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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, A gunman on a motorbike shot dead a Pakistani journalist in the country’s restive northwest on Tuesday and hours later the Taliban claimed the killing, bringing to 71 the number of journalists and media workers killed in Pakistan since 2002. Zaman Mehsud, 38, was a journalist working for ...

by Ayesha Tanzeem  Members of the Shinwari tribe in the Nangarhar province of Eastern Afghanistan — many of whom are now displaced — opened their homes earlier this year to people they thought were in need. “At first they came as friends. They had their families and their belongings, and ...

Srinagar,Under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, J&K Bank Tuesday donated two vehicles to Chhotay Taray and CHINAR Kashmir, two non-governmental organizations working for the welfare of differently abled and orphans respectively belonging to the under-privileged sections of the society. The bank’s Chairman & CEO Mushtaq Ahmad handed over the ...

Rajouri, Urging policy planners to unlock the full potential of education as a driver for growth and jobs, Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Monday highlighted the need to revisit various academic programmes of the universities to tailor curricula for enhancing the possibilities of employment of pass-outs in the world of ...

NEW DELHI:  Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi led the party’s leaders and parliamentarians in a march to the President’s House Rashtrapati Bhavan this afternoon to flag what they call rising intolerance. The march, which saw Congress leaders walk up Raisina hill carrying placards decrying communalism, comes after ...

LAHORE – A report on safety of Pakistani media professionals presents a bleak picture of level of insecurity faced by Pakistani journalists and calls of serious efforts by governments and media to change the present situation where those that kill, injure, abduct and threaten journalists are almost never punished. The ...

Srinagar, Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the State, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has described him “not communal” at all and said PM does not rely on IB reports and gets feedback from RSS, ideologue of rightwing BJP. In an interview with Times of India, Mufti described ...

By Manzoor Ahmed A few days ago, reports cropped up from Jaisalmer in Rajasthan about 88 Hindus resident in Pakistan, who had come to India on pilgrim visas refusing to return home. Having come on a pilgrimage to India, these Pakistani nationals who had been staying in Rajasthan said they ...

Srinagar,  National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah on Monday said Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s confession that his Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) are signed by the RSS have validated the concern of NationalConference that PDP has effectively aided in shifting J&K’s power capital to Nagpur. In a statement issued from ...

Srinagar, Urging society to become progressive and change its perception towards girl child, Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Monday said nations cannot grow if they continue to discriminate between children on the basis of gender.He said girls require economic security, just as boys do, and access to quality education and ...