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Daily Archives: June 17, 2011

Khyber market blasts: Wounded journalist succumbs to injuries

PESHAWAR: A journalist who was injured in the twin explosions in Peshawar’s Khyber Supermarket succumbed to his injuries on Friday. Shafiullah was visiting the area when two powerful blasts ripped through the marketplace in Peshawar just before midnight on June 11. He received third degree burns and succumbed to his injuries today. At least 34 […]


Women’s Protection Bill passed by the National Assembly

ISLAMABAD: The draft of the Women’s Protection Bill passed by the National Assembly was not referred to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), said its Chairman Dr Khalid Masud, while addressing a press conference here on Thursday.The CII chief, however, said it was the government’s discretion to refer a draft of any bill to the […]


Protest by journalists

A dahrna in front of the parliament building by journalists to demand a probe into slain journalist Saleem Shahzad’s murder was a good show of unity. It resulted in an announcement by the government of formation of a judicial commission to look into the matter. The way journalists are raising their voice against the highhandedness […]


Khyber market blasts: Wounded journalist succumbs to injuries

PESHAWAR: A journalist who was injured in the twin explosions in Peshawar’s Khyber Supermarket succumbed to his injuries on Friday. Shafiullah was visiting the area when two powerful blasts ripped through the marketplace in Peshawar just before midnight on June 11. He received third degree burns and succumbed to his injuries today. At least 34 […]


Journalists under threat

Pakistan is today in the front row of countries where journalists lose their lives or are thrashed mercilessly. The ‘dharna’ by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in Islamabad demanding adequate inquiry into the killing of journalist Saleem Shahzad has finally forced the government to take the promised inquiry commission to the level of […]


The fibbing intellectuals

Syed Kamran Hashmi Their contribution is laudable and noteworthy but, sometimes, they are indiscreet in their writings and disingenuous in their speech, which results in factual errors and conveys inaccurate information. The tour de force of private news channels in Pakistan has introduced a new assembly of ambitious, talented and inspiring intellectuals on the national […]


‘Sacred cows’ and ‘troublesome’ journalists

Sabir Shah LAHORE: While assassinating ‘troublesome’ journalists and then comfortably getting away with the crime has become a common practice for ‘sacred cows’ in countries like Pakistan, one earnestly hopes men at the helm of affairs in Islamabad can learn some lessons from the Central Asian Republic of Ukraine, where a former president was recently […]


Girl killed in name of honour

SUKKUR: A man strangulated his 18-year-old cousin to death in the Majid Dahani village near Kandhkot on Thursday over suspicions she had a love affair with `someone` in the area. The accused Ali Hassan Malik fled after killing Ms Bani Khatoon, daughter of Mohammad Hassan Malik, but later surrendered to police. A report has been […]


Women body to probe Haripur incident

PESHAWAR: Provincial Commission on the Status of Women has decided to hold its own independent inquiry into the alleged naked parade of a woman on the orders of a jirga in Haripur district on June 7. In this regard, Zubaida Khatoon, chairperson of the commission, convened a meeting of the Committee on Gender-Based Violence on […]


Women issues between centre and provinces: NA committee seeks formation of coordination panel

By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly`s Standing Committee on Women Development on Thursday recommended formation of a committee to coordinate between provinces and the centre on issues related to women development and their rights after the devolution of the ministry under the 18th Amendment by the end of this month. The committee, which met […]


Plight of Pakistani women

Pakistan is ranked third on the basis of “cultural, tribal and religious practices harmful to women”- Thomson Reuters Foundation survey. A recently published global survey that lists Pakistan as the third-worst country in the world for women should awaken us to the reality that we are systematically neglecting the rights of about half of this […]


HRCP concerned at Karachi killings

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Thursday expressed its concern at the loss of lives in the latest upsurge in violence in Karachi, criticised the government for its failure to ensure security for life and called for measures reflecting the urgency the situation demanded. A statement issued by the Commission said: “Another […]


Poet Hassan Dars dies in accident

HYDERABAD: A promising Sindhi poet Hassan Dars died after suffering serious wounds in an accident in the wee hours of Thursday. As he lay in his car bleeding to death, Qasimabad and GOR police were busy bickering over jurisdiction which delayed his being taken to a hospital. He was 43. He was later brought to […]


Saleem Shahzad’s murder: Government forms commission headed by SC judge

* Justice Saqib Nisar to head commission * Will fix responsibility for killing and suggest ways to avert such incidents in future By Raja Riaz ISLAMABAD: The federal government at last bowed to the journalists’ pressure who were on a sit-in at the Parliament House and agreed to set up a judicial commission headed by […]