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Daily Archives: December 3, 2012

Two killed over Karo-Kari

LARKANA: A couple was killed over an alleged charge of Karo-kari near Kandhkot on Sunday. Police said that in the jurisdiction of Kandhkot, unidentified armed men abducted the Dr Shams Buriro and a woman from the border limits of Sindh-Balochistan near Khanki area and killed them in Balochistan. The News


ANP government to launch media campaign on its successes

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and Public Relations, Mian Iftikhar Hussein has directed the Information Department to carry out a full-fledged special campaign for highlighting the achievements and success of five-year tenure of the present government so as the general public could be aware of it. He issued these directives while chairing a high-level meeting […]


A bygone era of excellence

By: SYED NAYYAR UDDIN AHMAD On the 48th anniversary of Pakistan Television Corporation, I salute PTV and all its former and current staff members for their contribution to making PTV a globally recognized institute with their toil and sweat. Whenever, the history of television will be written, the immense contribution of PTV in projecting the […]


Burney condemns demolition of temple

KARACHI: Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney, has very strongly condemned the demolition of a temple in Karachi and demanded strict action against the builder and ensuring safety of the Hindu community. Ansar Burney said the demolition of a century-old Hindu Temple in Karachi on Saturday […]


Floods 2012: Three months on, victims await government aid

By: Zahid Gishkori ISLAMABAD: Three months on, most of the five million people affected by the monsoon floods this year are waiting for financial assistance from the government. Many of them lost family members, crops, homes and cattle. The monsoon season’s devastating after-effects damaged crops over 1.2 million acres of farmland. Over 571 people lost […]


The economic benefits of more women in the workforce

By: Shahid Javed Burki The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank My previous columns on the contribution Pakistani women could make to the development of the economy invited a number of comments. Some of these were sceptical of the claims I was making. There was an […]


Acid attacks: Turning a blind eye to laws to curb violence against women

By: Sumera Khan ISLAMABAD: It takes an easily available bottle of tezaab (acid) worth Rs50, a very angry man and a woman whose life is about to change forever within minutes. Acid-throwing does not only disfigure a face or cause injuries that burn and cause excruciating pain; the victim’s life changes forever. If she survives, […]


Residents of Malam Jabba rally to save their dwindling forests

By: Fazal Khaliq SWAT: Thousands of people from ten tribes based in the Malam Jabba region on Sunday rallied against timber smugglers and illegal logging, denuding the forests of Swat. The angry protesters held placards inscribed with slogans demanding help in saving their forests and were chanting slogans against the parties involved. They demanded strict […]


Jirga decision: 6,500 tribal women get back their right to vote

KALABAGH: It took 6,500 disenfranchised women of Paaikhel tribe 46 years to get back their right to vote – thanks to a tribal jirga. The jirga was convened by Ayla Malik, daughter of Nawab Malik Allah Yar Khan, the Nawab of Kalabagh, and central leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), at the residence of Razaul Mustafa […]


Pakistan joins global campaign to end women’s plight

KARACHI: Activist Eve Ensler’s global protest movement, One Billion Rising, to end violence against women reached Pakistan on Sunday with the launch of the campaign by NGO Aurat Foundation in Karachi at the Arts Council. Apart from a seminar, a number of women and human rights organisations set up their stalls at the event to […]


Phone packages, privacy, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the law

By: Ali Moeen Nawazish The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) recently put a halt on the late night telephone packages offered by telecommunication in Pakistan. Telecommunications challenged the decision in court. The PTA in response submitted transcripts of a few late night conversations in court, after which telecommunications companies withdrew their case. If you are to […]


Four MQM lawmakers, including Haider Abbas Rizvi, resign

By: Asim Yasin & Tahir Hasan Khan ISLAMABAD: Four more MNAs of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), including Deputy Parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Haider Abbas Rizvi, have resigned after failing to submit affidavits to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on not having dual nationality. The four MQM lawmakers who resigned include Haider […]


Government repairs girls’ school in Bajaur Agency

PESHAWAR: The government has rehabilitated and reconstructed the Bajaur Public School (Girls section) to provide better learning environment to the female students. Three additional class rooms were constructed and necessary furniture and equipments were also provided to facilitate the students. Official sources told APP on Sunday here that the school was constructed by political administration […]


‘Pitras ke mazameen’ translated into Arabic

By: Rauf Parekh Roy Campbell once remarked that “translations, like wives, are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive”. Excluding the words ‘like wives’, one tends to agree with Campbell as some critics believe that it is very difficult to translate a piece of literature into another language both faithfully and beautifully […]