Humair Hashmi The issue of gender-based violence has gained importance and currency in the last few decades. To say that it has become a focus of attention only in the recent past is not to say that such violence did not exist before. The entry of more and more women into the job market is […]
HYDERABAD, June 20: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court in a suo motu action on Wednesday ordered release of a minor boy and said that the boy was entitled to concession provided under section 83 of PPC. Justice Amir Hani Muslim passed the order after Ranoo was produced in court in pursuance […]
KARACHI, June 21: A book on Mukhtaran Mai was formally launched at Gallery Changez here on Thursday. Written by Bronwyn Curran, a former correspondent of the Agence France Presse (AFP), Into the Mirror — The full and untold story of Mukhtar Mai’s Case explores tribal society in rural Pakistan. At the book launch, Ms Curran […]
PESHAWAR: At least three journalists a month have fled their country to escape violence, imprisonment or harassment since 2001, said the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based press-freedom organisation, in a new report released on World Refugee Day (Tuesday, June 19). The CPJ has documented 243 cases of journalists being forced into exile […]
Karachi, June 20 (PPI): The Paris-based international organization of journalists Reporters Sans Frontiers (Reporters Without Borders) has called for the release of Abdul Latif Gola, the Urdu-language daily “Jang”‘s correspondent in Jafarabad, Balochistan, who was arrested on 17 June 2007 by police saying they were acting on the orders of an army officer identified as […]
ISLAMABAD, June 20: Former Minister for Information and founder of Citizens’ Media Commission of Pakistan (CMCP), Javed Jabbar Wednesday proposed conversion of Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to a commission to eliminate the impression of use of coercive power by an entity in the operation of the electronic media. Speaking at a roundtable on “Challenges […]
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