SHIKARPUR: Slow pace of issuance of Watan cards and lack of facilities and mismanagement at NADRA centres for registration of flood victims led to rumpus in Shikarpur and Thatta on Saturday. Thirty flood victims and three policemen were injured in a clash outside the Public School in Shikarpur during distribution of Watan cards. Police restored […]
By: Asma Ghani ISLAMABAD – Due to the nasty politicking between the high ups of the Ministry of Information Technology the future of hundreds of students is at stake studying on the Ministry’s scholarships and dozens of research projects are at standstill. Just because the Board of Directors of the Information and Communication Technologies Research […]
KARACHI: Every murder in the city is described as a target killing by the media because of a lack of accurate information, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday. This is not the first time he has chastised journalists on this account. Malik met the IGP Sindh, DG Rangers Sindh, CCPO Karachi and DG FIA […]
Timergara: The Inter News, an international NGO, working for uplift of media organisations, on Saturday announced to demolish and reconstruct two rooms of the Timergara press club, which had been badly damaged by flash floods on July 29, this year. The announcement was made during a concluding ceremony of a three-day training workshop arranged by […]
Karachi: At this moment Pakistan is facing one of the worst crises of its history. Floods have devastated the country — however aid agencies / foreign governments and even ordinary citizens are not willing to give money through government channels because of the lack of transparency and poor governance. An extremely effective tool for transparency […]
GOOD governance best flourishes in a corruption-free situation. Unfortunately, Pakistan is way down the last rung of the ladder on this account. Corruption of all magnitudes— be it petty, moderate or mega-permeates all tiers of governance and all segments of society: public, private, political, judicial, commercial and even religious. Paradoxically corruption acts as the balancing […]
ISLAMABAD: General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has handed a list of corrupt or allegedly incompetent ministers to President Asif Ali Zardari, demanding their removal, a British newspaper has reported. Quoting Western and Pakistani officials, The Guardian reported that the tension between Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders is the latest political fallout from historic floods that have […]
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