ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) is an important institution that can play an effective role in redressing the grievances of public and promoting responsible journalism and media ethics in the country. Secretary Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Rashid Ahmad said this on Wednesday during a visit to Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) Secretariat. He assured […]
ATHMUQAM: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Wednesday said that the PPP leaders would sacrifice their lives but never let any harm come to democracy, adding that the government would ensure free, fair and transparent general elections and no one should have any doubt about this. “The process of holding another election will further strengthen […]
By: Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: A retired major was booked by Secretariat police for sexually harassing the Dubai based first Pakistani astronaut N.S. through emails, police said on Wednesday. The case was registered on a complaint lodged by a section officer of Interior Ministry. Earlier, the victim’s father had lodged a complaint against the accused in […]
RAWALPINDI: It is ironic. The mother of five, who sent her unholy cleric suitor from Talagang behind bars on Monday, is now living in fear for her brave act. While Qari MSAC may be cooling his heels is Adiala Jail waiting for his appearance in a court on Friday, his desire-turned-tormentor, Ms SS sits at […]
CHANGA MANGA: The press club office-bearers have condemned fake case against Union of Journalists Kasur District President Sardar Sharif Sohdal. In a joint statement, on Monday, the Changa Manga Press Club members included Asghar Ali Bhatti, Rana Mansoor Ahmad, Ch Khalid Riaz, Ch Riaz Ahmad, Raja Nabeel Kiani and Imran Daar said that the Kasur […]
NANKANA SAHIB: Though a court has ordered the registration of a case against nine seven people, including Nikkah registrar, over the coerced marriage of a nine-year-old girl with a 50-year-old man at a Panchayt, the Barah Ghar police have not made any arrest. Seema, the sister of Allah Ditta was engaged forcibly by her father […]
By: Kazim Alam KARACHI: Some blame it on the alleged covert opposition from mainstream chambers of commerce and industry while others point a finger at the lack of enthusiasm on the part of women entrepreneurs, but the fact remains that the two women’s chambers of commerce and industry established in Sindh side by side about […]
By: Owais Jafri MULTAN: The post-mortem report of a two-day-old girl has confirmed that she was buried alive and died five or more minutes later due to suffocation. The autopsy was conducted by Dr Muhammad Tariq and Dr Rubeena from the Kacha Khu rural health centre. The grave of the child had been dug on […]
SUKKUR: A girl was killed while a boy critically injured as a couple in love attempted suicide in Shikarpur on Tuesday. Reports said that Raheel Phulpoto and Umaya Pathan were in love and but parents of the girl were against their marriage as the boy belonged to a poor family. On Tuesday, both the lovers […]
LAHORE: The condition of the murderer, who attempted to shoot himself to death after killing his wife in a local bank in the Township area yesterday, went critical. Irfan Zaman shot dead his banker wife in a bank a day back and later attempted to end his life by shooting himself. He was admitted to […]
SUKKUR: In an event which appeared to be stranger than fiction, a girl who had been declared dead suddenly appeared before the Sindh High Court’s circuit bench here on Tuesday along with her lawyer, Athar Iqbal Shaikh. According to the sources, Sallih Patt Police Station had registered an FIR in December last year against Abdul […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern at looming dangers for the democratic dispensation in the country and called upon political parties to realise their responsibility to avert threats to democracy. The HRCP Policy Planning Committee, the highest policy making body of the HRCP, which met on Tuesday urged political parties […]
By: Jawed Ahmed Khursheed Karachi: TEACHERS and researchers associated with the profession of teaching journalism have done little for their students to enlighten them on what is currently happening in the West as far as new theories and terminologies of journalism, in particular, and advertising, in general, are concerned. What the teachers of the mass […]
By: FAYYAZ BUKHARI Karachi: IT is observed that our public buses do not have inadequate space for female passengers. On an average, not more than eight women can sit comfortably in the space provided. Secondly, ladies usually have children with them and they also take up space in the ladies section. Then at times men […]
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