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Journalist beaten up by PPP MNA

ISLAMABAD, April 13: A journalist working for a television network was thrashed by an MNA of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians in front of the Supreme Court here on Friday. Ghulam Murtuza Satti roughed up KTN’s Shakir Solangi when the journalist requested him to stop talking while he was recording an interview with PPP President […]


3,000 porn CDs burnt in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Peshawar Judicial Magistrate Ashraf Ali set fire to nearly 3,000 pornographic CDs confiscated the police, at the Judicial Complex on Thursday. Court officials said that Faqirabad police had seized the CDs in a crack down on CD shops in Faqirabad three days ago. Police sources told Daily Times that they had started conducting raids […]


Lawyers beat journalists in city

KARACHI, Apr 13: Some of the lawyers today attacked and manhandled media photographers and reporters during their rally on M.A. Jinnah Road. They broke the camera of a photographer and beat the media persons with the batons they were carrying. Some of the media persons suffered bruises and their shirts were torn. The media persons […]


Militants seize music tapes from vehicles

LAKKI MARWAT: At least 15 armed militants belonging to Lakki Marwat district set up a road blockade in Serai Gambila village and took away audiocassettes from the vehicles plying that road. Witnesses said the militants destroyed all the audiocassettes with a hammer that they were carrying and warned the drivers against listening to music. The […]


Lal Masjid’s website ,radio station blocked

ISLAMABAD, April 10 The administration of the Lal Masjid announced on Tuesday that it had launched an international website, Lal Masjid.com, after the blocking of their site by the government. The move comes after the Lal Masjid issued a fatwa against a minister, Nilofar Bakhtiar, pictured hugging a foreigner following a charity paragliding trip in […]


Police refuse to register FIR

NAWABSHAH, April 9: Residents of village Allah Jurio Rind, taluka Doulatpur staged demonstration on Monday against the Nawabshah police for failing to register FIR of the kidnapped people. Led by the former MPA Inayat Rind, Mohammad Bux Rind, Ghulam Mustafa Rind and others, they said some unidentified armed men led by landlord Abdul Hameed Rind […]


44 held for kidnapping Qalandar released

LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), April 9: The Bara Political Administration on Monday released 44 tribesmen arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Peshawar journalist Sohail Qalandar. The released men included 34 Shalobar tribesmen and nine people belonging to the Malikdin Khel clan. All of them were arrested by the Bara Political Administration under the Collective […]


TV channel’s reporter abducted

LAHORE, April 8: Four unidentified people allegedly kidnapped an electronic media journalist from Nawankot on Sunday night. Islam, a cameraman of Labaik TV channel, told this reporter by phone that he, along with crime reporter Irfan Khalid, came out of a plaza after meeting somebody at a newspaper office. “No sooner had we reached the […]


Rally against beating up of journalists

Nawabshah, Sindh, April 08, (PPI): Local journalists took out a protest rally from Nawabshah Press Club up to Fountain Chowk at the Kutchery Road Sunday morning. They were protesting against the culprits who allegedly broke the camera and beat up correspondent of a private Sindhi channel who went for reporting of kidnapping of two persons […]


Another music centre attacked

KOHAT: Another music centre was targeted near the airbase here on Friday morning. The blast partially damaged the Sangam music centre. The cantonment police said the type of explosive used in the blast was not yet known. This is the sixth blast over the last two weeks following a warning issued by the local Taliban […]


Editor,publisher indicted in sedition case

SKARDU, April 4: A local court has indicted the editor and publisher of a Skardu-based monthly magazine in a sedition case. Sessions Judge Yar Mohammad observed that by publishing an article in the March 2004 issue of the monthly magazine Kargil International criticizing President Musharraf’s policies with regard to US-led war on terror, Kashmir and […]


CD sellers asked to wind up their business

ISLAMABAD, April 2: The Khadim-i-Islam Taliban have given an ultimatum to CD and cassette sellers of the Federal capital to close down their business within a month otherwise they would be left with no alternative but to do it by force. In a letter distributed to CD and cassette sellers in Aabpara Market, Super Market […]


Video shops in fear of attacks in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: Shopkeepers selling CDs and DVDs in the city fear religious extremists will force them to close. Groups of madrassa students have been going around markets, especially Aabpara Market, in recent days warning shops to shut down because they were “corrupting society”. Shaikh Adnan, who runs a shop in Aabpara Market, told Daily Times that […]


Police torture on newsmen, lawyers: LHC orders video records of CCTV

LAHORE : While holding an enquiry into police torture on journalists and bar members during the demonstration against the suspension of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Syed Zahid Hussain of the Lahore High Court (LHC) directed the Registrar Inquiry to produce the video recording of close circuit TVs installed in the LHC premises. Earlier, the […]