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Intel India to set up IT centres in Karachi

KARACHI, January 27 2006: Intel India Private Ltd will establish Information Technology (IT) Awareness Centres in all the Union Councils of the city. Initially, a centre equipped with 10 computer systems would be established. The representative of Intel Technology India Private Ltd representative Surendra Arora and Intel Corporation Pakistan’s Naila Qasim informed this during a […]


KARACHI: SHC issues notices to culture ministry: Ban on Indian films

KARACHI, February 01 2006: The Sindh High Court issued notices to the federal culture ministry and the film censor board in a petition questioning the continued ban on import and exhibition of Indian films for Feb 23. The petitioner, Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association, submitted that the ban should be declared illegal and unconstitutional and its […]


Probe into gang-rape case complete

BAHAWALPUR, January 31 2006: On the orders of the chief justice of Pakistan, District and Sessions Judge Syed Ijaz Husain Shah on Monday January 30 completed inquiry into the Shamshad Bibi gang-rape case. The judge during the inquiry recorded the evidence of over 25 people. They included the victim, her husband Allah Bachaya, mother Zainab, […]


Rape victim seeks help

JHANG, January 31 2006: A rape victim has sought help of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Jhang chapter, after failing to convince police to bring to book the accused. At the HRCP office here on Monday January 30 schoolteacher Bilquis Zafar of Garh Maharaja alleged Azhar Dar with the help of Najma and Sattan […]


Girl raped

KABIRWALA, January 31 2006: Two people allegedly raped a girl here on Monday January 30. Reportedly, the daughter of a schoolteacher along with a boy, Muhammad Asif Hassan, came to the PCO of Ghulam Shabbir to make a call. In the meantime, Ghulam Shabbir and his friend Muhammad Akram came there and raped the girl. […]


KARACHI: KUJ elects new office-bearers

KARACHI, January 31 2006: Ayub Jan Sarhandi was elected president of the Karachi Union of Journalists in the election for 2006 held here on Monday January 30. The general secretary, two vice-presidents and the treasurer were elected unopposed. Imran Ahmed and Aamir Shaikh were elected joint secretaries whereas Afzal Nadeem, Syed Shariful Hassan, Ramzan Chandio, […]


Three raped, two kidnapped in different incidents

OKARA, January 30 2006: A girl and two women were raped while two girls were abducted in different incidents. Reportedly, Fatima d/o Amanat Ali of Saleem Haidarwala was informed by her brother-in-law Waris Inayat that her sister Kalsoom was sick and calling her home. Waris took Fatima to the bank of Gehlan Canal where he […]


Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 4 No 4

Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 4 No 4 Date 1/30/2006 Download ppf newsletter vol 4 no 4.pdf


PFUJ units polls today

KARACHI, January 30 2006: Affiliated unions of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) will hold elections on Monday January 30 in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Peshawar and Abbottabad. According to a press release, polling will start in all centres at 9am and continue till 6pm. Around 2,500 voters will cast their votes in the elections. […]


Publication anniversary

ISLAMABAD, January 30 2006: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the press never enjoyed the freedom as it was having now. Speaking at the function hosted by Pakistan Observer Chief Editor, Zahid Malik to mark the publication anniversary of the newspaper, he lauded the work done by Zahid Malik. A large number of newspaper […]


Woman gets bail in hudood case lodged by husband

PESHAWAR, January 28 2006: The Peshawar High Court on Friday January 27 granted bail to a woman in a hudood case instituted by her husband and sent her to a shelter home because her family has refused to ‘accept’ her. Justice Shahjehan Khan Yousafzai, heading a single bench of the PHC, further ordered that accused […]


KARACHI: Journalist dies

KARACHI, January 28 2006: Naseem Taqvi, a journalist, poet and critic, died here on Wednesday January 25 night after protracted illness. He was buried in the Sakhi Hasan graveyard on Thursday. He was 62. A former staffer of daily Nawa-i-Waqt, Mr Taqvi was author of several books of prose and poetry. Source: Dawn Date:1/28/2006


Two boys in chains escape from school

KARACHI, January 27 2006: Police are searching for the principal of a religious school who kept young boys chained up and beat them daily to force them to study. Police raided the madressah in Karachi after 8-year-old Mohammad Ammar and 10-year-old Ahsan Muavia jumped from the roof to escape, still wearing their chains. “One of […]


Case against police for illegal arrests

LAHORE, January 27 2006: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Razvi of the Lahore High Court on Thursday January 26 got a criminal case registered against the officials of the Shahkot police, who had taken into custody a petitioner and his friend from court premises soon after the proceedings in a habeas corpus petition were over. The […]