PESHAWAR/SWABI: Journalists in Peshawar held a protest demonstration against the murder of Qalat Press Club president Mehmood Afridi and demanded of the government to arrest the accused involved in the case. While speaking on the occasion office-bearers of Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ), Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemned […]
ISLAMABAD: Poet, writer, intellectual and academician, Shabnam Shakeel, died on Saturday in Karachi. Her funeral will be offered in H-11 graveyard on Sunday, in Islamabad. Shabnam Shakeel started writing at an early age and published her first book “Tanqeedi Mazameen” in 1965. Besides, she also published books “Shabzaad” (poetry collection) in 1987, “Izteraab” (poetry collection) […]
By: Zubeida Mustafa Activism is action for change. And if change is to result in progress and not chaos, the process must have leadership. In Pakistan most changes that have been experienced in the lives of women have been driven by activists or in other cases they have evolved from socio-economic compulsions. By its very […]
ISLAMABAD: Women outnumber men in the list of Pakistani voters aged 100 years or more. According to updated statistics of the final electoral rolls 2012, exclusively available with Dawn, the number of voters with over 100 years is 3,844. Of them 1,992 are women and 1,852 men. Most of such voters hail from different parts […]
Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: Armed gunmen killed senior journalist Mehmood Jan Afridi in Kalat town of Balochistan on Friday evening. Deputy Commissioner Kalat, Bashir Ahmed Bazai said gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at Mehmood Jan Afridi in Bus Addah area of Kalat. He said the assailants managed to escape from the spot. Police and […]
ISLAMABAD, March 3: Columnist and anchorperson of a news channel, Javed Chaudhry, has contacted Kohsar police, after being threatened by an unidentified person. According to police officials, Mr Chaudhry filed an application in which he alleged that a person had been threatening him through two different phone numbers. A police officer said that First Information […]
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