KARACHI: The Centre of Excellence for Women’s Studies, University of Karachi is organising one day seminar titled “Ageing Women: Issues, Challenges and Threats faced by Ageing Home-based working women in Karachi” on the International Women’s Day (March 8), at the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Studies, University of Karachi. Provincial Minister Tauqeer Fatiman Bhutto and […]
THE All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has thanked Minister for Information Qamar Zaman Kaira for resolving the issue of Centralised Media Policy to the satisfaction of the Society and clear the outstanding dues on account of federal government’s advertisements for the 2008-2012 period. According to a press release, a delegation of the APNS apprised the […]
HYDERABAD: A meeting of civil society activists held here on Tuesday resolved to fight extremism and fundamentalism by spreading love and fraternity through cultural events. The meeting was presided over by a group of women panellists, including Shahnaz Sheedi. The event titled ‘Call for a secular and mystic Sindh’ was organised in the backdrop of […]
By: Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS: “Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience at the world body on Monday. He said the religion was for all men and women without discrimination. He observed that the terrorist attack on Malala Yousufzai showed that “the […]
Still only 15-years-old, Malala Yousafzai, whose face is now familiar to the world as a symbol of struggle against the Taliban and as a crusader for the right of all girls to education, has been nominated as one of 259 candidates in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The award is possibly the […]
RAWALPINDI: The Parks and Horticulture Agency (PHA) established to cultivate plants and saplings is on a tree-chopping spree in the garrison city. Over the last one week, the agency has cut down over 20 trees in different parks and dumped them in Nawaz Sharif Park for auction. Ironically, the PHA justified its decision by saying […]
Karachi: Malala Yousufzai, the world’s youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize from Pakistan, was honoured with Ladiesfund Khushhalibank Idol Award at the fifth Ladiesfund Awards 2013 ceremony held at Mohatta Palace. Chief guests included First Women Bank Ltd President Shaqfat Sultana and Poetress of Pakistan Zehra Nigah, who was also the Lifetime Achievement Award […]
By: NAVEED BUTT Islamabad: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended that there should be no special quota for allotment of plots for judges and journalists and for allotment of agricultural land to military officers except the disabled, widows and families of martyrs. According to a report of the PAC submitted by its Chairman Nadeem […]
By: Aroosa Shaukat LAHORE: “Imagine living in a country where state does not provide security to your family or property, where you’re asked to renounce your faith and women in your family are kidnapped. I live through this every day,” Manoj Kumar, a university student, attending a five-day workshop organised by the Youth Parliament of […]
ISLAMABAD: After almost two years of risking human lives, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has finally put an end to boating in Rawal Lake. CDA Parks Directorate officials said a notification was issued to the Lake View Park management on Tuesday asking it to close the boating area. Lake View Park Manager Muhammad Junaid Afzal […]
In a country where terrorist groups can operate freely without government action, kite-flying is considered a bridge too far. As spring approaches, for the sixth year in a row, Basant will not be celebrated in Pakistan. The original ban, imposed by the then nazim of Lahore, was only meant to last for three months but […]
By: Adil Shahzeb The brutal killing of the senior tribal journalist and president of the Miranshah Press Club, Malik Mumtaz, has once again highlighted the conditions that the brave tribal journalists have been working under at the cost of their lives. On February 27, unidentified men in a car in Miranshah, North Waziristan, intercepted Malik […]
By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday recommended ban on telecasting of foreign content by foreign television channels including dramas with Urdu dubbing during 7 pm to 11 pm to save the local artists and drama industry. Senate body also directed for rationalizing showing of foreign contents by 10% […]
By: Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: In little over two months this year, five confirmed journalists were killed in line of their duty – one in North Waziristan and four in Balochistan. Pakistan has been ranked the “most dangerous country” for journalists in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The impunity on crimes against journalists made the situation so […]
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