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Daily Archives: March 16, 2013

Sensitisation: Workshop focuses on disaster management

Workshop aims to sensitise PDMA and DDMA on disaster risk reduction. LAHORE: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)–Pakistan, arranged a two-day workshop on Disaster Risk Management–Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development at a local hotel here on Saturday. NDMA Chairman Maj Gen Saeed Aleem was the […]


Never sympathise with the rapist

By: Sarah Eleazar The responsibility for rape must be shouldered by perverts and their fellow apologists. Ours is not a pluralistic society. The urge to ‘other’ stems from an identity seeped in condemnation of whoever is different. As far as public discourse goes, no one can veer into the ‘sacred space’, protecting the sanctity of […]


India and Pakistan relations and the media

By Seema Mustafa Every other day, when a television anchor in India is bored and wants to stir things up, he or she decides to do a programme on India and Pakistan and brings in a select panel that generally consists of a retired general, a strident and “nationalist” security expert (if it is a […]