LAHORE- A three-member team of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the city for the last two days to follow up the kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl, it is reliably learnt. Sources in the law enforcement agencies said that the team members arrived in Lahore by a PIA flight a couple […]
MULTAN- Some of the ‘most wanted sectarian terrorists’ of a banned militant outfit escaped a couple of days ahead of police raids on their hideouts in Vehari on Friday last, sources said. The Vehari police conducted three raids on different places simultaneously. It forced entry into a cyber cafe – Al-Ilm academy and internet club […]
KARACHI- Despite the fact that information technology and the internet are being used throughout the world by terrorists and criminals, the Sindh police have so far failed to reactivate its ‘Cyber Crime Unit’ (CCU) which earlier worked in the crimes branch under the Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Crimes. Police sources disclosed that the CCU police […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has failed to keep tabs on those cable operators who have been showing those Indian channels and movies on which the government put a ban late last year. Well-placed sources said that while the telecoms regulator had taken punitive action against some cable operators for showing the outlawed Indian […]
The Chairman of Citizen-Police Liaison Committees of Karachi, Jameel Yousaf, has said he hopes that American journalist Daniel Pearl is still alive. In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, Jameel Yousaf said persons who masterminded the abduction of the Wall Street Journal reporter and sent e-mails have been arrested, hoping that the police will […]
The Chairman of Citizen-Police Liaison Committees of Karachi, Jameel Yousaf, has said he hopes that American journalist Daniel Pearl is still alive. In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, Jameel Yousaf said persons who masterminded the abduction of the Wall Street Journal reporter and sent e-mails have been arrested, hoping that the police will […]
LAHORE- Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) expressed its serious concern over some amendments in the Antiterrorist Act and observed that the present or any future government could misuse these Press related clauses against the newspapers. The CPNE which met under the chairmanship of its President Mr. Mujib-ur-Rehman Shami was of the view that this […]
PARIS- The newspaper the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday in a statement received in Paris that it was confident that its reporter Daniel Pearl was still alive. “We continue to remain confident that Danny is still alive,” the brief statement said. Photos of Pearl in chains and with a gun held to his head […]
TOBA TEK SINGH- The Punjab police picked up 34 people from Toba Tek Singh and Vehari on Friday night and Saturday in a bid to trace Amjad Hussain Farooqui, whom Sheikh Omar, prime suspect in the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl, described as ‘go-between.’ A resident of Toba Tek Singh district, Farooqui had reportedly taken away […]
KARACHI- There is no progress in the US reporter’s kidnapping case as the investigation process has come to a standstill, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) (operations) Tariq Jamil told Dawn on Saturday. Earlier, the DIG told reporters at a hotel that interrogation of Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh was continuing. He said Omar Shaikh was giving information […]
KARACHI- As the mystery over the fate of kidnapped US reporter Daniel Pearl deepens, attention in Pakistan is beginning to focus on a crucial phone call made by the man suspected of masterminding the abduction. British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh calmly confessed in a Karachi court this week to masterminding the kidnapping of the Wall […]
MUZAFFARABAD- The employees of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) have expressed dismay over the non-implementation of the new pay scales in the corporation and urged the federal government to do the needful at the earliest. It is ironical that the new pay scales, affected more than two months ago in all government and semi-government organizations […]
LAHORE- The Joint Action Committee (JAC) for protecting rights of newspaper employees has announced to hold protests during the meeting of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) and Council for Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE), which would be held in the city. The committee in its emergency meeting, announced that the newspaper employees would hold a silent […]
NEW YORK- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) remains hopeful that the abducted Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, is alive despite the statement by a key suspect in the abduction that he thinks the reporter has been killed. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man investigators say is responsible for Pearl’s kidnapping, told an anti-terrorism […]
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