Tag: Person

Missing person belongs to banned outfit, DIG tells SC

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Friday that two missing people, Adnan and one other, were activists of a banned organisation Tehreek-e Islamia.
Appearing on notice in a case of two missing persons, Islamabad Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Binyamin contended before the court that Zahida Parveen, mother of Adnan, was also an important activist of the Tehreek-e-Islamia.
A three-member bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice

HEC’s resource person course concludes

LAHORE - The English Language Teaching Reforms (ELTR) Phase-II of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), in collaboration with the British Council, concluded a two-week international resource person course on research methodology at the HEC Lahore Regional Centre on Friday.
Tony Capstick, English language advisor of the British Council conducted the course as an international resource person. He designed a well-balanced scheme of studies for the course particularly keeping in

Mad Hatter Johnny Depp named ‘hat person of the year’

WASHINGTON - Johnny Depp has been crowned "hat person of the year," beating out other celebrity hat-wearers including US singer Gwen Stefani and Australian actor Hugh Jackman, the US Headwear Association said Tuesday.
Nearly four in 10 visitors to the Headwear Association's website voted in the annual poll for "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Depp and his wide-brimmed fedoras, helping him to roundly beat Stefani and Jackman who garnered 17 percent and 16 percent of votes cast,

‘Every seventh person in the world dies of cancer’

LAHORE - According to figures of the World Health Organisation (WHO), every seventh person in the world is dying of cancer across the globe every year, Surgical Oncology Society Pakistan President and King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Surgery Department Head Professor Arshad Cheema said on Monday.
Addressing a press conference on cancer awareness at the KEMU Research Centre, he said that cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world, particularly in developing

Davis not an ordinary person, say investigators

LAHORE - US national Raymond Davis, identified to be a technical expert working in the US Consulate in Lahore, does not seem to be an ordinary person, but a professional, investigation experts told Pakistan Today on Thursday.
A senior police investigator said Davis' encounter with the 'robbers' did not seem to be an ordinary incident or a mere coincidence, as it resulted in the death of three young Pakistanis within no time. He said though it would be difficult to establish

From the courtroom – Petition disposed of after ‘missing person’ produced...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday disposed of a petition regarding a missing person belonging to Karachi after recording the statement of the Special Investigation Unit investigation officer (IO).
A division bench comprising Justices Gulzar Ahmed and Imam Bux Baloch had directed the authorities on Monday to produce the missing person before the court.
Petitioner Anees Fatima had submitted in her petition that her son Pervez Ali was picked up by personnel of the