SWABI – Senate Chairman Muhammadian Soomro has said that we should encourage females to join engineering profession because they have the capabilities to arm themselves with its different disciplines and play their constructive role in the nation-building process. He was addressing the concluding ceremony of International Parliamentary Debates at Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of […]
PESHAWAR (February 14 2007): The broader Action Committee of Khyber Union of Journalists, Peshawar Press Club, political parties, religious groups, trader bodies and civil society organisations unveiled the protest plans to secure a safe release of senior journalist Sohail Qalandar and his friend Niaz Mohammad. Making the decisions public at the Press club, the committee […]
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority ISLAMABAD: The government will continue to maintain its policy of freedom of expression, said President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday. “The government will continue to pursue its policy of providing electronic and print media the maximum freedom,” he said, while presiding over a meeting of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory […]
Sub heading-Speaker sends bill to Select Committee ISLAMABAD – Although marred by the lack of quorum during the initial half an hour, the National Assembly added another bill to an already huge pile of legislative business to be disposed by it during last parliamentary year. Ch Shujat Hussain introduced the Prevention of AntiÂWomen Practices Bill, […]
PESHAWAR, Feb 13: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday disposed of two habeas corpus petitions about ‘disappearance’ of four people after the government claimed that they had not been detained by any intelligence agency. A bench comprising Justice Ijaz Afzal and Justice Jehanzeb Raheem observed that the petitioners could file fresh petitions if they could […]
Sub heading-Speaker sends bill to Select Committee ISLAMABAD – Although marred by the lack of quorum during the initial half an hour, the National Assembly added another bill to an already huge pile of legislative business to be disposed by it during last parliamentary year. Ch Shujat Hussain introduced the Prevention of AntiÂWomen Practices Bill, […]
PESHAWAR (February 14 2007): The broader Action Committee of Khyber Union of Journalists, Peshawar Press Club, political parties, religious groups, trader bodies and civil society organisations unveiled the protest plans to secure a safe release of senior journalist Sohail Qalandar and his friend Niaz Mohammad. Making the decisions public at the Press club, the committee […]
KARACHI: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal paid rich tributes to the newsmen who had given coverage to all the mega-development projects, particularly the signal-free corridor in Karachi, which, he said, had “turned the development history around”. He said this while addressing a luncheon meeting in honour of journalists at a local hotel on Tuesday. Mustafa […]
KARACHI: The process of registration for the induction of women as captains in the Pakistan Army’s corps of electrical and mechanical engineers, ordinance corps and law branch, has commenced, stated an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release. After the completion of registration, a written test as well as a personality assessment and intelligence test would […]
Acid-throwing case KARACHI: A young girl named Sakina Solangi, who received serious burn injuries after acid was thrown at her, was to be shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi Tuesday. She received severe burn injuries on 45 percent of her body, including an ear, after a man she had refused to marry threw acid at her. […]
KHAIRPUR: A newly married woman committed suicide by taking pesticide in the Ahmedpur police limits here on Tuesday, police said. Police reports said that Zubaida, 19, wife of Allah Rakhyo Panhyar, committed suicide in the Ghullan Panhyar village. The Ahmedpur police shifted her body to Taluka Hospital Kingri for an autopsy. However, no postmortem was […]
ISLAMABAD: Despite government claim of empowering women after the enactment of Women Protection Act, their share in major occupation groups amongst employed person is less than 20 per cent compared with men all over Pakistan. According to the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2005-06, men dominate major occupations with 80.52 per cent share against women’s […]
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