ISLAMABAD: As many as 50 young girls got engaged in daylong activities of rock climbing, camping and cooking to challenge stereotypes about gender roles, like women cannot undertake any strenuous tasks. The students of leading universities and colleges climbed the Margalla Hills trail in the morning as a symbol of their strength and commitment to […]
* Pakistan to provide seed money for special ‘Malala Fund’ for girls’ education PARIS: President Asif Ali Zardari arrived here on Sunday afternoon to attend an important conference titled “Stand up for Malala-Stand up for girl’s right to education” which is jointly being organised by Pakistan and UNESCO, at the latter’s Paris headquarters. The president […]
* Pakistani hackers regain control of Punjab Assembly’s website within 30 minutes * Profane image posted on hacked web page By Kashif Hussain LAHORE: A cyber brawl started between Pakistani and Bangladeshi hackers on Sunday when the latter hacked the official website of Punjab Assembly (PA) (www.pap.gov.pk) but Pakistani hackers regained control of the website […]
Lawmakers condemn demolition of Shri Rama Pir Mandir in Soldier Bazaar. KARACHI: On the eve of the Human Rights Day, representatives of four NGOs, as well as lawmakers gathered to discuss the plight of religious minorities in the country. The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), Civil Society Support Programme, […]
By Farrukh Khan Pitafi The writer hosts a show called “Capital Circuit” for News One Television. The bane of all our woes. Conservatives accuse it of spreading vulgarity and obscenity, challenging our family values. Moderates and liberals complain about growing sensationalism, voyeurism and a cacophony of political shallowness. Courts find it a vehicle of contempt, […]
Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: Already in doubt, the high profile future auction of 3G spectrum, expected to fetch between one to two billion dollars, has become a serious controversy as one of the three members of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has questioned the validity and legality of the consultants hired by the PTA for the purpose. […]
LONDON: The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown on Monday announced appointment of Malala Yousafzai’s father, Ziauddin Yusufzai, as Special UN Adviser on Global Education. He has been appointed to assist the work of getting every child to school by the end of 2015, an announcement early Monday morning said. The statement issued […]
Anil Datta Karachi: Amid profuse fanfare and hearty applause, Nasira Zuberi’s Kaanch Ka Chiragh was launched towards the closing of the Fifth International Urdu Conference at the Arts Council Sunday evening. In her book, Nasira has made very profound comments on life with all its vagaries, in all its colours, the beauty, and the tragedy […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The highlight of the last day of the 5th International Urdu conference on Sunday was a gripping interactive discussion, moderated by Dr Asif Farrukhi, on Urdu literature’s stature vis-à-vis world literature. Dr Nomanul Haq commenced the debate by suggesting that unlike the Middle Ages, today it was difficult to detach or disassociate […]
MITHI: A couple of Kotri who drew the ire of their relatives by tying the knot in a court against their wishes appealed to authorities concerned here on Sunday to protect them from their anger as they intended to kill them. Addressing a news conference at the press club here, Ms Shazia alias Shahar Banu […]
THIS refers to recent tragic incident wherein a young man jumped to his death from the eighth floor of a building in Karachi to save himself from fire that had erupted on that floor. Owais’s death posed terrible picture of our society. When he was hanging from the building and was struggling for his life […]
Faiza Ilyas KARACHI: “I can’t afford to send my kid to school when there is hunger at home. I spend the whole day looking for labour now while my only son, who used to be a school student, now tends to animals,” Irshad Ali, a resident of Ghulam Nabi Jamali village of tehsil Usta Mohammad, […]
Saeed Ahmed Rid MY three-year-old daughter, Sobh wanted to have a ritual of danwan which is reserved only for boys in some areas of rural Sindh. The ritual is held when a boy begins to learn how to walk. It involves putting a rope between the child’s legs. The rope is then cut by the […]
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