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Women traffickers arrested

SUKKUR – A heavy contingent of elite force raided a village near Rajanpur on September 6, and recovered nine smuggled women, huge quantity of arms and ammunition. Authorities were tipped off about the smuggling of women. An elite force party raid the village early on September 6morning. They cordoned off the area and the culprits […]


Man kills sister over family honour

LAHORE – A man shot his sister dead outside Lahore High Court on September 6, where she had appeared to defend her decision of marrying the man of her choice. The father of Asma Ali, 21, had filed a complaint against his daughter’s husband in a court in Chiniot, alleging that he kidnapped his daughter. […]


IT deregulation brings massive investment: Awais

LAHORE – The Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has said telecom sector in Pakistan has gone through a tremendous growth over the last four years with a massive investment coming in the sector in the wake of the deregulation of the telecom sector. He said this prior to his departure to […]


Woman killed by husband

SUKKUR – A woman was gunned down by her husband after being dubbed as kari in Abad Lakho village on the outskirts of the city on September 4. Nazul, 20, was married to Hazoor Bux Kharoos last year. She was sent to her father’s house after her husband suspected that she had illicit relations with […]


Girl gang-raped killed

MORO – Some unidentified persons abducted girl (26) belonging to Bagri clan, subjected her to gang assault and strangulated her to death and later threw the corpse in the fields in Moro at ward No. 19. Police recovered the corpse from the fields and handed it over to heirs after autopsy. A case has been […]


APNS hails govt decision to lift ban on ads

The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), on September 5, welcomed the federal government’s decision of lifting the advertisement ban on Nawa-i-Waqt, The Nation and other newspapers by the previous governments. The decision was taken in light of APNS and Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) meeting with the then Prime Minister Ch. Shujaat Hussain and […]


Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 2 No 34

Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 2 No 34 Date 9/6/2004 Download ppf newsletter no 34.pdf


Two killed over karo-kari

SHAHDADKOT – A man and a woman were shot dead under the charges of karo-kari (honor killing) at village Ismail Magsi in the jurisdiction of Qubo Saeed Khan on August 7 . According to reports one Nazir Chandio on suspicion of his wife Zareena (18) having illicit relations with Ali Haider Chandio shot both the […]


Karo-Kari

SHAHDADKOT – A men and a woman were shot dead under charge of Karo-kari (honour killing) at village Ismail Magsi in the jurisdiction of Qubo Saeed Khan on September 4, evening. According to reports one Nazir Chandio on suspicion of his wife Zareena (18) having illicit relations with Ali Haider Chandio shot both the accused […]


Bodies of two girls recovered from Tarbela

HARIPUR – The bodies of two victims who had drowned in Tarbela Lake on September 1 were fished out by the local divers on September 7, evening. According to Khalabat Town­ship police, four persons of the same family – a man his wife and two daughters – were drowned in Tarbela lake on September 1, […]


Women University in NWFP

Letter to the editor… NWFP Chief Minister, Akram Khan Durrani performed the opening ceremony of the first women university in NWFP on September 1, 2004. The university is being set up in the complex of Frontier College for Women in Peshawar. By establishing female campus of Khyber Medical College and a separate university for women, […]


Media studies’ to be given priority, says Mumtaz

PESHAWAR – Vice-chancellor (VC) University of Peshawar Lt. Gen (Retd) Mumtaz Gul has said that Journalism and Mass Communication department of the University of Peshawar would be equipped with modern facilities so that to train and produce qualified and skilled journalists. He was addressing concluding session of a two week workshop on “Parliamentary and Court […]


Women University in NWFP

Letter to the editor… NWFP Chief Minister, Akram Khan Durrani performed the opening ceremony of the first women university in NWFP on September 1, 2004. The university is being set up in the complex of Frontier College for Women in Peshawar. By establishing female campus of Khyber Medical College and a separate university for women, […]


APNS body meets Sindh CM

KARACHI – The APNS provincial committee, Sindh, held a meeting with Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim on September 2, to apprise him of problems faced by publications in Sindh. According to an APNS press release, the delegation expressed its concern over the advertisement distribution policy and proposed that the member publications of the APNS be […]