By: Daud Malik ISLAMABAD: General elections are upon us, again for the third time this century in the times of private media dominating our lives. Clearly a break from the previous century when we would either have military men telling us how they planned to change everything for good or the squabbling elected governments sent […]
KARACHI: At least thirty young leaders here on Sunday formed a Youth Network for Democracy and Human Rights that aims to link it to other South Asian groups to make it further stronger, working in the context of specifically Pakistani society. The network had come up after the 10-day training arranged by the Sindh Community […]
While a colossal 77 percent of both men and women participate in the labour force in Vietnam, women participation rate in Pakistan is a skimpy 28 percent. Gender differences in employment are striking worldwide where less than half of women have jobs while men dominate the job market by all means. The World Development Report […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Alliance Francaise Karachi (AFK) recently organised an inspiring solo exhibition of paintings of renowned artist Shaheen Siddiqui at AFK Gallery. Siddiqui started her art career before 1992. She has never done any degree or course in art field, however, her talent is the God gifted. She has done various solo exhibitions […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm at growing intolerance and abuse of belief, continued incidents of enforced disappearance and illegal detention of citizens in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, proliferation of sectarian violence and a general breakdown in law and order in the country and called these overwhelming challenges to the […]
By: Kamal Siddiqi Out of the blue there comes news of hope. In a survey conducted by the till-now-unknown New Economics Foundation, we are told that Pakistan ranked 16th among 151 countries of the world on the Happy Planet Index (HPI) 2012, beating India and the United States, which ranked 32nd and 105th respectively. Costa […]
By: Zahid Gishkori ISLAMABAD: There may be nothing honourable about cold-blooded murder but in some tribal pockets of southern Punjab, honour trumps life, unabashedly. A 16-year-old girl, *Sana, was allegedly beheaded by her uncle for eloping with a boy. Her body was then purportedly dumped into a nearby canal. “I never thought my brother will […]
By: Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: A petition is being filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday to restrain the media from becoming a tool in the hands of a few well-placed persons who are known for spitting venom against the judiciary, in clear violation of the Constitution to safeguard their mega corruption and heinous […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The government has warned the officials concerned of all the ministries, divisions and departments for initiating criminal prosecution through National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) if they do not implement the centralised advertisement policy for print and electronic media in letter and spirit. An official letter written by […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting here on Saturday rejected the comments of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) regarding centralized advertisement policy. The spokesman of the ministry said that Press Information Department (PID) has not reformulated the advertisement policy but has just reiterated contents of the existing policy and urged the federal […]
By: Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: Friends, music lovers and culturally curious diplomats gathered at Kuch Khaas to experience something that all folk music fans knew would be a soul-pleasing performance. The singing and dancing possessed such spirit and authenticity that, according to the audience, it deserved an abundance of praise. Allan Faqir Junior on stage did […]
KARACHI: The participants in a rally taken out against an anti-Islam film made in the United States have demanded that the government take steps at diplomatic level for legislation of an international law against blasphemy. The participants in the rally organised by the Jamaat-i-Islami Karachi chapter on Sunday, condemned the US for the sacrilegious film […]
By: Anwar Mansuri ISLAMABAD: Veteran journalist Asrar Ahmad, 89, who died Saturday evening in Rawalpindi’s Westridge Valley area, was buried not by his near and dear ones but by the local community on Sunday morning. Only five journalists from Islamabad attended the burial of this pressman who struggled for journalists’ rights and then also laid […]
QUETTA: Four people were shot dead in Balochistan on Sunday as incidents of target killing continued unabated in the province. Gunmen on a motorbike opened fire at Rahib Ali in Quetta’s Qambrani road area, killing him on the spot. Mohammad Yasin was gunned down in Musa colony on Sariab road. His relatives placed the body […]
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