mahar. He was taken to the Civil Hospital, Ghotki, which in […]
LAHORE: Facing difficulties in finalising candidates for certain constituencies, mostly in Lahore, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has extended deliberations of the central parliamentary board up to Tuesday (April 2), it is learnt. On Saturday, the PML-N board completed the list of aspirants for women’s reserved seats both in national and provincial assemblies. A party official […]
Our correspondent MINGORA: A man killed his daughter-in-law and threw the body into the Swat River in Bahrain on Saturday, sources said. The sources said that Jameer along with his two daughters Shahida and Banafsha killed his daughter-in-law Farzana and swept her body into the Swat River. After registering the case on the complaint of […]
Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: A Pakistani student from Lahore has been elected the Students’ Union President at the University of Salford as the first ever female international to represent 20,000 students for a year. Another Pakistani, Benazir Bhutto, had earlier been elected as Oxford University students’ union president. Mishal Saeed, a former student of Lahore […]
Salis bin Perwaiz Karachi: The principal of a girls’ school was shot dead and six students were hurt in a brazen bomb and gun attack in Ittehad Town, a neighbourhood in Baldia Town, on Saturday. The girls were all aged between eight and 10. The Nation High School was midway through an award distribution ceremony […]
KARACHI: The plights of the religious minorities of Pakistan will not vanish until number of the seats for minorities in the assemblies is increased with respect to burgeoning population, said participants at one-day conference on “Mainstreaming of Religious Minority in Pakistan” held at a local hotel on Friday. The moot was arranged by Forum for […]
Myra Imran Islamabad: In a letter issued on Friday, the federal Ombudsperson asked all government departments and private companies to display the code of conduct for Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace and submit the implementation report to the Ombudsperson within fortnight. The letter introduces the Act to the relevant department which says […]
Three female British activists of Pakistani origin were raped by Libyan pro-government militiamen in the eastern city of Benghazi, after joining an aid convoy bound for Gaza to break an Israeli blockade, officials from several countries confirmed on Friday. Libyan deputy prime minister Awad al-Barassi, who visited the women in the hospital, said the victims […]
SUKKUR: Election for the Hindu Punchayat in Jacobabad scheduled for Friday had to be postponed due to a wave of anger in the local minority community over conversion of a young female member. Reports from the Jhanjhri Street area of the city suggested that the girl, Ganga, daughter of Ashok Kumar, a gold trader, married […]
PESHAWAR – Following a six months skill development training, a local Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) distributed sewing machines and course completion certificates among 30 poor girls here on Thursday. The sewing machines were distributed in a function held at a training centre of the FLOWERS NGO at Haji Camp where Ms Robeena Riaz, an official of […]
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