SUKKUR: Kidnapped journalist Shahbaz Pathan and his friend Naveed Mangi returned home on March 26, afternoon after having been released by dacoits at the intervention of local influentials and the police pressure. They remained hostage for 22 days. Sources said the hostages had been released without payment of any ransom. They told reporters they and […]
MULTAN — A farmer, Azhar Ali Khanana Siyal killed his wife and her paramour in village Lashkari (Jhang), some 100 miles north of Multan. “Pathani Bibi was missing from home when her husband Azhar Ali came back. He searched her and found her in a field with Shahdat. Hussain alias Shaddu, a husband of her […]
QUETTA: A meeting of the Council of Complaints (CoCs) PEMRA held March 26, warned cable television operators of Balochistan not to originate local channels and broadcast the banned channels through their network otherwise strict action would take against them. The meeting chaired by CoCs Commissioner Faqir Mohammad Baloch also directed regional office of Pemra to […]
LAHORE: Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Shilpa Shetty have said the peace process between Pakistan and India will get a boost with the launching of co-productions between the two countries. Speaking at a news conference at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club on March 26, Mr. Kumar said some co-productions were being discussed with […]
Pakistani journalist Khawar Mehdi Rizvi was granted bail on March 27, by Anti-Terrorism Court in Quetta, province of Balochistan. Judge Mohammad Hashim Kakar approved the bail application and ordered his release on deposit of surety bond of Rs200,000 (about US$ 3,500). The journalist, along with seven other persons, was charged with making a fake video […]
KARACHI: The APNS-CPNE Joint Action Committee which met under co-chairmanship of Shakil-ur-Rahman, President CPNE and Syed Faseih Iqbal, Senior Vice President APNS, expressed their concern over the ban of government advertisements to a section of the press. The Committee noted that the long drawn ban on the advertisements to the publications have disenchanted the member […]
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) sent a letter on March 25, to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, voicing alarm at last week’s shooting deaths of two television reporters in Baghdad. CPJ said the deaths were “especially troubling” as they occurred just days before the military presented a report on the death of […]
Date: March 27 – 29, 2004 Location: Jhelum Jhelum is an important industrial town, located on Lahore – Islamabad national highway. It is known as recruiting ground of Pakistan army servicemen. Jhelum is located on the historic route used by Muslim armies, from Central Asia and Afghanistan to invade India for establishing Muslim rule. Pakistan […]
KARACHI: Dina Wadia, daughter of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah visited on Friday the mausoleum of the Founder of Pakistan, laid a floral wreath and recorded her comments in the visitors’ book. Dina Wadia arrived here from Lahore on March 26, afternoon and reached the mausoleum directly from the airport along with her son Nusli Wadia […]
On March 26, Shahbaz Pathan, correspondent of “Daily Halchal” in Sukkur was released by kidnappers. According to news reports, he was released on pressure from police and influential persons. Police told that he was taken to a nearby rest house where kidnappers tied him and interrogated about his assets. Shahbaz Pathan is the younger brother […]
LAHORE: Human Rights Council of Pakistan has expressed no confidence in the ability of women in national and all four provincial assemblies, arguing that they had failed in securing justice, relief and protection for the fair sex. Speaking at a press conference held here on March 25, to highlight violation of women’s rights, council chief […]
KARACHI: Microsoft Pakistan is organising ‘Software Architect Tour (SAT-2004) in three major cities of the country to provide opportunity to local professionals to interact with wide range of software architects and engineers of the region. According to a spokesman of Microsoft on March 25, the SAT-2004 has been planned to organise in Karachi, Lahore, and […]
SUKKUR: The lives of a boy and a girl who eloped three days back and married of their own will are in danger as they have been declared Karo and a Kari by a meeting of the Abro community. The couple, Jamila and Insaf, went to the house of an influential person in the Roshan […]
KARACHI: A leading information technology company, KalSoft Private Limited, has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India’s Pune-based Indus Software for the development and marketing of software. With the signing of the MoU, the KalSoft became the first software company in the country to sign an agreement with a technology vendor in neighbouring India. […]
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