KARACHI: Women and children staged a demonstration on Saturday to protest against the targeted attacks on Shia women and genocide of Shia Muslims. They were carrying placards and banners inscribed with the slogans, “Stop Shia genocide”, “Punish takfiri nasbi terrorists and launch operation against terrorists all over Pakistan and “No to criminal silence against anti-Shia […]
KARACHI: The incidents of violence are on rise in tribal areas of Sindh especially in districts bordering Balochistan province. This was stated by the women speakers at a one day session organised by Pirbhat Women Development Society in support with the UNFPA-Pakistan on ‘Women Friendly Spaces’ here the other day. Pirbhat Women Development Society, which […]
LAHORE: Noted scholar, expert on Iqbal, columnist, former director research Nazaria-i-Pakistan Foundation Prof Muzaffar Mirza died, aged, 73 on Saturday. His funeral prayer will be held at Maadr-e-Millat Park adjacent to Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehrik-i-Pakistan, 100-Shahrah-e-Quaid-i-Azam at 11 am on Sunday (today). TheNation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistari Trust (NPT) Chairman Majid Nizami, Pakistan Movement Workers Trust Chairman Colonel (r) […]
Five more persons, including a former union council Nazim, were killed in separate incidents of violence in various parts of the Sindh metropolis on Saturday. Unknown armed men critically injured a 40-year-old man named Intizar Alvi at a tea shop in Jehangirabad in Nazimabad in the limits of Rizvia police station. The man died on […]
Provincial Minister for Education, Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has said that new women universities are being established in Bahawalpur, Multan, Sialkot and Faisalabad for enhancing ratio of higher education among women, whereas, priority is being given to professional colleges like the home economics college. He expressed these views while addressing the 43rd convocation of […]
By: Mehr Tarar There was just one thing that became the end of it all for Mr Abbas, and that caused his daughter’s breathing to almost stop. They were Shia Each breath she takes is borrowed. Her slender body is connected to different machines, and those machines are what keep her alive. Her usually rosy […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will ensure protection for women rights after coming into power, said PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz. Addressing women party workers from Bahawalpur during a meeting at the party’s central secretariat on Saturday, Maryam said that the PML-N would do an effective legislation to safeguard the rights of women. She asked […]
GILGIT: Experts at a workshop called for assessing the impact of climate change in Pakistan and taking policy measures to combat the looming threats of food insecurity in the country. They were speaking at a workshop titled “Food Security and Climate Change” held at a local hotel here on Saturday. Climate change may decrease crop […]
By: Farah Zia Having already done his two days of theatre, Tuesday morning, on Dec 4, was reserved for a talk at the National College of Arts Auditorium where Naseeruddin Shah was the guest of the Film and Television Department. His arrival slightly delayed, the atmosphere became electrifying with each passing moment. His entry in […]
By: Phyza Jameel The Committee to Protect Journalists in 2012 named 12 countries — including Pakistan, Iraq, Russia, the Philippines, Afghanistan and Mexico — in its annual “impunity index” because they allow deadly violence against the press to go unpunished, calling for a global agenda to shape up around the growing concern of nations around […]
By: Sadaf Baig On November 25, 2012, one of Pakistan’s best known journalists Hamid Mir escaped an assassination attempt when an IED (improvised explosive device) rigged to his car was discovered and defused. The next day, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for planting the explosive and vowed to make another attempt to kill him. In […]
By: Asad Baig Since 2000, over 80 journalists have been killed, hundreds threatened, harassed, intimidated, abducted and attacked. Most of the cases go unregistered, and investigations for those that can even boast the basic FIR, are endlessly and sometimes deliberately delayed and perpetrators roam free. So, what is the reason behind the lack of legal […]
LONDON: President Asif Ali Zardari visited Malala Yousufzai in a British hospital on Saturday. Mr Zardari also met Malala’s family during a private meeting at the specialist Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, where Malala was flown from Pakistan in October following the brutal attack on her school bus. “President Zardari, accompanied by his […]
By: Aoun Sahi Abdul Haq Baloch, a TV reporter and general secretary of Khuzdar Press Club in Balochistan, was shot dead by unidentified men on September 29, 2012. The worst part of the story was that he had been threatened for several weeks before his murder. He had also intimated the district administration, the management […]
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