By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: In all likelihood, YouTube will remain inaccessible in Pakistan for the foreseeable future. Islamabad’s negotiations with Google – the internet giant that owns YouTube – may prove fruitless unless Pakistan ensures legal support to the regulation of digital content, The Express Tribune has learned. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been […]
By: Dr Rakhshinda Perveen The death penalty in the specific social, economic and political context of Pakistan should not be seen as a desire or urge for revenge What should be sthe approach of the advocates and activists for women’s rights and gender mainstreaming in a society like ours where vulgar display of wealth (ill […]
By: S Saba Bokhari O Woman ! Thy pain in Anonymity — The reprehension, the revolt — for public scrutiny, Mandatory. Women of South Asia — Unite. The history of your pain, A story without a name — Speaks volumes. You are one woman —but you represent them all. Women of South Asia — Unite. […]
LAHORE: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says it has received information that a 19-year-old tea vender in Burewala was sodomised and poisoned and he later died in hospital in November 2012. According to a press release issued by AHRC, the rapists threw the victim, Aamir Baloch, in the mud after sodomising him, intending that […]
By: Ayesha Asghar We have heard all about how rape is used as weapon in mass-scale war. Several thousand women were brutally raped in the 1971 war in East Pakistan to silence all the voices that were being raised against the Government of Pakistan. Every year, Pakistanis wail about their prisoners of war and how […]
ISLAMABAD: The Chairman Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan and member National Assembly Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi has said that new IT based projects will be introduced in IPO Pakistan to facilitate and update the status of applications, which had been filed for registration of IP rights. He stated this while presiding a meeting of IP […]
Karachi: Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar ul Haq has said his department had allowed 353 teachers through a notification to work part time in the media or non-governmental organisations (NGOs) after performing their professional duties. However, he added, they should not take undue advantage of this relaxation and must pay attention to […]
By: Irfan Husain THE recent cold-blooded murder of six young women charity workers in Swabi confirms a change in Taliban tactics. While never hesitating in their slaughter of undefended civilians, they now see that killing women volunteers is not just easy, but attains multiple results. Many females in the NGO sector and government health programmes […]
By: AZMAT ANSARI AS a teacher of Media Sciences for more than a decade in different universities at the MBA and BBA levels, I keep an eye on new developments on radio, television and press. Turkish soaps are a development on the media scene. These have introduced much that is new and fresh, for example, […]
MARDAN: Famous Pashto poet Pir Gohar died of cardiac arrest here on Friday. He was 81. A large number of people, including those from literary, civil society and political circles, attended his funeral prayers held at Pirano Park in Piranudaga area here. Popularly known as Shaer-i-Aman, Mr Gohar had started his literary career after completing […]
ISLAMABAD: Women artisans demonstrating their skills at the ongoing Pakistan Week Celebrations at Lok Virsa have become most popular among the visitors for the last four days. The most prominent among them are Rehana Anees in Sindhi embroidery, Fehmida Malik, Munaza and Musarart in Punjabi embroidery, Fouzia Naheed in doll making, Ambreen in traditional toys, […]
By: Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon applauded on Friday Malala Yusufzai for her courage and determination and declared “we continue to work to ensure every girl will go to school”. In a statement released through his spokesman as Malala left the Birmingham hospital where she was recovering from the gunshot inflicted […]
LONDON: The British hospital treating Malala Yousufzai said on Friday that she had been temporarily discharged ahead of a major surgery on her skull. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham said it was delighted with Malala’s progress and that she would stay at her family’s nearby temporary home before undergoing the surgery in a few weeks. […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over a steep rise in incidents and manifestations of violence across the country and called for concerted efforts to undo the damage done to the social fabric by brutalisation of society. In a statement on Friday, the commission said: “The HRCP notes with great […]
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