STOCKHOLM- More than 3,000 Pakistanis want to become citizens in the northern European nation of Ladonia, the country’s state secretary said. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist. Ladonia is a piece of land in southern Sweden only one square kilometre (half-mile) in size, and as a nation exists mainly on the Internet (http://www.aim.se/ladonia) and in the mind […]
KARACHI- Justice Shabbir Ahmad of Sindh High Court (SHC), in his capacity as the Administrator Judge of ATCs, allowed Khwaja Naveed Ahmad advocate to meet his clients Fahad Nasim and Syed Salman Saqib inside jail. The accused, who are involved in the abduction and subsequent murder of Wall Street Journal’s reporter Daniel Pearl, are in […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan has asked the US to allow a senior FBI agent to appear before the court in Karachi as a witness in the case of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, sources said. A formal request by Pakistan’s Foreign Office to the US State Department was made last week seeking the appearance of […]
KARACHI- The first in the series of lecture meetings to honour the senior most editors on job in Pakistan, hosted by the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), will be held in Karachi. The speaker will be M. A. Zuberi, Editor of the Business Recorder. Zuberi will speak on the subject: “My years in journalism […]
LAHORE- Internet facility will reach up to 900 small towns and villages by the end of June, 2002, Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) Chairman Mian M. Humayun said. He said, at present, 576 cities, villages and towns had been provided internet facility with the aim to promote information technology in the country. He explained just […]
ISLAMABAD- Indian Information Minister Sushma Swaraj has expressed her extreme disappointment over the banning of Indian channels in Pakistan refuting at the same time the charge that her government had earlier banned PTV transmission throughout India. In an interview she said Pakistan Television (PTV) transmissions were available to Indian viewers through cable operators throughout the […]
KARACHI- A prosecution witness in Daniel Pearl case recorded his statement before the court by stating that American journalist had met Omar Sheikh on January, 23 at Village Restaurant, the very day when the reporter of Wall Street Journal disappeared, according to the police. Police produced Omar Sheikh, the main suspect in Daniel Pearl case […]
THATTA- Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Sindh President Nisar Khuhro, strongly condemning the ban on newspapers Kainat and Janbaz. He was talking to newsmen at a ceremony of Dastarbandi of Sardar Abdul Karim Soomro in village Muhammad Khan Soomro. Members of Press Club Thatta also condemned the ban in a meeting held in the evening. Members […]
ISLAMABAD- The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has opposed the banning of two newspapers of Karachi by the Sindh Government. Mujib-ur-Rahman Shami, President of the Council and Zahid Malik, Secretary General, CPNE, in a statement urged the Minister for Information, Nisar Memon to personally look into this step taken by the provincial government against […]
ATTOCK- The administration of the Attock Fort has banned the entry of newsmen in the accountability court housed in a barrack of the centuries-old Mughal fort nestled on a mound along the Indus River, some 70km southeast of Peshawar. An agent of an intelligence agency conveyed a message of his superior officer that the newsmen […]
KARACHI- An anti-terrorism court issued summons for appearance of reporters of five newspapers in the killing case of two workers of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan. Judge Abdul Ghafoor Memon of ATC-2 called the reporters of the Evening Special (Karachi), Ummat, Daily Public (Karachi), Awam and Janbaz on an application filed by the defence counsel for […]
ISLAMABAD- The information ministers attending the Second Ministerial Meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Conference (SAARC) countries underlined the need to use the media as a vehicle for social change. On the second day, the Information Ministers of the seven-member states presented their country papers. Federal Information and Media Development Minister, Nisar A […]
ISLAMABAD- The US government has sought Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh’s extradition for the killing of an American, who, along with some other Western tourists, was abducted in occupied Kashmir some years back, and not in the Daniel Pearl kidnap and murder case. The British-born Omar is the alleged prime character in the Pearl case and […]
MIRPURKHAS- The journalists of Mirpurkhas have strongly condemned the ban on daily Kainat and Janbaz, two Karachi-based newspapers. The newsmen took out a protest rally against the Sindh government’s action against the dailies and termed it strangulation of the truth. Newsmen wore black bands and hoisted black flags at the press club building. Earlier addressing […]
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