KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has expressed strong concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the country, especially in the Punjab, where various incidents of targeting the media-men by criminal elements have been reported. A press release of the APNS issued here on Friday said the APNS Secretary General, Kazi Asad […]
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Local Government Katchi Abadies and Spatial Development Muhammad Hussain Khan said on Friday that a comprehensive road map has been formulated for the promotion of information technology sector. Through this, more than 130 IT awareness centres (ITAC) would be set up across the province. This, he said during his visit to […]
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Local Government and Katchi Abadis Mohammad Hussain said on Friday that a comprehensive roadmap had been formulated for promotion of information technology sector through which more than 130 IT awareness centres (ITAC) would be set up across the province. He was speaking during his visit to a web portal providing detailed […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers have ruled out the possibility of women recruits being inducted into combat force. A spokesman for the paramilitary outfit told this reporter that while his organisation has decided to recruit women in its ranks by the end of next year, they will be assigned different roles but not combat duty. Major-General […]
KARACHI: Speakers of a workshop asked the government to take necessary steps including giving more powers to women’s rights protection bodies, to safeguard women’s rights in the country. The workshop was organised by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) on ‘torture on women’ on Friday. Addressing the workshop, Justice (retd) Zahid Aslam Nasir said that a ‘full-time’ […]
KHAIRPUR: A man killed his wife and a relative in his house in Baharpur Mohalla of the Larkana city on Friday. According to reports reaching here from the Market Thana police station of Larkana, Turab Jatoi gunned down his wife Majeedan, 20, and her alleged paramour Mumtaz Jatoi. He later reached the police station, where […]
KARACHI – While scanning through the annals of history of the sub-continent, numerous cases of Karo Kari or honor killings have been reported. This is not a pre-historic practice. Acts such as these are unfortunately being practiced blatantly, even today, mostly in the Upper Sindh Region and its adjoining areas. Nowadays it is gaining momentum […]
JACOBABAD: About 57 men and women had been killed over the pretext of Karo-Kari, while 67 people lost their lives in different incidents in the district of Jacobabad during 2006, says a human rights watchdog report. The report was launched at a seminar on human rights at the Jacobabad press club on Friday. The report […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed its utter shock and grief over the barbaric violence of the Rawalpindi Police led by SP Yasin Farooq, SP Muhammad Azam, DSP Rana Shahid, against the protesting families of the missing people that made the front pages of the national press, on Friday. Ex-senator Iqbal Haider, […]
SUKKUR: Hundreds of people, including women and children, held a demonstration on Friday outside the Sukkur press club in protest against police failure to recover a kidnapped boy. The protesters belonging to Bachal Shah Miani area were led by Dhani Bux Chohan and Bachal Shah Miani union council Nazim Tariq Chohan.They gathered outside the press […]
Title Pakistani Zare-e-Ablagh Ka Haftroz Jaiza Vol 4 No 51 Date 12/29/2006 Download ppf newsletter vol 4 no 51.pdf
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani on Thursday assured the Senate Committee on Human Rights that the Press and Publication Regulatory Authority bill (PAPRA) would not be promulgated through an ordinance.”No law would be enacted without taking all the stakeholders into confidence and the draft of the PAPRA bill would […]
* One million child labourers in NWFP alone Staff Report PESHAWAR: Speakers at a conference on child protection have demanded that the government implement child rights laws.The conference was organised by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) at the Peshawar Garrison Club on Thursday.Labour Department Deputy Director Zahoor Ahmad […]
By Bakhtawar Mian ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Police broke up a protest demonstration organised by family members and relatives of missing persons, badly beating and arresting several of them after they tried to march to the GHQ to present a memorandum to the Vice-Chief of the Army Staff.More than a hundred people, mostly women and children […]
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