KARACHI: Governments and humanitarian agencies have miserably failed in providing quick and adequate relief in the worst flood affected districts of Sindh and Balochistan, which resulted in increased post-flood human losses in spread of diseases. Over two million flood affected people are homeless and living without any relief service as post-flood diseases are taking lives […]
By: MOHSIN RAZA DASHTI In this modern age of information technology media acts as a pillar of the state. Without a free press countries cannot compete internationally. Media has gained stature in Pakistan but regrettably our media has forgotten to impart essential message to the people instead of pandering to a few people. When we […]
NOOR PUR THAL: Religious, religio-political and political parties and various educational institutions continued to hold demonstrations and rallies in the city to protest against the anti-Islam movie made by a US filmmaker. Al-Huda Public School held a demonstration at Kashmir Chowk to protest against the anti-Islam movie. A large number of students from various institutions […]
By: FAZAL SHER Security remains on high alert in the capital city and law enforcement agencies have not yet removed containers and barbed wires placed around the Red Zone. “The city police have received information that some organisations are planning protests this coming Friday which may turn violent and consequently the city police has decided […]
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on Wednesday signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to develop a common approach for better coordination and cooperation to work effectively on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in Pakistan. This initiative […]
ISLAMABAD: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Interior Ministers’ Conference has passed the resolution moved by Pakistan against the anti-Islam film. Interior Minister Rehman Malik had presented a resolution against the blasphemous video at the SAARC Interior Ministers’ Conference in Male, Maldives, said a message received from Maldives on Wednesday. Malik had urged […]
By: Rasul Bakhsh Rais The cowboy logic is very simple and has been known for ages; if you cannot beat them, join them. This is what the Government of Pakistan has done in closing down the country and announcing that the major ruling party, the PPP, will join the protest marches against the blasphemous video, […]
By: Roshaneh Zafar The United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “the right to freedom of expression upholds the rights of all to express their views and opinions freely. It is essentially a right which should be promoted to the maximum extent possible.” However, it is important to note that this right is […]
KARACHI: International professional social networking website – LinkedIn – denied on Wednesday that it was planning open a local office in Pakistan. LinkedIn refuted the claims of a story filed by the state-owned wire service Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), which quoted the Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla saying that Linkedin was planning […]
By: Rabia Mughal The images are depressingly familiar: the mob of angry men clashing with the police, smashing car windows, arm stretched out behind them ready to fling an ablaze bottle. Their seething anger seeps through the electronic screens and spills into the consciousness of the Western world. The US government ran $70,000 worth of […]
ISLAMABAD: The US government is responsible for the anti-Islam movie ‘Innocence of Muslims’, leading Pakistani Ulema declared on Wednesday. Conference leaders said that since President Barack Obama specifically said during the UN General Assembly session that the movie could not be banned because of constitutional provisions for freedom of expression, this was clear evidence against […]
By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: A day before the consultative session with as many as 15 political parties here, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Wednesday took some important decisions, which included ‘registration’ of seven new political parties and placing the issue of granting the right of vote to overseas Pakistani before the Thursday’s meeting here […]
By: Khalid Khokhar The controversial visit of UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to evaluate the missing persons issue has brought Balochistan into the spotlight. Earlier this year, the US Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired by Dana Rohrabacher, staged an unusual US Congressional hearing on human rights abuses in Balochistan, accusing Pakistan’s […]
By: Ammar Shahbazi Karachi: If an artist deftly manages to capture the life of inanimate objects with her brush, the objects come alive – literally. And when they glow on the canvas with all their subtleties, from the overlooked natural curves of the pieces to the impressions of light and shades working their magic on […]
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