Larkana: Students of the Quaid-e-Awam Engineering University’s Larkana campus on Monday brutally tortured a private television cameraman, Waqar Magsi, at the Chandka Medical College Hospital’s emergency ward. The students also snatched his camera and mobile phone. The journalist was there for the follow-up to a clash between two student groups inside the engineering university, in […]
By Saadia Qamar KARACHI: So much has happened in Pakistan since 2011, but there is one person who we still haven’t managed to forget even after a year’s passing — the great artist Moin Akhtar. But the real devastation of this loss has been felt by his peers and his family; these were the people […]
MNAs claim the authorities neglect certain groups during their events. ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians expressed dismay on Monday over the absence of minority representation in the activities of the Lok Virsa and asked concerned authorities to address the issue promptly. Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on National Integration and Heritage highlighted “worrisome cases” in the […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has accepted a petition from a veteran journalist and directed the National Press Trust (formerly Progressive Papers Limited) to release his pension within 30 days. In his verdict, Justice Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan criticised the NPT, saying that its retired employees had engaged in an arduous litigation process all the […]
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting a report submitted by the Punjab inspector general (IG) in the abduction and rape of a woman, Sonia Naz, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Punjab Police to register a first information report (FIR) in the murder of her father-in-law, Malik Yousaf. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar […]
ISLAMABAD: Disposing of a suo motu case, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to furnish its report to the SC Registrar’s Office within three weeks regarding an amendment in NADRA’s regulation to resolve problems faced by Hindu women in obtaining Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs). After the amendment […]
Babar Ayaz Has deliberate Sanskritisation of Hindi and Arabicisation of Urdu been successful? Is culture a static thing that can be protected from the influences of the economically developed societies’ culture? The last 25 years have recorded the fastest growth in science and technology in human history. It is generally acknowledged that in the post-Second […]
THIS is with regard to Hassan Qayyum’s comment ‘Women in public buses: another view’ (March 24). If one is to count the number of women who are actually able to sit, they are not more than 12. Women literally try to fill in the nooks where they often have children alongside them. If the area […]
WOMEN can play a vital role in the development and overall increase in the GDP of the country. This needs no confirmation that gender equality can bring an economic change and make a self-reliant society. But the way women’s contributions in our society are neglected is deplorable. Many factors are proactive in this regard. Religious […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) will present an Urdu adaptation of the famous play, Art, at the Arts Council auditorium from May 4 to 13. This was announced by Napa head of theatre Rahat Kazmi on the academy premises on Monday. The play is directed by Samina Nazir and adapted […]
THIS is regarding the article, “Colleagues’ tribute to Murtaza Razvi” (April 20). Many thanks for the very touching and very personal tribute to Murtaza Razvi representing the feelings of all Dawn colleagues. The last few days have been very difficult since hearing of his death. I received the news of this tragedy from a former […]
ISLAMABAD: Sonia Naz, an assault victim, told the Supreme Court on Monday that she was receiving threats from her tormenters for taking the matter to the court. Ms Naz appeared before a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and claimed that after the last hearing on March 30, she had […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A policeman killed his 15-year-old daughter for refusing to marry a man older than her in Jalal Tagar village near Mithiani late on Sunday evening. Police constable Dodo Khan Tagar was infuriated when his daughter Amnat refused to marry the man of his choice and tribe who was older than her. In a […]
GUJRAT: Federal Minister for Information Qamar Zaman Kaira says there should be no politics on the plane crash. The government has formed a judicial commission to probe the crash rather than appease any political party. The minister was talking to reporters at his political office in Lalamusa on Monday. He said the PPP government firmly […]
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