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Daily Archives: December 11, 2015

Notices issued in Pemra chief’s appointment case

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notices to the federal government and the ministry of information on a petition challenging appointment of Absar Alam as chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). At the outset of the hearing, petitioner’s counsel Azhar Siddique argued that the appointment of the respondent chairman was […]


Human Rights Day: ‘Rape survivors are assaulted a second time when they seek justice’

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KARACHI: A rape survivor is invariably assaulted for the second time when she steps out from her home to get justice, said an advocate fighting for such cases. “A survivor is raped a second time when she is questioned by the police. At every stage, she suffers and is not taken seriously,” said lawyer Asiya […]


Call to end human rights violations in Pakistan

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Karachi: Political parties’ representatives, civil society organisations and associations of human, women and labour rights, on Thursday, called for the need to conceive measures to end human rights excesses, rampant in Pakistan against minorities, women and other vulnerable sections of the society. The exhortations were made during a seminar, ‘A call for re-engineering the public […]


HEC CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO FUND UP 125 FULBRIGHT PHD SCHOLARSHIPS

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Islamabad—Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Prof Dr Mukhtar Ahmed Thursday announced plans to fund up to 125 additional scholarships for Pakistani PhD students to study in the United States through Fulbright Program over the next five years. It was decided in a meeting hosted by Chairman HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmed in honour of U.S Deputy […]


Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan hit hard by climate change

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As the final text for the Paris Agreement is pored over by the ministers in the high-level negotiation rooms, the side events are going strong with just two days remaining before the UN Climate Change Conference winds up. On Thursday evening, a non-governmental organisation called Ciqam from Chitral and Hunza gave a presentation on “Women […]


CJ asked to constitute larger bench for case on houbara bustard hunting ban

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ISLAMABAD: Threat to vulnerable bird ‘houbara bustard’ from hunters, especially by foreign dignitaries, is serious enough for a larger bench of the Supreme Court to consider. On Thursday a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar referred the review petitions by federal, the Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan governments and by a number […]


Journalist dies in road accident

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KARACHI: Anwar Sami, a cartoonist who remained associated with several newspapers, including Dawn, Jang and Morning News, died in a road accident in Gulshan-i-Maymar area on Thursday. He was 77. According to family sources, he is survived by his wife and four sons. He was on a routine evening walk near his residence when he […]


NA passes bill against abuse of minors

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ISLAMABAD – The National Assembly Thursday passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2015 aimed at protecting children from cruel treatment. The salient features if the proposed Act included the minimum age of criminal responsibility has been raised from seven to 10 years and the upper age limit from 12-14 years, protection of children from cruel […]


Rallies, seminars in Sindh to highlight human rights violations

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HYDERABAD: Civil society organisations and nationalist parties in parts of Sindh held various programmes to mark the International Human Rights Day on Thursday. In Hyderabad, rights activists took out a procession under the banner of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Hyderabad special task force. Carrying banners and placards, and shouting slogans in favour […]


Health care: a basic human right or plain good luck?

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KARACHI: “A poster, a simple, arresting image combined by a powerful piece of text, can be a force for change,” believes Poster For Tomorrow, a community of artists who came together in 2009 to make visual displays, in specific posters, a primary medium of activism. In 2015 a basic human right was once again selected […]