July 19, 2007

CPJ selects Mazhar for Press Freedom Award

KARACHI (July 19 2007): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has selected Secretary General of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Mazhar Abbas, for the ‘International Press Freedom Award’. A

Socialist Qamar Yorash dies

LAHORE, July 18: Prominent progressive writer Qamar Yorash died here on Wednesday afternoon. He was 75 and single. Yorash breathed his last during asleep in a room of the Labour

Veteran photojournalist passes away

KARACHI: Senior photojournalist Samuel Benjamin was buried Wednesday. He was 61.He leaves behind two brothers and two sisters. Born in 1946 in Saddar Karachi, he became a photographer in 1965.

A deplorable case of abuse

THE arrest of a cleric in Mandi Bahauddin on Monday may not bring much joy to the parents of Mazhar Iqbal, the young boy he is charged with torturing, sexually

Two men fall prey to revenge killing

LARKANA, July 18: Two people were killed and a woman suffered injuries in separate incidents in the jurisdictions of Bakrani and Wagan police stations on Wednesday. Akbar Ali Abro, 20,

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