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Daily Archives: May 28, 2015

Loopholes: Women protection bill needs major changes, says activists

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LAHORE: The draft Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Bill has many shortcomings, rights activists said at a discussion on Wednesday. The event was organised by Shirkat Gah, the Women’s Resource Centre. The speakers expressed reservations over the bill, recently tabled in the Punjab Assembly, it has been referred to a standing committee. Lawyer Hina […]


Transgenders should be part of family, get inheritance: CII

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ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has recommended that transgenders be made part of their families and given a share in inheritance. It also recommended the government ‘Khulaa’ be separated from ‘Tanseekh-e-Nikah’ (cancellation of marriage). It recommended to the government to amend the Family Law of 1961 and the Dissolution of Marriage Act, 1939, […]


Agreement signed for online medical education

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Karachi: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) of Lahore and PharmEvo, a private pharmaceutical company, have signed a Memorandum of Understating (MoU) for Online Continuing Medical Education (CME) portal to initiate CME/CDE courses for the healthcare professionals to build up their professional capacity. This public-private partnership in the field of medical education is the first […]


ARY apologises for yet another false report

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KARACHI: The ARY apologised to Prime Minister’s Advisor for Aviation Shujaat Azim for false allegations levelled by its anchorperson Mubashar Luqman against him. In one of the allegations the anchorperson had said an aeroplane of the PIA was sold to the Advisor’s daughter. Other such allegations related to murder of Rafiq Hariri, Prime Minister of […]


Call to include Joyo’s works in textbooks

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HYDERABAD: Intellectuals, writers and poets have declared noted scholar and translator, Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo a great critic and a man of letters of the 20th and 21st century and demanded his writings be made part of textbooks to enable the youth to benefit from them. They were speaking at a conference on ‘Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo, […]


Telecom policy goals explained

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ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rahman has said that telecommunication infrastructure of Pakistan provides supportive environment for sustainable growth. While presenting policy statement at the World Summit on Information Technology Forum 2015 in Geneva, Ms Rahman said the goals of the telecommunication sector policy to enable socio-economic growth were aligned with Post-2015 […]


PTV producer Farkhanda Shamim awarded gold medal

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Idara-e-Faroogh-e-Taleem has awarded gold medal to PTV producer documentaries and reporter, Farkhanda Shamim on account of her excellent news reports and documentaries on Pakistan Movement from 1930 to 1947. The 13th award giving ceremony of the Idara-e-Faroogh-e-Taleem was held at Government College for Women Gulberg for those who had played significant role for the promotion […]


Strengthening ties: Pakistan, Belarus to exchange media delegations

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ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Affairs Ifran Siddiqi said on Wednesday that exchange of media delegations between Pakistan and Belarus can help bring masses of the two countries closer and create awareness about each other’s cultures. He was talking to Republic of Belarus Information Minister Ananich Lilia who called on him at […]