ISLAMABAD: The apex court has received a petition, seeking its direction to constitute the National Commission for Human Rights as envisaged by Section 3 of the National Commission for Human Rights Act, 2012. A human rights activist, Julius Salik, moved the constitutional petition through his counsel, Raheel Kamran Sheikh, under Article 184 (3) of the […]
LAHORE: A car being driven by a senior journalist was hit from the rear by a double-cabin police vehicle on Zahoor Elahi Road on Saturday. The car was damaged but the journalist remained safe. The accident occurred when the double-cabin (LED 4532) carrying armed policemen escorting a private car tried to overtake the journalist’s car […]
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a minorities convention appealed to the federal government to establish a ministry for minority, induct Hindu people into law enforcement agencies, protect their temples and graveyards, make a law on forced conversions, pass the marriage bill and take other measures. They said that if there was federal minority ministry, it would protect […]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan needs to overhaul laws to ban forced conversions which are leading to rape or other abuse against hundreds of non-Muslim girls each year, an advocacy group said Wednesday. The Movement for Solidarity and Peace, which campaigns against religious violence in Pakistan, said that forced conversions generally involve the abductions of girls or young […]
LAHORE: Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker – but a knack for languages and love for books have made him one of the country’s most innovative Urdu novelists. Writing mainly historical fiction with a prose described as vivid and forceful, critics say that Columeau, now 41, […]
ISLAMABAD: The resolution regarding the protection of minorities was on top of the agenda in Wednesday’s meeting of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). All members of the CII agreed that the government should ensure security of minorities. They reiterated that they will ensure the protection of minorities’ rights by setting guidelines in the coming […]
KARACHI: Over 27 incidents of desecration of temples and holy books of religious minorities in the past six months have been causing insecurity among them, a conference on minority rights was informed on Wednesday. At the programme, organised by South Asia Partnership, speakers said that Pakistan had signed International Convention on Civil and Political Rights […]
SUKKUR: If people are forced to convert or marry then it creates a different situation as that is not allowed in any religion or by the law, said advocate Mukesh Kumar Karira while speaking at a workshop organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in Sukkur on Thursday. While discussing forced conversions and […]
ISLAMABAD: A two-day special session of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) opened on Tuesday with discussions focusing on the proposed Hindus and Christians’ marriage bills. The advisory body also sought the draft bill – prepared for the marriage of non-Muslims – from the Law and justice ministry. “Islam is not a hurdle in the […]
KARACHI: A fairly large number of people belonging to various rights groups, professional organisations and political parties gathered outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday and held a demonstration against the assassination of Rashid Rehman, a lawyers and human rights activist, who was recently killed in an ambush in Multan. “We salute martyr Rashid Rehman,” […]
TNS caught up with Wusatullah Khan at BBC’s Karachi office to which he has been associated since 1991 at its Urdu Service section, and asked him if he saw any hope of turning around the narrative of intolerance that seems to be weighing us down. Khan has been writing a weekly column Baat se Baat […]
QUETTA: Members of the Balochistan Assembly from treasury and opposition benches called upon the government on Saturday to declare the parts of the province recently battered by heavy rains and flooding as calamity-hit areas, saying the rainfall had caused heavy losses. Speaking on the issue during a session of the assembly, Chief Minister Dr Abdul […]
Rashid Rehman’s brutal killing — for doing his duty as a lawyer — must be viewed along with the (similar) assassinations of Justice (R) Arif Iqbal Bhatti, Governor Salmaan Taseer, and federal minister Shahbaz Bhatti. A judge, leading members of government, and now a defence counsel have been killed for trying to ensure that no […]
KARACHI: It has increasingly become an unreasonable request that literary functions in the city be held on time. This was clearly evident at the launch of Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui’s audio CD titled Sachey Sha’er ka Khaliyaan at the Arts Council on Thursday, as the event started almost two hours behind the schedule. Presided […]
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