ISLAMABAD – Pakistan hopes to enact two federal laws this year to boost its fight against human trafficking and avoid possible downgrading on a US Trafficking in Persons report and consequent funding restrictions, a senior interior ministry official said yesterday. The Ministry of Interior is working on two draft laws, the Bill to Prevent and […]
KARACHI: The number of broadband subscriptions in the country surpassed 25 million for the first time as cellular service providers sold more than one-and-a-half million high-speed mobile internet connections in December 2015, according to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The number of mobile broadband connections in the country increased to 26.3 million at the end of […]
ISLAMABAD – Microsoft (MS) on Monday announced its plans to open a new training and development centre in Pakistan which will significantly expand the company’s investment in the country and will bring more opportunities for local companies and professionals. This was disclosed by GM Microsoft North Africa, East Mediterranean and Pakistan (NEPA) Leila Serhan during […]
Well known PTV drama / documentary producer, poet, columnist and left leaning writer Muhammad Azeem died of heart failure at the age of 70 years here on Monday. He left behind a widow, two sons and two daughters. His Namaz-e-Janaza will be held at Masjid-e-Safari Villas, Baharia Town at 10 am today. Muhammad Azeem did […]
ON Jan 12, 2016, Google launched localised versions of YouTube in three countries. Pakistan was one of them. On Jan 18, PTA issued a directive to internet service providers to lift the ban on YouTube. This brought the over three-year ban to an end. On the subject of localisation, when in 2013 the Lahore High […]
Working from dawn to dusk has become routine for 11-year-old Sidra Khan. Even though she should not be working under law, Sidra has been toiling away at a brick kiln near Islamabad for several years now. Her parents and other siblings are also employed by owner of the kiln in Tarnol. “We make about 1,000 […]
ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry on Monday announced the launch of a ‘modern’ website for the long-dysfunctional National Counter-Terrorism Authority (Nacta), but a visit to the website shows that it contains almost none of the vital information that it should contain regarding counterterrorism activities. The official announcement said the website had been made fully functional on […]
LAHORE: Two men were arrested from a printing press by intelligence agencies for printing literature of a banned militant organization on Monday. The agencies also found more than 100,000 copies of Jihadist literature containing training material for suicide attackers. An official source told Dawn that the raid was conducted after the arrest of a `high […]
LARKANA: Speakers at a seminar have stressed the need to implement different laws passed on women rights so as to protect them from domestic violence and also demanded the establishment of women committees at the district level for the cause. They were addressing a seminar on Violence Against Women organised by the Civil Society Support […]
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