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Khyber market blasts: Wounded journalist succumbs to injuries

PESHAWAR: A journalist who was injured in the twin explosions in Peshawar’s Khyber Supermarket succumbed to his injuries on Friday. Shafiullah was visiting the area when two powerful blasts ripped through the marketplace in Peshawar just before midnight on June 11. He received third degree burns and succumbed to his injuries today. At least 34 […]


HRCP calls for restoration of law, order

KARACHI: Expressing concern over the alarming rise in violence in the city, which has claimed over 35 lives in the past few days, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has called for steps to curb the lawlessness and stern action against the culprits. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the HRCP said that at […]


Press Club of India condemns Saleem Shahzad’s murder

* Club says it believes in free press, supports fellow journalists in Pakistan, working under very challenging circumstances LAHORE: The Press Club of India and its members mourn the death of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad, said a press release issued on Thursday. Shahzad’s body was found from a canal in Mandi Bahauddin on May 31, […]


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Six hurt in attack on journalist’s house

BAJAUR AGENCY: Six people were badly hurt when unknown miscreants hurled hand-grenades on the house of a local journalist in Tehsil Khar of the agency, political authorities said on Monday. Local people and authorities said that unknown assailants attacked the house of Syed Zafarullah Banori with sophisticated weapons and hand-grenades at midnight in the area […]


Torture of journalist in Naushahro Feroze: Rally, sit-in staged against PPP leader

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Hundreds of activists of various political parties held a rally and staged a sit-in here on Saturday on the call of the All Parties Alliance against torture on local journalist Ghulam Hussain Soomro by the PPP district general secretary, Karam Shah, three weeks ago. The rally was led by Convener of the All […]


Nizami vows to continue serving national interests

By: Sajid Zia LAHORE — The 70th birth anniversary of Nawa-i-Waqt was marked here with the cutting of a 70-pound cake by Editor Nawa-i-Waqt Majid Nizami while a large number of workers and others were in attendance at the function held at the office building Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Majid Nizami prayed that Nawa-i-Waqt […]


Attack on journalist condemned

KHAIRPUR: The Central Chairman Sindhi Speakers Forum Ghaffar Mahar has condemned the brutal attack on MH Khan, a senior journalist in Hyderabad the other day. According to a press release issued on Saturday, condemned the attack saying the weapons used in it proved that the attackers wanted to kill him. Mahar asked the government to […]