The son and daughter-in-law of PML-F activist Saira Naseer confessed to murdering her in a deposition recorded on Friday by a judicial magistrate in Hyderabad...
Naseer's son Fahad Ali and his wife Sadaf Sarhandi were produced before Judicial Magistrate-VIII by Husri police to record their confessional statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedures Code (CrPC)...
The son of late Saira Naseer, a provincial women's wing leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), on Thursday, along with his wife, confessed to killing his mother on the pretext of 'honour'...
Earlier this month, police had found Naseer's charred remains in her burnt car...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has banned popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the country for not “blocking/removing sacrilegious content” within the 48-hour deadline given to the website, a spokesperson confirmed on Saturday...
Wikipedia is the free, editable online encyclopedia often used as a starting point by millions across the world for basic information...
TOBA TEK SINGH: Zainab Bibi, Pakistan’s tallest woman and a former holder of the ‘world’s tallest woman’ title in Guinness Book of World Record in 2003, has been suffering from diabetes and osteoporosis diseases...
In 1998, she became a known figure when she appeared in PTV’s Neelam Ghar programme and in 2003 she was declared world’s tallest woman by Guinness Book of World Record...
SUKKUR: Sukkur police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in the Nov 29, 2014 assassination of the then Sindh secretary general of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl Dr Khalid Mahmood Soomro...
Dr Soomro was gunned down while he was saying Fajr prayers in a mosque next to his seminary in the SITE area of Sukkur on Nov 29, 2014...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media - and tackling the scourge of misinformation - using the same collaborative principles as the revolutionary online encyclopedia...
Wikitribune will rely on a broad online community of journalists and readers as fact checkers, a crowdsourcing model pioneered in the “wiki” system behind Wikipedia...
Turkey has blocked online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, the telecommunications watchdog (BTK) said on Saturday, citing a law allowing it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security...
an administrative measure has been taken for this website (Wikipedia...
Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) said it had implemented the ban against Wikipedia...
Turkish state media said the ban was imposed because Wikipedia had failed to remove content promoting terror and accusing Turkey of cooperation with various terror groups...
LARKANA: Sindh Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) secretary general Maulana Rashid Mehmood Soomro has said he will disclose the names of facilitators, abettors and handlers of the assassins of his father and predecessor Dr Khalid Memdood Soomro at the Nov 29 Shaheed-i-Islam conference convened by the party at the Larkana municipal stadium...
Speaking at a press conference at Madressah Isha’atul Quran wal Hadees here on Thursday,...
SAN FRANCISCO: Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarising knowledge about terror groups and their tools plunged nearly 30 per cent after revelations of widespread web monitoring by the US National Security Agency (NSA), suggesting that concerns about government snooping are hurting the ordinary pursuit of information...
Author Jonathon Penney, a fellow at the University of Toronto’s interdisciplinary Citizen Lab, examined monthly...
KARACHI/LARKANA: Province-wide protest demonstrations and sit-ins of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) came to an end on Saturday evening after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah promised to send the murder case of the slain leader Khalid Mehmood Soomro to a military court for trial...
A large number of JUI-F workers took to the streets across Sindh cities and towns demanding trial by a military court of those arrested for...
Speaking at a press conference at Qatar Masjid here on Sunday, Sindh JUI-F general secretary Maulana Rashid Mehmood Soomro and Dr Mirza said that the party and Dr Mirza’s close associates would hold a series of joint meetings in all cities and towns of the province to evolve a strategy to launch a vigorous campaign against corrupt elements, including those sitting in the Sindh government and bureaucracy...
Maulana Soomro claimed that...
PPP leader and member national assembly Ayaz Soomro passed away in the early hours on Tuesday in the United States after protracted illness, fellow party member Agha Siraj Durrani confirmed...
Soomro was facing cardiac problems and was being treated at a hospital in the United States...
The protection level of the Wikipedia page of Maryam Nawaz Sharif, who was sentenced to seven-year imprisonment by an accountability court on Friday in the Avenfield properties reference, was changed to semi-protected on Saturday following repeated attempts to vandalise the page...
Wikipedia then moved to change the status of her page to semi-protected because of violations of its 'biographies of living persons policy'...
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party’s candidate for PS-11 Jamil Soomro who lost by-election to Grand Democratic Alliance’s Moazzam Abbasi has accused Election Commission of Pakistan of having failed to hold free and fair election and announced he will challenge the result in election tribunal and Supreme Court with plenty of proofs...
He said JUI-F’s Maulana Nasir Mehmood Soomro along with his partymen was allowed to go inside a polling...