LAHORE:-Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Chaudhry Zaka Ashraf, Chief Operating Officer Subhan Ahmad, Director General Javed Miandad and the entire cricket board family on Monday offered their heartfelt condolences over the sad demise of veteran noted journalist Abbas Athar. "Abbas Athar was a ...

Renowned journalist and columnist Syed Abbas Athar passed away after protracted illness here in the wee hours of Monday.It should be mentioned that veteran journalist, Syed Abbas Athar was suffering from cancer ailment since a long time and hospitalized in Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Lahore ...

Journalist Penal made clean sweep, winning all the 13 seats in the Lahore Press Club elections held on Sunday. Arshad Ansari was elected president and Shahbaz Mian general secretary. As many as 1,476 media people exercised their right to vote. It was the highest number of votes cast in the history ...

LAHORE – Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi has expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the death of daughter of Amjad Shah, senior worker of Daily Khabrain. In a condolence message, Sethi prayed that Allah Almighty rest the departed soul in eternal peace and grant courage and ...

MAILSI - A condolence to pay tribute to senior journalist Ikramul Haq Rabbani was held at Mailsi Press Club here the other day. Rabbani had died of kidney failure a couple weeks ago.Press Club members including Aslam Khan Yousafzai, Sanaullah Qureshi, Hamayun Akhtar, Yousaf Chohan, Naveedul Hassan ...

MAILSI - A condolence to pay tribute to senior journalist Ikramul Haq Rabbani was held at Mailsi Press Club here the other day. Rabbani had died of kidney failure a couple weeks ago.Press Club members including Aslam Khan Yousafzai, Sanaullah Qureshi, Hamayun Akhtar, Yousaf Chohan, Naveedul Hassan ...

MINSK  - A Belarussian writer and journalist with links to the country’s opposition has been found dead after apparently falling from the ninth floor of a building, the Belarussian Association of Journalists. Yuri Goumeniouk’s body was found in Grodno, in the western part of the ...

ISLAMABAD  - In the elections of National Press Club, 2013, contested by Journalist Panel and Jago Panel, the former has secured a win for a seventh consecutive time by making a clean sweep. The elections were held in the headship of Chairman Election Commission Nasir Zahidi. Out of 2220 ...

VIENNA (AFP) - More journalists have been killed this year while on assignment than at any time in the last 15 years, according to the International Press Institute, a Vienna-based media watchdog.A total 119 journalists have died so far, IPI’s Death Watch survey found, exceeding the number of ...

SHERGARH – A special meeting of the City Press Club of Shergarh was held here to condemn the target killing of a correspondent of a private TV channel in Bangor, Balochistan.The meeting was presided over by CPC President Dr Ziaul Hassan. It strongly condemned the killing of Rehmatullah Abid ...

QUETTA - Another journalist was shot dead on Sunday in Panjgur district of Balochistan, some 650 kilometres from Quetta.Panjgur police officer Jahangir Baloch said that journalist Rehmatullah Abid was sitting in a barber’s shop for a haircut in Washbood area of Punjgur when unidentified armed ...

LAHORE – Noted journalist, writer and dramatist Asghar Butt passed away on Tuesday at his home in Lahore after a brief illness. He was 91.He is survived by his widow Nisar Aziz Butt and two sons, Dr Ahmar Aziz Butt and Ashar Aziz Butt. He was brother-in-law of Editor-in-Chief The Nation Majid ...

The semi-final between Pakistan and India of the Cricket World Cup 2011 was fixed, according to a claim made by British Journalist Ed Hawkins in his new book.According to Hawkins, the bookie had a contract with Pakistan which stipulated that the team would lose the match by a margin of over 20 ...

QUETTA - The son of Khuzdar Press Club President Nadeem Gurgnari, who was shot along with his brother, succumbed to injuries in Khuzdar on Friday.Unidentified armed men opened fire on two sons of Nadeem Gurgnari in Eid Gah area of Khuzdar on Thursday night when the brothers were heading towards ...

KARACHI – Eight people including two cops and a journalist of a local newspaper were gunned down while three others were wounded in various parts of the metropolis here on Tuesday.Unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate gunshots on a police head constable Sajid, 40, son of Allah Bux at ...

LAHORE – Some unidentified armed men thrashed a journalist at Waris Road Chowk in the Civil Lines police area in the wee hours on Saturday. As per details, a senior media practitioner Mian Rauf was tortured allegedly by Jam Aman and Ali Fateh, who also opened fire on his car. He said they ...

QUETTA – Unidentified gunmen shot dead General Secretary of Khuzdar Press Club here on Saturday night.Abdul Haq Zehri, General Secretary Khuzdar Press Club, was on his way to home after discharging his professional duties when unidentified masked armed men opened indiscriminate fire on him, ...

LAHORE - PML-N Senator Pervaiz Rashid and Information & Culture Secretary Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani have expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the death of senior journalist Hamid Javed, who passed away. In their condolence messages, they prayed that may Almighty Allah rest the departed soul ...

SWAT - A journalist was found mysteriously dead in a local hotel in Mingora, Swat the other day. The hotel management said Shah Hussain, son of Muzammil, hailing from Jahanzeb Kowatar Dargai rented a room in Pamir Hotel situated in Mingora on Friday. He entered his room after checking at 7:00 pm ...

LAHORE – The CIA police have succeeded in solving the mystery shrouding two old murders. One of the victims in these murders was the famous Baba Fazal Karim, a DSP told TheNation on Wednesday. In the first successful probe, the CIA arrested Muhammad Ali, son of Allah Ditta, of Bhaikey Waal, ...

Hameed Nizami was born in Sangla Hill (Sheikhupura) in 1915. He left his hometown in 1932 to study at Islamia College, Lahore. After graduation he moved to Forman Christian College, Lahore, for his MA in English. While in Islamia College he edited the college magazine named as Crescent with the ...

NEW YORK - The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent watchdog , has condemned the killing of Mukarram Khan Aatif, a correspondent for Deewa Radio, a Pashto-language channel of Voice of America.  Aatif was gunned down while praying in a Shabqadar mosque.  "We mourn the death of ...

WASHINGTON - In an 'unusual decision, the US has granted political asylum to a Pakistani journalist from Balochistan despite Pakistan being a democracy with a vibrant news media, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Siraj Ahmed Malik, who is on a fellowship at the University of Arizona, applied ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Syed Saleem Shazad, Bureau Chief of Asia Times, has been missing since Sunday evening. Saleem left his house at Nazimuddin Road F-8/4 to participate in a programme of a private TV channel but neither he neither reached the private TV channel nor returned home. He has also not ...

Safdar Ali Qureshi, who passed away in Islamabad on Thursday, was an outstanding journalist, an effective union leader, a gifted speaker and an able administrator-all rolled into one. A professional to the core, he was one of the stars of Associated Press of Pakistans team of highly competent and ...

ISLAMABAD - Veteran journalist and scholar Mir Jameel-ur-Rehman died here on Sunday after a protracted illness. The funeral prayers of the deceased will be offered at H-8 Graveyard today (Monday) at 3.30pm while the Qul will be offered on Tuesday at his residence in G-8/4. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf ...

ISLAMABAD (PPI) The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned torture of Mr Abdul Rehman Afridi, a senior journalist, and demanded immediate arrest of culprits involved in physical assaulting and injuries to the editor. In a statement issued here on Saturday, the PFUJ ...

LAHORE FIFA Disciplinary Committee imposed a fine of 3,000 Swiss francs (2,300 euros) to the Algerian striker Rafik Saifi for slapping a woman journalist at the end of Algeria-USA clash during the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) President Makhdoom Syed Faisal ...

LOME (AFP) Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor has taken legal action against a Togolese sports journalist on grounds of alleged defamation, AFP learnt from a legal source on Tuesday. Lawyers for Adebayor issued a writ against Prosper Komi Agboklou, otherwise known as 'Prosper the German, ...

CAPE TOWN (AFP) A British journalist accused of harbouring a World Cup fan who entered the England teams locker-room paid a fine for fiddling a hotel register, a court heard Saturday. British tabloid newspaper journalist Simon Wright paid a nearly 100 dollar fine after pleading guilty to giving a ...