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Daily Archives: October 10, 2012

‘772 killed in Sindh tribal feuds in 3 years’

KARACHI: A study on the “Impact of tribal conflicts on economic, social and cultural life in upper Sindh”, conducted in eight districts, including Khairpur, Sukkur, Shikarpur, Ghotki, Larkana, Qambar-Shahdadkot, Jacobabad and Kashmore-Kandhkot, has revealed closure of education and health facilities, displacement of people and above all burdening the women with earning livelihood for the families […]


Human Rights activists condemn attack on Malala

ISLAMABAD: The members of Insani Haqooq Ittehad (IHI), an alliance of civil society organisations and human rights activists, strongly condemned the attack on Malala Yousuf Zai, the young peace activist from Swat. The statement released on Tuesday by the alliance said, “We take this attack, not only an act of violence and terrorism, but also […]


Two sisters abducted

SHEIKHUPURA: Two real sisters were abducted from Village Daoke in the limit of City Muridke Police here on Tuesday. According to details, two real sisters of Liaqat Ali were returning home after purchasing some household items along with their sister-in-law. When they reaching near home, two accused identified as Waheed and Noor Hussain, riding a […]


Consultative workshop on ‘Media for Peace’ held

There is a greater need for cross-media collaboration within Pakistani media to promote peace in the country through exchange and implementation of best practices of responsible reporting, said prominent broadcast and print media journalists at the end of a two-day consultative workshop on peace building that concluded here on Tuesday. Around 27 TV anchorpersons and […]


Inter-connect charges: National Accountability Bureau completes inquiry of Rs 47bn tax evasion

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has completed inquiry of Rs 47 billion tax evasion in inter-connect charges and with approval of the NAB chairman, formal investigation would be started within the next two weeks and a reference against the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) officials and mobile phone companies is to be filed in […]


Promoting IT entrepreneurship in Punjab

By: Khurram Zafar Fortune magazine recently published a list of the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time and more than 50 percent of these entrepreneurs belong to the IT industry Entrepreneurship is the backbone of any economy and Pakistan’s is no different. We are seemingly a nation of entrepreneurs — from a small-scale farmer in […]


Environmental hazard: Karachi’s garbage piles up as coffers empty

By: Sameer Mandhro KARACHI: Private sweepers hired out of desperation to collect the mounds of garbage that have piled up in Karachi have started burning it to cut corners. The crisis developed after the city sanitation staff stopped making the rounds over a week ago over unpaid salaries. Saddar and Lyari are particularly badly hit. […]


Peer pressure is the answer

By: M Ziauddin It is the job of the media to keep the government of the day under a very close watch and play the watchdog role to the best of its ability and capacity. The purpose is to keep the government from transgressing the civilised norms of governance; to discourage it from taking liberties […]


Two bills on women in Punjab Assembly

LAHORE: The Punjab government is all set to introduce two new women-specific bills in the coming session of the Punjab Assembly to promote gender equality and to protect women rights. According to a press release on Tuesday, the first piece of legislation titled, “The Punjab Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Bill 2012” […]


Burney thanks India for Pak boy’s release

KARACHI: Ansar Burney Trust International vice chairman Fahad Burney has thanked Indian external affairs and home ministries, and Indian High Commission in Islamabad for the release of a 13-year-old boy and five other Pakistani prisoners, says a press release. Kashif, a residence of Okara, had mistakenly crossed Pakistan-India boarder and was arrested in India on […]


Islamabad High Court bars media from printing, airing anti-judiciary material

By: Faisal Kamal Pasha ISLAMABAD: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman “to ensure that no programme containing uncommendable, malicious and wicked material is telecast by any of the channels in which person of the honourable chief justice of Pakistan […]


No choice but to hear you opens at Canvas

By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The frequently quoted soliloquy ‘To be or not to be’ from William Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet has this profound line about death, “tis a consummation devoutly to be wished”. And it is the ‘undiscovered land from whose bourn no traveller returns’. In the history of mankind, death has been the subject of […]


Women as chattel

LAST year, a bill was passed that outlaws, among other practices that exploit women, offering the latter in marriage to settle disputes. But the emergence of a new wani case in Balochistan proves that in Pakistan putting down laws on paper is only the starting point of a long, hard struggle for women’s rights. Such […]


Gender uplift, juvenile protection: Fata gets funds but not laws

By: Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR: The government has allocated huge amount of funds for gender development and juvenile protection in the Annual Development Programme for Fata without extending the relevant laws to tribal areas and setting up the required infrastructure there. The Fata Civil Secretariat earmarked Rs60 million in the ADP for tribal areas for current […]