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Daily Archives: December 5, 2015

Deportees’ rights should be protected, says Nisar

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Islamabad – Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has stressed the need for protecting the basic human rights of Pakistani deportees from European countries. He was talking to German Ambassador in Pakistan Ina Lepel at the Punjab House on Friday. Pakistan-German relations, bilateral cooperation, the Pak-EU agreement on readmission of migrants, a new policy for […]


International Day of Persons with Disabilities marked

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Lahore – A function was held to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities under the aegis of Ghazali Education Trust (GET) and LABARD here the other day, says a press release. Apart from the special children studying in the Trust schools established in rural areas, the special children and the community from the […]


Journalists to protest lack of security for media houses

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Islamabad – As many as four committees have been set up to make effective contacts with political parties, civil society organisations, trade unions and journalist organisations to ensure all out participation in protest sit-ins of the journalists in front of national and all provincial assemblies on December 8 against non-provision of security to the media […]


Asking for rights: HRCP holds National Labour Conference

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Karachi – Economists and rights activists got together on Friday at the National Labour Conference held by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) with the aim to spread awareness regarding problems of union labours. Giving an introduction to the audience about the labour rights, HRCP chairperson Zohra Yusuf said that everyone should realise the worth […]


Undeterred by Climate Summit, Pakistan embraces coal

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Karachi – Last few weeks have been monumental for Pakistan’s energy landscape. The country has moved closer to unlocking millions of tons of lignite buried in its desert and land has been bought near the port to build facilities to store the fossil fuel and build power plants based on imported coal. Also, executives have […]


Pemra chief puts off DTH licence bidding

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Islamabad – Presiding over his first meeting here on Friday after assuming charge as chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Absar Alam expressed support for freedom of expression and speech enshrined in Article 19 of the Constitution. Mr Alam decided to delay bidding for the direct-to-home (DTH) television distribution licences which involves […]