ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday decided to make changes in different clauses of a landmark pro-woman draft bill – Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill, 2009 – after right-wing parliamentarians resisted its passage from the joint-sitting of the parliament. Maulana Fazlur Rehman chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), who had openly threatened of dire consequences […]
By Gulmina Bilal For many it was the “Good Friday.” For others it was another day of struggle. More than 600 women gathered outside the National Assembly for a protest. These women did not belong to a particular group, organisation or community, but were representing a true mix of Pakistani women. There were veiled women, […]
Anil Datta Karachi: Nostalgia is an inseparable ingredient of human nature and no matter how matter-of-fact or pragmatic we may profess to be, the element of viewing the past in a sentimental way is something that lies in the heart of apparently the most realistic among us. Memories, which are so beautiful, tend to cling […]
ISLAMABAD: Canadian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Ross Hynes, on Friday visited the Union Council of Hattian Dopatta to break ground for the construction of a degree college for girls and a high school for boys. This college and high school are part of a $ 20-million Canadian programme to reconstruct up to 42 schools destroyed […]
Karachi, Journalists working in conflict areas face enormous challenges and threats and there is a dire need to change the mindsets of policymakers in media organizations to ensure safety and security of journalists. This was said by participants of a roundtable discussion on Reporting Conflict held at Hotel Avari Towers in Karachi on April 6, […]
HUNDREDS or maybe thousands of laptops are being distributed among students of various colleges for doing well in their studies. I am not sure about the criteria. Why is the laptop distribution restricted to only some students? Why not plan and build libraries equipped with books as well as computers with Internet facilities? These will […]
A.G Noorani IT is a fundamental principle of criminal law that a person is presumed to be innocent until his guilt is proved in a court of law beyond reasonable doubt. The benefit of any doubt goes to the accused. This principle is flagrantly violated when the police boast before the media of their ‘success’ […]
ISLAMABAD: Five men were arrested by Shahzad Town police on Friday for their alleged involvement in the gang-rape of two schoolgirls on Wednesday. The accused were nominated by the victims, a senior police officer said, adding that preliminary investigation suggested that the victims were not abducted at gunpoint as one of the accused claimed that […]
QUETTA: Police produced four of the seven missing persons before the Supreme Court registry here on Friday and Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry ordered that the remaining three be brought on Monday. Maj-Gen Obaidullah Khattak, the Inspector General of Frontier Corps Balochistan, appeared before a three-judge bench hearing a petition on the law and order […]
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