The police have not yet been able to identify the identity of the victim. KARACHI: A crowd gathered and looked at the suspicious plastic bag that was lying in a garbage dump beside a school on Jahangir Road on Monday. Someone called the police. Everyone was scared to open and see what was inside. The […]
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday night stressed upon the journalist community to forge unity among their ranks and work as a pressure group for holding accountability of political leaders and institutions for assessing their efficiency across the country. The uppermost duty of journalist community was to highlighting the […]
KARACHI: Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Media Sharmila Farooqui has said that present democratic government believed in freedom of media and expression. “In struggle for democracy, media has supported us and now it is properly highlighting the success of government.” She was addressing a dinner hosted in honour of newly elected office-bearers of APNS, […]
By Muhammad Aayan Ali LAHORE: The world is filled with gimmicks and fakeness, which has become a way of life in the current era. There is nothing more important than self-projection these days and survival in society is becoming difficult with each passing day, both financially and socially. Previously, the youth considered having good clothes, […]
Dr Farzana Bari Once again the Bill on Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) for the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) has been deferred by the joint session of Parliament on April 4. This Bill was unanimously passed by the National Assembly in 2009. It was stuck in the Senate that referred it to the mediation committee […]
The suicide of Fakhra Younus, whose face had allegedly been disfigured by the acid attack on March 17 and some other stories have added to the sense of deprivation in women in the callous patriarchal society of Pakistan. Unfortunately, we inhabit a society where the hierarchy of the gender has been constructed in such a […]
Sadia Qasim Shah PESHAWAR: More and more female students of University of Peshawar are veiling themselves from head to toe to evade eve-teasers, who stalk and harass them on campus without let or hindrance. A visit to this government-run university, one of the biggest in the province and background interviews with female students has revealed […]
ISLAMABAD: Civil society organisations and human rights activists on Monday said they appreciated the passage of a number of pro-women laws by the parliament and expressed the hope that the domestic violence bill will also sail through soon. Speaking at a press conference, Marvi Sarmad, Tahira Abdullah, Naeem Mirza, Arifa Mazhar, Shabana Arif, Aqsa Khan, […]
LAHORE: “I love the Pakistanis from whom I have won so much admiration as an actor,” says famous film star Shabnam as the countdown to her much anticipated return to the city where she once lived and prospered begins. Shabnam and her well-known husband, music composer Robin Ghosh, will arrive in Lahore on April 27 […]
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that it was ready to help India and Pakistan resolve their differences over the Siachen glacier where an avalanche caused the death of 139 Pakistani soldiers during the weekend. At a regular briefing at the State Department, spokesperson Victoria Nuland also said that the United States had sent […]
LAHORE: The second national energy conference decided here on Monday to introduce uniform power loadshedding across the country and to take a number of energy conservation measures. The decisions were announced by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the presence of chief ministers of the four provinces. “We’re aware of the problems Punjab has been […]
THE government has imposed a Rs10,000 fine in case if one wants to cancel a duplicate Computerised National Identity Card. There is no policy to check the issuance of another CNIC. As there is no check and policy, people, most of whom are illiterate, apply for another CNIC instead of lodging an FIR and then […]
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