LAHORE: All Pakistan Newspapers Society President Sarmad Ali and Secretary General Masood Hamid, on behalf of the office-bearers and members of the society, have expressed their profound grief over the demise of the wife of Siddiq Baloch, chief editor of Daily Balochistan Express, Quetta, and Daily Azadi, Quetta. They prayed to Allah Almighty to rest […]
ISLAMABAD: An Indian media delegation, which called on Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday, was briefed on the recent developments in Pak-India relations. Hina said the government of Pakistan was committed to a constructive, sustained and result-oriented process of engagement with India. She also noted that since the resumption of dialogue early last year, […]
SUKKUR: Two women were killed over alleged Karo-Kari in separate incidents on Friday. Police said that in village Imam Bakhsh Domki in Jacobabad, accused Ghulam Hyder Domki gunned down his sister-in-law Pyari for having illicit relations. Later, he surrendered himself before the police. Separately, in Salim Abad in Kandyaro, Akhtiar Khatoon was shot dead by […]
Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: Friday saw a rather perturbed Aitzaz Ahsan venting his fury at the media in general and the Jang group in particular. After being refused a judicial gag order against The News from the Supreme Court, Mr. Ahsan warned that writing against him may cost journalists their jobs. While making his gag bid […]
LAHORE: Budgetary allocations for social and economic development of women should be doubled in the forthcoming budget as women in Pakistan are neglected and not getting their due rights. Budgetary allocations for the schemes focused on women development can be possible by cutting down the non-development expenditures and defence budget. These views were expressed by […]
KHAIRPUR: An influential wadera of the Mitho Mari village has declared a 10-year-old girl as ‘kari’ and a man related to her as ‘karo’, issued the girl’s death warrants and imposed Rs600,000 fine on the man. Relatives of ‘kari’ Fareeda Mari, 10, her brother Iqbal Mari, and mother and relatives of ‘karo’ Inayat Mari held […]
By Xari Jalil LAHORE: Prof Ashok Kumar is not afraid of taking a prominent stance on the Rinkle Kumari issue. Fear, he says, is secondary compared to what is happening to the Hindu community in Pakistan, in particular Sindh. “We can’t just sit back and watch what our community is going through,” he says. The […]
By Sa’adia Reza KARACHI: Amid a big round of applause from a packed auditorium, the Dow University of Health Sciences on Thursday presented a lifetime achievement award to Dr Mohammad Ali Jawad of the Oscar-winning documentary, Saving Face. Dr Jawad is a DUHS graduate of the 1984 batch. The ceremony was held on the university […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday remarked that the nation should honour those who had spent their lives in serving people in a particular field. Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan said this while hearing a petition moved by veteran journalist Shafqat Tanvir Mirza who seeks release of his past pension benefits withheld by the National […]
By: Atle Hetland I like to make films that are controversial,” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy said at a large panel discussion organised by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday this week. She was honoured for her Oscar-winning film, Saving Face, by the research and intellectual community gathered in the elegant auditorium at HEC in Islamabad. The […]
LAHORE – A police inquiry has absolved Muhammad Asghar, the main accused in the Faisalabad’s infamous gang-rape case of Samina Bibi. The probe, conducted and completed by DIG Maj (retired) Mubashirullah Khan, has also declared Asghar’s friends as not guilty. “A few culprits, in connivance with a woman, have incriminated the innocent citizens in a […]
By Kamran Yousaf Indian media personnel will visit AJK, Swat and the country’s tribal areas. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has agreed to allow a group of Indian journalists to travel to its part of Kashmir and the tribal areas in a rare development that indicates gradual normalisation of ties between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The Indian delegation, […]
LONDON: Wealthy, educated and modern Pakistani women are increasingly embracing the trend for religious inquiry and observance, said The Guardian in a report published on Tuesday. The paper gave example of the women working in the information technology division of the Bank of Punjab’s Lahore branch where female workers increasingly wear “headscarves tightly wound around […]
NOWSHERA: The journalists Wednesday announced not to give coverage to the activities of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the Alkhidmat group and traders association for using indecent language against them. The announcement came at the general body meeting of the Nowshera Press Club. They accused the JI activists and traders of passing uncalled for remarks about the journalists […]
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