LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed grief and grave concern at the death of at least 250 people in devastating fires that gutted two factories in Karachi and Lahore and demanded immediate attention to ensuring safe working conditions for factory workers across the country. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the […]
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday announced Rs 5 million for the rescue operation and rehabilitation of people affected by rain in Shikarpur. The Chief Minister visited rain-hit areas of the interior of Sindh to review the ongoing rescue operation. Qaim Ali Shah headed a meeting at the Deputy Commissioner’s office, which […]
KARACHI: Nadra has assured the citizens of Pakistan that their data is fully secure, and no incidents of data breach have ever been recorded to date, Nadra spokesperson stated this in a statement issued here. He also highlighted that under the directions of Chairman, Tariq Malik, NADRA has established information security department charged with evaluation […]
By: M Ziauddin The main focus of the current media-related debate is about professional standards and adherence, or otherwise, to a universally agreed code of ethics in the broadcast media, particularly TV. The beginning had looked highly promising. The way the private sector TV channels reported the 2005 earthquake or for that matter the lawyers’ […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan is going to help investigate an attack on a journalist by religious extremists.A staffer of The News, Zainul Abedin, was attacked on the night of August 27 outside his residence in Gulshan-e-Iqbal by four men belonging to his locality. The men, punched and kicked him over watching television […]
By: Sonia Malik LAHORE: A complaint has been filed with the Environmental Protection Department citing violations of the Punjab Environmental Protection Act of 2012 by the government in the construction of the Bus Rapid Transit System project. The complaint was filed to EPD Director General Maqsood Lak by Akhtar Awan, an environmental lawyer who runs […]
BY: MUBASHIR MAHMOOD Rimsha Masih is the name that is in the news because of the blasphemy case on her. Rimsha Masih was jailed three weeks ago after she was accused of tearing pages from the holy Quran and burning them. Rimsha Masih is a Pakistani Christian who has now been freed and was taken […]
KARACHI: Additional District and Sessions Court West Abdullah Channa granted pre-arrest bail of an accused of gang rape here on Tuesday. The judge granted bail to Bilal, directing him to furnish surety of Rs 50,000. According to prosecution, he with another accused Rasool Jan tricked with Zahida, a young woman of their locality in Machchar […]
KARACHI: The Chief Justice and the Judges of Sindh High Court have ordered following transfers and postings of District and Sessions Judges, Additional District and Sessions Judges, Senior Civil Judges and Assistant Session Judges, Civil Judges and Judicial Magistrates with immediate effect in the public interest. District and Session Judges: According to the notification, Ameer […]
By: Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: The draft of the new accountability law that an official team has handed over to a PML-N delegation provides that no corruption case will be instituted against any member of a government or bureaucrat after seven years of leaving office. Another key provision of the proposed law says it would be […]
By: Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday expressed his inability to receive the visiting UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and to discuss the matter of missing persons’ cases, which are sub judice. The group is visiting Pakistan from September 10 to 20 on the invitation of the government […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Babar Moghal is an established artist. Whenever he exhibits his works, his subjects and the way he deals with them become equally intense points of debate, which means with him form and content are one and the same… well, almost. The latest exhibition of his works, titled Monolith, opened at VM […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The government has given 30 days to the Abbottabad Commission to submit its report on the 40-minute US air raid on May 2 last year in which the world’s most wanted man, Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, was killed. “The Abbottabad Commission shall complete the inquiry and submit its […]
By: Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: Two persons, including an assistant director of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), were arrested for allegedly raping a girl, police said on Tuesday. Sources said Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered suspension of the accused FIA official. He also ordered an inquiry into the incident. The Secretariat police said after allegedly raping […]
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