The fourth national conference on “Media, Elections 2013 and New Democratic Government”, by Department of Mass Communication Federal Urdu University for Arts Sciences and Technology (FUUAST) Karachi will be held on June 4, 2013 here in a local hotel Karachi. The Inaugural Session will be presided by Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal the Vice Chancellor Federal […]
The news that War Against Rape (WAR) may have to wind up its operations due to a lack of donor funding comes as a blow to human rights in Pakistan. The NGO has been providing critical counselling and legal support to rape victims in Pakistan, and has battled several high-profile cases including that of Kainat […]
KARACHI: “If someone had told me ten years ago, that one day I will be going to Harvard, I would have asked them what Harvard was,” stated 23-year old Anum Fatima in a gentle but poised tone. Seated amidst endless volumes of books in the library at The Citizens Foundation, a place she calls “her […]
LAHORE: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) in its meeting rejected all those steps of the government that could put fetters on journalism and right of expression. The meeting of the Standing Committee of the CPNE chaired by CPNE President Jamil Athar Qazi was also attended by Editor-in-Chief of Daily Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation Majid […]
NEW DELHI: The husband of a Pakistani woman waiting for deportation at a state-run shelter home here has appealed to the Indian government to either send her to Pakistan immediately or reunite her with her family in Old Delhi. “Send my wife back to Pakistan or release her to the family. Just don’t forget her […]
PESHAWAR: The police allegedly manhandled a local journalist in the limits of Sharqi Police Station here on Thursday.Talking to reporters at the Peshawar Press Club, the victim Ameer Muavia, reporter for a news agency, said he was passing through a checkpoint near Suri Pul when the cops stopped him and started interrogation. “I showed them […]
PESHAWAR: The members of Sumbal’s family are sitting outside the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit in the Lady Reading Hospital, waiting for doctors to tell them their injured loved one was stable. Sumbal and her colleague Sharafata Bibi were administering polio drops to children in Kaga Wala, Badhaber when they were attacked by two unidentified motorcyclists […]
SUKKUR: A young woman and a man were shot dead on the pretext of karo kari in Khamiso Badani Jatoi village near Khanpur sistrict, Shikarpur on Wednesday morning. According to reports, the assailant, Mehboob Badani Jatoi, had suspected that his wife, Mai Jamul, was involved in an illicit affair with his cousin, Mir Mohammad aka […]
ISLAMBAD: The ACCA Pakistan in recognition of the media support arranged a “Media Networking Event” in Islamabad the other day. Muhtarma Noor Aftab, ACCA Islamabad chief, in her opening address, lauded the role of the media in creating social, political and economic awareness among the people of Pakistan.According to a press release, Muhtarma Noor Aftab […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed cellular companies to ensure that all the franchise holders are mandatorily required to obtain the biometric system and fingerprint devices to be connected with Nadra. Hearing petitions regarding the missing persons, the SHC’s division bench, headed by Chief Justice Mushir Alam, also directed that with effect […]
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N has chosen well-qualified and highly educated females for nine additional reserved women seats that it got in the National Assembly., writes Tariq Butt. Begum Tehmina Daultana, who was defeated in the May elections from her traditional constituency of NA-169 Vehari by independent candidate Tahir Iqbal, has made it to the National Assembly […]
LARKANA: Mystery shrouds murder of two sisters allegedly by their brother-in-law and their burial without proper funeral rites near Dhing village on the outskirts of Sujawal Junejo town. Syed Bashir Ahmed Shah, husband of one of the deceased sisters, told journalists on Wednesday that his brother Syed Ghulam Abbas Shah had strangled to death his […]
KARACHI: A woman was killed inside her home in Saeedabad, police said. They added Rasheeda Iqbal, 35, was stabbed to death at her residence in Sector 8. The SHO said some relatives visited her home before the killing to settle a family matter where a scuffle broke out. The suspects managed to escape after the […]
KARACHI: Artists are a strange group of people. More often than not, their work begins on a personal note and by the time it finishes it assumes the kind of significance that relates to society at large. A group exhibition titled ‘Connections’ that began at the Canvas Art Gallery on Tuesday hints at this very […]
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