FOR decades it has been known that the drinking water of large populations across South Asia contains dangerous levels of arsenic, but now a new study has established that even in Pakistan the number of people exposed could be as high as 60m. Arsenic is a naturally occurring element, but many deeper aquifers are free […]
Usman Riaz is in the midst of assembling the core team of Mano Animation Studios in one room as we meet on a warm summer afternoon for this interview. The prodigious Usman is founder of Mano Animation Studios and director of their first major project, The Glassworker. The film is Pakistan’s first fully hand drawn […]
KARACHI: With the aim to address the complaints of citizens, Sindh Inspector General of Police (IG) Allah Dino Khawaja inaugurated on Thursday the public complaint helpline 9110 at Central Police Office (CPO). Addressing a press conference at CPO, Khawaja, flanked by Special Branch Additional IG Dr Waliullah Dal and other senior police officers, said the helpline […]
The human rights picture nationally is fragmented, rarely clear and the protection offered by a variety of pieces of legislation partial at best and absent at worst. The federal ministry of human rights is now saying that some steps forward in the protection of human rights have been taken, but the gathering of any data […]
Citizens can now directly lodge complaints against cops with the provincial police chief on the newly-inaugurated helpline service, 9110, that would function alongside the complaint centre operational at the Central Police Office (CPO). Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the ‘Sindh IG Helpline 9110’ on Thursday, IGP A D Khowaja said the purpose of the […]
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on August 24, ordered the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to prevent the broadcasting and publishing of ‘anti-judiciary’ speeches of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif and other leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party. LHC Justice Mamnoon Rasheed Sheikh, hearing a contempt of court petition issued notices to Pemra […]
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