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Daily Archives: June 22, 2015

Bid to improve health facilities with partner NGOs suffers from red tape

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KARACHI: An ambitious project to improve ailing health facilities and better the aggravating health delivery system in Sindh is still waiting to be formally launched despite a lapse of three months since approval. The provincial government had signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with selected non-governmental organisations at Chief Minister House in March with the […]


Humera Arshad’sNa’at album launch next week

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LAHORE: The Lahore Arts Council will hold the launching ceremony of singer HumeraArshad’s new Na’at video album next week. LAC Executive Director Atta Muhammad Khan told Dawn that a big screen would also be installed on the lawn where the video album would be screened along with the hall. A number of personalities are expected […]


RIGHT TO INFORMATION

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“Article 19-A has empowered the citizens of Pakistan by making access to information a justiceable right of the People rather than being largesse bestowed by the State at its whim.”………… All State functionaries have to understand that in a very real sense, they are employed in the service of the People of Pakistan and are […]


Journalist Wahid Bashir passes away

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KARACHI: Wahid Bashir, a revered trade unionist and veteran journalist, famous for being a member of a group of a dozen students who were expelled from Karachi for spearheading the 1962 student movement, passed away on Sunday after protracted cardiac ailments. Born in Hyderabad, India, in 1928, Mr Bashir studied in a school there and […]


Call to implement SC verdict on minorities’ rights

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LARKANA: Speakers at a consultative programme have urged the government to implement last year’s landmark judgement of the Supreme Court that outlines a strategy on how to protect the non-Muslims communities’ rights. The programme was organised by the Civil Society Support Programme (CSSP) in collaboration with the Rights of Expression, Assembly, Association and Thought (REAT) […]


Project aims to promote biodiversity conservation

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ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change is implementing a project to promote conservation of biodiversity and strengthen existing conservation efforts by using an innovative market-based mechanism, according to official sources. The project called “Mountains and market biodiversity and business in northern Pakistan” aims to develop community and institutional capacity for certified production of biodiversity-friendly and […]