Human rights, legally speaking, are not based on some unwavering and impossible standard. Even international law reflects a sort of lowest common denominator approach to what is considered a human right. Within that international law framework, certain rights termed non-derogable, are preserved regardless of the circumstances within a state and certain rights are flexible depending […]
Karachi: Speakers at a literary progamme on Wednesday paid tribute to great Pashto poets Khushal Khan Khattak and Ghani Khan. The event was organised at the Arts Council by the Pakhtoon Thinkers Forum (PTF). Prof Sehar Ansari said Ghani Khan (1914-1996) and Khushal Khan Khattak (1913-1689) were national heroes of the Pashtuns. “Though Ghan Khan […]
THE celebration of festivals was a good step. It was for the first time that a cultural festival was celebrated in Sindh. But the way it was celebrated I can’t say that it was a cultural festival. A lot of events could have been included by having exhibitions of handicraft, indigenous sports, horse and cattle […]
ISLAMABAD: Internet campaigners said on Thursday there was no excuse for the government to maintain its ban on YouTube, after a US court ordered the removal of an anti-Islam film from the website. The video-sharing website has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012 over its failure to take down the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ movie […]
Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) directed the federal law officer on Thursday to ascertain whether a law allowing journalists not to disclose their sources of information existed. The directive came during a hearing on a petition of Beena Khalid, who accused law enforcement agencies of picking up her husband, Khalid Shahmim, 37, an employee […]
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