Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Pakistani women artists have come a long way. In the past they were not taken as seriously as their male counterparts. In the 1960s when the world started taking note of Pakistani artists, women painters and sculptors had already begun carving a niche for themselves. Today Pakistani artists have earned international renown […]
ISLAMABAD: The information ministry apparently failed on Tuesday to convince the Supreme Court on why it was claiming privilege not to make public one list pertaining to expenditure of its secret fund which had not yet been declassified. It conceded that ‘content writing’ by ‘ghost writers’ on certain subjects was the most expensive item for […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday took notice of suicide attempt by two gang rape victim sisters in protest against non-arrest of alleged rapists and directed the sessions judge Lahore to look into the matter and submit a comprehensive report in this regard. According to a news report, the mother of the victims submitted […]
Ansar Abbasi, writing in Jang on March 25, wrote of a piece of information he got from an undisclosed source. The government had introduced a textbook, meant to teach Urdu as a subject, which according to him, had done away with certain chapters pertaining to religious learning. According to him, it had also deleted all […]
MITHI: In Tharparkar, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Muslim or a Hindu. If you happen to be a woman then you’re automatically at the lowest rung of the social ladder, regardless of your caste or creed. For the women of this region, standing for elections is a distant dream, and most are not even […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan made public on Monday a list of eminent intellectuals, journalists, writers, anchorperson and news-agencies that were paid by the previous PPP Information Ministry through its secret fund. The Supreme Court list contains itemized particulars of those expenditures for which the information ministry now does not claim privilege or secrecy. The […]
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