SWABI: A senior journalist was arrested when he was performing his professional duty here on Tuesday. Mohammad Iqbal, member of Abaseen Union of Journalists, when contacted said that Swabi Assistant Commissioner, Sohaib Butt accompanied by other officials and security personnel was talking with the traders in the district headquarters during his visit. He said that […]

LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday sent Jang group editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman to jail on judicial remand as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) did not seek his further custody in a 34-year-old case of 54-kanal land allegedly allotted to him by

ISLAMABAD: The family of Daniel Pearl – slain US journalist for The Wall Street Journal – has decided to approach the Supreme Court against the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) recent order for acquittal and release of Pearl’s alleged kidnappers and

BRUSSELS: Leading European newspapers, media organisations and broadcasters including the Voice of Germany have raised major questions in their articles about the 50-day-long illegal incarceration of Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, Editor-in-Chief of Jang-Geo Group. In their write-ups, they have raised serious questions about government

ISLAMABAD: In addition to international scholar and Institute Professor (emeritus) MIT, Laureate Professor University of Arizona Noam Chomsky, others noted names from the international academia have also joined voices for the release of Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. Nobel laureate and Professor

RAWALPINDI: The journalists along with the civil society, lawyers, traders and political workers continued their protest against the illegal arrest of Editor-in-Chief of Geo and Jang Group Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman on Sunday and demanded of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take

ISLAMABAD: The supreme head of Shia Ulema Board and the Millat-e-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi Sunday said that the stigma of vengeance on the government measures would have to be erased with regard to establishing the state

I was surprised and shaken when I read the news recently that a Pakistani court had overturned the conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man convicted of masterminding the abduction of my friend, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, in 2002. Saeed