This is with reference to the news report published in Dawn (January 26) on page 21 titled ‘Ex Minister deplores lack of access to information’. Referring to my response to a question about the role of women in public life, the report attributes the following words to me: “He said that people could disagree with […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights has sought reports over an alleged gang rape incident in Sindh and the murder of a couple in Punjab. The human rights wing of the Law Ministry would provide the reports to the committee. The committee met to discuss reports on adulteration, violation […]
LARKANA, Feb 2: A 13-year-old schoolgirl belonging to the Mehar taluka of Dadu has accused four people of abducting and raping her. The girl, Kainat Soomro, and members of her family told reporters outside the Larkana Press Club on Friday that police were reluctant to arrest the culprits who, they alleged, were being supported by […]
KARACHI, Feb 2: An organisation working for child rights on Friday expressed concern over the increasing trade of underage girls by the ‘loan sharks’ in the interior parts of Sindh.“Many families have suffered and lost their children to these interest-traders, in addition to their houses, lands, cattle-farms, shops and other holdings,” Akhtar Hussain Baloch, regional […]
PESHAWAR (February 03 2007): The civil society organisations staged a protest here on Friday to resent the government’s failure to recover Daily Express Resident Editor Sohail Qalander and his friend Niaz Mohammad who were kidnapped from Peshawar on January 2, 2007. The demonstration was organised by the Alliance for Protection of Human Rights (APHR), a […]
RAWALPINDI: The government has offered to facilitate a visit by foreign media representatives to tribal areas so as to reach Taliban-sponsored tribal and Pakhtoon leader Baitullah Mahsood to ascertain ground realities. The offer came from President General Pervez Musharraf at a news conference here on Friday while responding to a question by a foreign journalist […]
ISLAMABAD – Parliamentarians belonging to the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) have invited the attention of Speaker National Assembly towards the alleged physical assault by intelligence officials of Carlotta Call, a representative of Herald Tribune,in Quetta. The magazine claimed that the journalist was manhandled by the intelligence officials and kept for five hours along […]
KARACHI, Feb 2: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has revived the Larkana Development Authority and the Sehwan Development Authority. The governor has promulgated the “Revival and Amendment of Development Authorities Laws Ordinance 2007,” reviving both the authorities. They will be headed by the executive district officers (revenue) instead of commissioners and deputy commissioner, and their […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Finance Department has taken note of indifferent attitude of officials toward audit reports and their apathy to reminders issued from the department asking them to expedite compliance of audit objections. Finance department officials said that the ‘most disobedient departments’ include forest and wildlife, fisheries, agriculture, health, works and power and irrigation departments. […]
SUKKUR: District Nazim Sukkur Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Taluka Nazim Sukkur city Muhammad Naeem Siddiqui said on Friday that second phase of the beautification of Lab-e-Mehran and a drainage scheme for the wholesale vegetable and fruit market and its enhancement had been started. Addressing a joint press conference here on Friday, they said that […]
ISLAMABAD – Parliamentarians belonging to the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) have invited the attention of Speaker National Assembly towards the alleged physical assault by intelligence officials of Carlotta Call, a representative of Herald Tribune,in Quetta. The magazine claimed that the journalist was manhandled by the intelligence officials and kept for five hours along […]
PESHAWAR (February 03 2007): The civil society organisations staged a protest here on Friday to resent the government’s failure to recover Daily Express Resident Editor Sohail Qalander and his friend Niaz Mohammad who were kidnapped from Peshawar on January 2, 2007. The demonstration was organised by the Alliance for Protection of Human Rights (APHR), a […]
KHAIRPUR, Feb 2: Seven people were arrested in Gul Mohanunad Shaikh village and adjoining areas on Friday for their alleged involvement in holding a jirga which had declared two women as karis. Gambat police SHO Iqbal Jumani registered an FIR under section 310A, 201, 149 PPC on Thursday night against Gulzar, Qalandar Bux, Atta Mohammad, […]
KARACHI, Feb 2: Several IT firms have shown their interest in making investments in the province and the Sindh government is likely to ink memorandums of understanding with some of these companies as their representatives are scheduled to visit the city next week. This was stated by Sindh IT Adviser Noman Saigol here on Friday […]
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