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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
LAHORE: As many as 100 people, including 20 journalists, have registered their names with the registrar office to record their statements as witnesses in suo moto proceedings about police highhandedness on lawyers and journalists during a protest rally of lawyers against the suspension of chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Justice Syed Zahid Hussain of the […]
HYDERABAD: Lawyers and mediapersons on Tuesday continued their protest against attacks on the media and “judiciary” and demanded free press and judiciary in the country. Lawyers continued their protest by observing a hunger strike at the high court, while mediapersons, under the banner of the Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ), also observed a hunger strike […]
ISLAMABAD: Sixteen police officials are being interrogated over the attack on the offices of Geo television channel on March 16, Secretary Interior Syed Kamal Shah told a National Assembly committee here on Tuesday. Shah informed the Standing Committee on Interior that a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) was probing the incident under Section 19 of the […]
KARACHI: Another bomb threat was sent to the Geo News office on Tuesday, which created panic among the staff of Geo Networking. Most of them were of the opinion that it was the enemies of Geo who were trying to divert concentration and stop them from covering the truth. Last Friday, the Geo news office […]
ISLAMABAD (APP) – President Musharraf Monday categorically said there was no such situation in the country to impose state of emergency and assured that the next general elections would be held according to schedule after assemblies complete their term. In an interview with a private TV channel, the president dispelled the rumours about imposing any […]
KARACHI (March 20 2007): The lawyer of an Islamist militant sentenced to be hanged for his role in the 2002 murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl said on Monday that he would use a top al Qaeda militant’s confession to support an appeal. British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, or Sheikh Omar, was sentenced to death […]
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