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July 22, 2011

Bill to protect journalists tabled in Senate

MULTAN – Strongly condemning increasing violence against journalists, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Secretary General Liaqat Baloch has demanded the government to immediately pass a Journalist Welfare and Protection Bill in the parliament.

Rs900 million for Thar coal power project

By Amin Ahmed ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said on Thursday that Rs900 million had been approved for the Thar coal gasification project to generate 100MW of electricity. He

Violence against women on the rise in Punjab

LAHORE: Some 3,035 cases of violence against women were recorded in the first six months of 2011 in Punjab, says a report. Ex-MNA Mehnaz Rafi, MPA Sajida Mir, Legal Advisor

NC registered against female in-laws of woman

UMERKOT: Police on Thursday registered an NC against female in-laws of a woman for torturing and abandoning her in injured condition. The victim was hospitalized after narrating her ordeal at

Four booked for kidnapping

DADU: Forced marriage of a divorced woman brought to book her two brothers, the bridegroom and his uncle on Thursday in a case of kidnapping. Unfortunately, the woman ended her

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