LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan is deeply grieved at the killing of its Multan Task Force Coordinator, advocate Rashid Rahman. Rashid was a committed rights activist and lawyer and had been associated with HRCP for over 20 years. It must be recalled that on April 10, through a statement, the commission had brought […]
LONDON: A new online investigative research report has called on the Pakistani authorities to strictly enforce existing bans on militant sectarian organisations and ensure that the bans apply to any changes of identity that these groups adopt, including bringing to justice those responsible for attacks against Pakistani Shias who face sectarian attacks on daily basis. […]
Friday, May 09, 2014 – Mass media in Pakistan has come a long way. From the early days of state controlled media, the Pakistani media has started to establish its utility and is well on its way to achieve a more meaningful and free status. Steffen Cohen in his book ‘The idea of Pakistan’ has […]
KARACHI: There are four criminal cases against Aftab Virk Advocate, who approached Additional and Sessions Judge Lahore Ghulam Abbas Sail to file case against the administration of Jang and Geo. Aftab Virk belongs to Noorpur Dakka, village of Sadhpura and all the four cases have been filed against him in this district.The first case of […]
LONDON: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s London chapter has distanced itself from a man posing as “senior advisor to chairman Imran Khan on foreign trade, investment & development from Europe in KPK”. PTI’s newly elected body in London led by Asim Khan on Wednesday said that the elected body had nothing to do with a scandalous news spread […]
Karachi: “Female journalists continue to face an ongoing dilemma: how to combine masculine traits — being aggressive, self-reliant, curious, tough and ambitious — with feminine traits of being compassionate, caring, loving and maternal so she can compete with her male counterparts, but maintain the characteristics society expects from her,” writes Joe Saltzman in his essay […]
MULTAN: Senior lawyer Rashid Rehman Khan, Special Task Force Coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, was killed and two other people were injured in an attack at the HRCP office near Kutchery Chowk on Wednesday night. Mr Khan was in the office along with a colleague, Advocate Nadeem Parvaz, and assistant Afzal Hussain […]
HYDERABAD: Business Recorder reporter Qaseem Qureshi was robbed by two unknown armed persons here in the jurisdiction of Latifabad A-Section Police Station on Tuesday night. Qureshi along with his friend Yasir was returning home last night. As he reached near his residence, two armed men who were on motorbike intercepted them on gun point. They […]
KARACHI: To celebrate World Red Cross Red Crescent Day, Pakistan Red Crescent Society (Sindh branch) is holding a training programme on first aid at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday (today). The training institute of the society will select 30 journalists who will attend a three-day course in October. The News
A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for the benefit of the nation. But the media itself has become the national enigma. At the same time, other major institutions are faltering and seem […]
GILGIT: A delegation comprising senators intending to probe human rights issues in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) kicked off its three-day discussion in Gilgit on Monday. The nine-member committee is being led by Senator Afrasiab Khattak while senators Farhatullah Babar, Mushahid Hussain, Nasreen Jalil, Talha Mahmood and Zahid Khan are also part of the delegation among others. The […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued notices to the federation, establishment secretary and law and justice secretary on a plea calling for declaring Urdu as the official language of the country. A single-member bench of the IHC, of Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi, resumed hearing of a plea filed by Akram Chaudhry for […]
LAHORE: Zohra Yusuf was re-elected chairperson and Kamran Arif advocate co-chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) here on Sunday. They were re-elected for 2014-16 in the election held in the commission’s annual general meeting. The vice-chairpersons elected are: Tahir Husain Khan advocate (Balochistan), Sher Mohammad Khan advocate (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Nazish Ataullah (Punjab) […]
Gwadar, on Thursday, became the unlikely launching pad for some glad tidings for the nation. At one level, we had a visual message. There they were, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Chief of the Army Staff Raheel Sharif sitting, metaphorically, on the same table. And this civil-military camaraderie, coming in the wake of some […]
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