KARACHI- Sindh Governor Muhammedmian Soomro has assured that all possible steps are being —taken for safe recovery of American journalist, Daniel Pearl. He held out the assurance to Mrs. Daniel who met him at the Governor House on Friday. The wife of the Governor, Begum Khadija Soomro, Home Secretary, Brig Mukhtar Ahmed (Retd), IG Police, […]
KARACHI- The US Embassy and consulates in Pakistan have asked the US journalists to leave Pakistan. The US embassy and consulates called on Thursday the US journalists working in Pakistan. These journalists were issued strict instructions not to leave their hotel premises until necessary and do not hire cabs. These journalists were told of reports […]
KARACHI- Kidnappers holding missing US journalist Daniel Pearl Friday demanded two million dollars within 36 hours for his safe release, a police officer said. The anonymous call late Friday to the US consulate in Karachi, also demanded the release of the former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior police official told the […]
HYDERABAD- Activists of the Pak-American Human Rights Wing of International Peace Friends Society Pakistan held a protest demonstration outside the press club on Friday against the kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Talking to newsmen, the president of the organization, Saeed Nizami said that the American journalist had been kidnapped by Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Indian […]
KARACHI/MULTAN- The city police began on Friday night a search for US journalist Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal following a tip-off that he had been killed. According to sources, the police started late night search in city graveyards after an electronic message was sent to the US television network, Fox News, that Pearl […]
WASHINGTON- President George Bush joined media personalities and other governmental leaders in expressing concern over the abduction of Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl, who went missing in Karachi eight days ago and is being held somewhere by a group that has threatened to kill him. Talking to reporters at the Oval Office, Mr Bush […]
ISLAMABAD- Police said on Friday they were no closer to finding kidnapped US reporter Daniel Pearl whose captors have threatened to kill him unless the United States releases Pakistani prisoners from the Afghan war. The group claiming to have kidnapped Pearl has given the Unites States 24 hours to meet the demands or Pearl would […]
KARACHI- Kidnappers holding missing US journalist Daniel Pearl Friday demanded two million dollars within 36 hours for his safe release, a police officer said. The anonymous call late Friday to the US consulate in Karachi, also demanded the release of the former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior police official told the […]
KARACHI- A suspect wanted in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping case has died. When a police party reached his residence in Ahmedpur Sharqia to investigate, fateha was being offered for the suspect Arif, said Sindh police chief Syed Kamal Shah, here on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference at the Central Police Office, the Inspector General […]
ISLAMABAD- Director-General ISPR Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi said here on Thursday that investigations conducted so far in the mysterious disappearance of American journalist Daniel Pearl strongly indicated “Indian linkage” to the episode. Gen Qureshi, who was speaking at the daily press briefing at the Foreign Office along with its spokesman Aziz A. Khan, was responding to […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved an ordinance allowing establishment of TV channels in private sector. The cabinet meeting, which was presided over by President Pervez Musharraf, approved the draft of PEMRA Ordinance 2002, allowing the setting up of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority. The PEMRA will have a chairman and nine […]
ISLAMABAD- Federal Information Secretary and Chairman, Pakistan Broadcasting and Television corporations, Syed Anwar Mahmood said the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) will soon be launching a new radio station at Gwadar for the benefit of the people of the coastal area and another one at Umerkot. The PBC has undertaken this project out of its own […]
KARACHI- The IT experts of Karachi Institute of Information Technology (KIIT) have developed a basic computer software, Urdu Text Editor. According to the institute, the software will soon be launched in the market for general use. The source code would also be freely made available for researchers and developers on the KIIT website. The software, […]
KANDAHAR- Pakistani journalists were banned to attend the daily briefings of US Marines at ‘Kandahar airport’ after being declared as security risk. Major Chris Hughes conveyed the decision, which was attributed to higher US authorities, to Pakistani newsmen at the main airport gate the other day. The journalists have been denied permission on one pretext […]
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