Rasheed Ahmed

Pakistan: Partial ban on foreign TV content sought

A Pakistani parliamentary panel has sought a ban on airing foreign content in any language during prime time and taking strict action against violators. The National Assembly's standing committee on information and broadcasting made the recommendation following a discussion on the new trend of airing foreign soaps dubbed in Urdu by local channels and their negative effect on the local culture and the Pakistani youth. ...  

Bhutto murder accused shines in school exam

Islamabad: One of the accused in the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto has come out with flying colours in secondary school certificate examination, securing third position while writing the exam from a Rawalpindi jail. Abdul Rasheed Ahmed alias Abdul Rahim Tarbi, one of the five accused in the case, secured 848 marks out of a total of 1,050 in the test conducted by the Board of Intermediate...