KARACHI- The City Nazim, Naimatullah Khan announced that the City Government would establish a City Radio Channel and launched a newspaper during the fiscal 2002-2003. He said that the City Radio would be used for promotion of education, dispensation of knowledge, character building besides propagation of Urdu and Arabic languages. He announced that City Council […]
HYDERABAD- The cable operators of Hyderabad city are observing a strike following closure of Indian TV channels under directives of police. In several parts of the city the police asked the cable operators to refrain from running Indian TV channels. These channels were closed some time back by the police but later on the cable […]
KARACHI- The Panel’ routed the Democratic Panel in the annual elections of Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ), all its candidates have been elected with a huge margin. According to the results announced by Election Committee Chairman Sajid Ali Sajid, Qamarullah Chaudhry of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) was elected KUJ President with 216 votes against […]
KARACHI- The graduates of the Information Technology (IT) and computer science are facing hardships in getting well-rewarding jobs even after spending Rs 0.1 million per year on tuition fees. “Our batch comprised of over 100 students which passed-out last year from the University of Karachi and after six months only 35 students are employed,” said […]
HYDERABAD- The defence counsel of the co-accused in the Daniel Pearl case recorded his objections here on Saturday before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge, Syed Ali Ashraf Shah, to putting irrelevant and wrong questions to his clients. Counsel Rai Basheer Ahmed said the questions were not in accordance with guidelines, laid down by the superior […]
Karachi- Despite government’s hectic efforts to promote Information Technology (IT), the sector is failed to gear up to its full capacity and only 323 Software houses (SWH) out of 664 are reported to be operational throughout the country. According to “Census of Software Industry and related services of Pakistan 2002” compiled by Federal Bureau of […]
HYDERABAD- Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main accused in the Daniel Pearl murder case, deposed before the Anti-terrorism Court judge, Syed Ali Ashraf Shah, here on Friday that all the allegations against him in the prosecution case were false. He told the court that his father, Ahmed Saeed Sheikh, and maternal uncle, Raoof Sheikh, who […]
HYDERABAD- The cross-examination of last prosecution witness, Hameedullah Memon, investigating officer (IO) of the case, was completed here on Thursday by defence counsel Rai Basheer Ahmed in the Daniel Pearl murder case. Ahmed claimed to have pointed out gross anomalies in the case of prosecution which closed its side. Briefing newsmen about Thursday’s proceedings, he […]
ISLAMABAD- The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), the supreme body of newspaper owners, filed a constitutional petition under Article 184(3) direct in the Supreme Court against the Seventh Wage Award for newspaper employees. The petition on behalf of owners of 24 newspapers and the APNS was filed by senior advocate of Supreme Court Abdul Hafeez […]
KARACHI- Sindh Government has announced fixation of reward money for the arrest of murderers/kidnappers/terrorists involved in the killing of Daniel Pearl, Bureau Chief of Wall Street Journal. According to announcement, the reward money for providing information to apprehend Amjad Hussain Farooqi would be Rs.20 hundred thousand, Hussain Rs. 10 hundred thousand; Ahmed alias Bhai Rs. […]
QUETTA- The Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) personnel deployed at Manan Chowk manhandled the bureau chief of Online, a news agency. Irfan Saeed, along with a relative, was on his way to the Quetta Press Club in his car when an ATF man near Manan Chowk signalled him to stop. Mr Saeed parked his car at roadside. […]
ISLAMABAD- The government has earmarked an amount of Rs14.2 million under the public sector development programme (PSDP) for the year 2002-03 for the national accreditation council for IT institutes. The council was recently approved by the government and would be established after cabinet’s final approval. The allocation also includes foreign component of Rs4 million and […]
HYDERABAD: The trial in the American journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case has entered final stages, as the cross-examination of the last prosecution witness, Investigation Officer (IO) Hameedullah Memon, continued on Tuesday. The hearing was later adjourned for Thursday morning. Defence counsel of the main accused Sheikh Umar, Abdul Waheed Katpar completed his side […]
ISLAMABAD- Minister for Science and Technology Dr Atta-ur-Rehman has said a new digital TV channel will be launched for promotion of literacy by end of this year. The project which would have capacity of four new channels has been approved, he said. The minister said: “We will not launch all the channels simultaneously, one will […]
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