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Daily Archives: September 9, 2012

New regime offers 8 types of visas

By: Imaduddin ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India on Saturday signed a new liberal visa agreement, offering eight types of visas, including group, tourist and pilgrim visas. However, there will be separate visas for businessmen and those over 65 years of age. Interior Minister Rehman Malik and External Affairs Minister of India SM Krishna signed the new […]


Auction for 3G licences: Prime Minister asks ministry to expedite process

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has directed the Ministry of Information Technology to expedite the process of auction for 3G licences while ensuring transparency. The Prime Minister was chairing a meeting of the IT Ministry to review the progress made so far by the Ministry of IT and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for sale […]


Christian girl sees ’copter drama after release

By: Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: The Christian girl accused of blasphemy was airlifted from Adiyala jail on Saturday and shifted to an unspecified place in Islamabad under the protective custody of police after completion of legal formalities by her lawyers. Her counsel Tahir Naveed Chaudhry and a senior police officer said the girl would be shifted […]


Burney for ‘no-war’ treaty between India, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney, has requested the governments of India and Pakistan to sign without any further delay ‘no-war treaty for peace’ in the region in the greater interest of human dignity. According to a press release on Saturday, United Nations former expert […]


Promoting Democratic Governance through Effective use of Media Project Grant Agreement No. between National Endowment for Democracy and Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

Brief Summary of the Project: The National Endowment for Democracy supported, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) to support the Rural Media and capacity building of CSOs under Democratic Governance Project for the period covering July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. Project Objectives: • To build the capacity of civil society organizations to work with the […]


Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) In Collaboration with NED Report of Workshop with CSOs on “Working with Media on Human Rights”

September 6-8 2012 Rawalakot Media has been playing its pro active role in highlighting Human Rights and exposing human rights violations and people have been getting relief followed by media reports. The Constitution of Pakistan guarantees the rights of religious minorities but there is contradiction in it as well because on the one side it […]


‘Right to art’: International Children’s Film Festival opens on 17th

By: Aroosa Shaukat LAHORE: The fourth Lahore International Children’s Film Festival (LICFF) scheduled to begin from September 17 to September 22 at the Ali Educational Institute. This year, the festival will also be taken to six cities, including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Karachi and Faisalabad. Organised by Little Art, they are expecting an audience of over […]


Girls at leading edge

MULTAN: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Multan announced the result of Intermediate Annual Examination, 2012 here on Saturday, declaring 37,391 candidates successful out of a total of 69,655. The overall success ratio in the examination stood at 53.68 per cent.Meher Fatima (Roll No 506336) of Nishat College of Science for Girls, Multan […]


Girls’ school blown up in Mohmand

GHALANAI: Unidentified men blew up a government girls’ primary school in Khazeena area of tehsil Safi in Mohmand Agency late on Friday night. According to sources, the attackers blew up with explosives, the school in Zeenat Kor area and fled. No loss of life was reported as the school was empty at the time of […]


26 corruption cases detected in Railways since 2008, Senate told

By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: Minister for Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour has told the Senate that as many as 26 cases of financial and administrative mismanagement were detected in the loss-making organisation since 2008. Investigations are underway in 18 cases while four of these cases have been referred to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for […]


A collage of imagination-based art

By: Anil Datta Karachi: It looked as the most unlikely venue for an art exhibition, a locality which by all accounts was derelict, in the most rundown quarter of the town, inhabited by simple countryfolk from one of the provinces upcountry, with the pristine culture of that province so very visible all over. The actual […]


Obituary

Karachi: Jang Group’s former newspaper agent Syed Azmat Ali aka Ashoo Bhai passed away on Friday night due to cardiac failure. He was 70. He has left behind his wife, five daughters and three sons to mourn his death. He was laid to rest at Korangi No. 6 graveyard. His funeral prayers were offered by […]


10 Jirga members held for giving girl in Swara

MINGORA: The police here on Saturday arrested 10 members of a jirga who had asked the family of a 12-year girl to give her in swara to settle some dispute. The arrested jirga members include Khan Rehman, Shah Jehan, Sher, Abbas, Taj Mohammad Khan, Mian Sher Ali, Rozi Khan, Janay and Shamsher Ali. It was […]


Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance challenged in Supreme Court

KARACHI: The Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO), 2012, promulgated by the Sindh governor in the early hours of Friday, was challenged in the Supreme Court on Saturday. In his petition filed in the SC Karachi registry, Syed Iqbal Kazmi impleaded the principal secretaries of the Sindh governor and the chief minister, the chief secretary, […]