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HRCP demands probe into killings of MQM workers

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LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has noted with serious concern that while the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) continues to voice concerns about abduction, torture and extra-judicial killings of its workers, steps have not been taken to investigate the charges. In a statement on Monday, HRCP Chairperson Zohra Yusuf said: “The commission has […]


76th death anniversary of Allama Iqbal today

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SIALKOT : The 76th death anniversary of poet-philosopher Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal will be observed across the country here on Monday (today) to pay tribute to his services for floating the idea of a separate homeland for the Muslims of subcontinent. Allama Iqbal was born in Sialkot on November 9, 1877 and died on April […]


Two years on, civil society remembers Abeda Iqbal Azad

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KARACHI: The fans and admirers of Abeda Iqbal Azad will mark the second death anniversary of the celebrated poet, journalist and short-story writer. Several literary organisations have planned Quran Khwani and reference meetings to commemorate the day. Azad breathed her last on April 20, 2012, and her untimely death cut short her career, which was […]


HRCP seminar makes students think about how to end conflict

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KARACHI: Aqsa Naseer wants peace in her city and country. She wants the citizens of Pakistan to get their priorities right and give education the value it needs. Naseer was one of the students attending ‘Children for Peace and Communal Harmony’, a seminar organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and AGHS Legal […]


FO rejects UK criticism on rights

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ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office sharply reacted on Thursday to Britain’s ‘Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report’ that marked Pakistan as a country of concern and rejected the criticism as unacceptable. “Protecting the rights of Pakistanis is our responsibility and no-one can be more concerned about the rights of Pakistani citizens than Pakistani state itself. We, […]


Canada asks Pakistan to protect minorities

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ISLAMABAD: Canada stepped in this week to tell the Nawaz Sharif government that it should take “swift” and “unerring” steps to ensure that terrorists cease attacks on Pakistan’s religious and ethnic communities. It is no secret that of late every province in the country has seen a rise in these unjustified attacks on Pakistani citizens […]


Ajmal Husain remembered

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Last week, renowned artist Ajmal Husain, the son of a former editor of Dawn Altaf Husain, passed away in Karachi. He started his career as Dawn’s political cartoonist. He was the editor of The Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan in the 1950s. He also held the post of editor Sunday Magazine Dawn for a while. As […]


Entertainment tax not being collected from cinemas, PA told

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KARACHI: Entertainment duty is not being collected from the cinema houses in the city as most of them are in the cantonment board areas, outside the jurisdiction of the department, said Sindh excise and taxation minister Mukesh Chawla on Tuesday. He was responding to a question by Pakistan Muslim League-Functional legislator Nusrat Sehar Abbasi during […]


Islamabad Literature Festival coming to town

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ISLAMABAD: Over a 100 writers and academics from Pakistan and abroad will be participating in the second Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF), scheduled to begin on April 25. Announcing the highlights of the programme for the three-day eventat a press conference on Tuesday, Oxford University Press (OUP) Managing Director Ameena Saiyid said 110 Pakistani and eight […]


Commercialism threatens Manto’s mansion

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By: Ali Usman LAHORE: His pen created masterpieces that changed the face of Urdu literature. Many of the thoughts that must have brewed in his mind in the last seven years of his life were here, in this modest house a few hundred yards off Mall road in the neighbourhood of Lakshmi Mansion. This is […]


IFJ and PFUJ workshop for journalists

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KARACHI: A training workshop for journalists organised jointly by International Federation for Journalists (IFJ) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) started on Sunday. The IFJ acting director Jain Warthintun and Ujal Achar will conduct the 4-day workshop. There will be special sessions on media monitoring, advocacy and women on the first day of the […]


Children’s magazine editor shot dead in robbery bid

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KARACHI: An educationist and editor of a children’s magazine, Shamoon Qaiser, was shot dead by robbers on Saturday night after he had withdrawn money from an automated teller machine (ATM) at Nagan Chowrangi. The 30-year-old victim, who had married only a year ago, had reportedly resisted the robbery bid outside the ATM booth at a […]


HRCP calls for release of labourers

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LAHORE: The HRCP has called for the release of three labourers and two Coast Guard personnel believed to be in custody of an insurgent group in Balochistan. In a statement issued here on Friday, the commission said that Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) had two Coast Guard personnel and three labourers in their custody. The commission […]


HRCP slams threats

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LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has voiced serious concern over threats to a senior lawyer representing a blasphemy accused inside a courtroom in the Multan Central Prison. In a statement issued on Thursday, the commission said it was extremely concerned about threats given to lawyers defending a blasphemy accused in court. His […]