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Daily Archives: July 18, 2017

IoBM founder Shahjehan Syed Karim passes away at 84

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KARACHI: Institute of Business Management (IoBM) founder Shahjehan Syed Karim, who once served as the Sindh chief secretary and Pakistan Television chairperson, passed away at a local hospital on Sunday at the age of 84. According to family members, the former bureaucrat had been suffering from multiple diseases and had been admitted in the hospital for […]


Children at greatest risk of infections

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Rawalpindi: Almost all public and private sector healthcare facilities in town have started receiving significant influx of child patients with gastroenteritis, diarrhoea and other monsoon related health threats though according to health experts, the situation at the time cannot be termed as an epidemic. Children are at the greatest risk of contracting gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, cholera […]


OIC condemns HR abuses in Held Kashmir

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MIRPUR (AJK) – AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan returned home Sunday after attending the OIC contact group on Kashmir meeting in Ivory Coast and a brief visit to Dubai. He was received at Islamabad International Airport by a large number of workers and supporters of the PML-N. Talking to the PML workers, the […]


JOURNALIST COMMUNITY PLAYING VITAL ROLE IN STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY: BILAWAL

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Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that journalist community is playing a vital role in the strengthening of democracy. Addressing an event at National Press Club in Islamabad on Monday, he said that the community has rendered sacrifices for the purpose. The Chairman PPP said that effective legislation should be made for […]


Responding to Pakistan’s UN review: In conversation with Owais Aslam Ali and Matthew Redding

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The State of Pakistan was reviewed for the first time by the UN Human Rights Committee this week in Geneva. In preparation for the examination, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) together with IFEX, the global network defending and promoting the right to freedom of expression and information, and RIDH, the International Network of Human Rights, submitted an alternative report in advance […]