KARACHI: City Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil has directed the Union Council (UC) Nazims to arrange an appropriate place in their respective towns for lady councillors so that they could hear the grievances of women in their respective areas. She issued the directive while meeting the lady councillors at her office on Friday. These councillors said […]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Women Development suggested a seven to 10 years imprisonment in ‘Vani’ cases and called for making this crime a non-bailable and non-compoundable offence. The Senate committee, which met here on Tuesday at the Parliament House with Senator Tahira Latif in the chair to discuss and review the recommendations of […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: The Senate Standing Committee on Women Development has recommended the incorporation of material on women’s rights of inheritance into the national curricula from class VI. The committee headed by Tahira Latif at its recent meeting in the Parliament House discussed the recommendations made by its sub-committee on laws of inheritance and evil […]
GUJRANWALA – Provincial Minister for Social Welfare Zille Huma Usman was assassinated on Tuesday noon soon after her arrival at PML House Gujranwala to hear complaints of the people in an open kutchery. She was removed to DHQ hospital from where she was shifted to General Hospital Lahore where she succumbed to injuries. The killer […]
KARACHI: The first Shah Latif excellence award ceremony will be held in the middle of March to honour writers and poets of Sindh. The selected names for these awards have also been finalised. This was stated by the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Social Welfare, Rauf Siddiqi, during a press conference at his office on […]
GUJRANWALA – Provincial Minister for Social Welfare Zille Huma Usman was assassinated on Tuesday noon soon after her arrival at PML House Gujranwala to hear complaints of the people in an open kutchery. She was removed to DHQ hospital from where she was shifted to General Hospital Lahore where she succumbed to injuries. The killer […]
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad district council session here on Tuesday saw anger and protest from the members over a letter of the district coordination officer (DCO) claiming that the Sindh Local Government Ordinance (SLGO) says the presence of officials in every session is not required. The members raised objections to the letter written in reply to […]
KARACHI, Feb 20: Senior journalist M.H. Riaz died in London last week. He was in his early 80s. He has left behind his wife, three daughters and a son. Mr Riaz, who hailed from Raipur, India, was married to a daughter of the owner of “The Lateefi Press” of Delhi from where the daily Dawn […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and the leading vendors of computer hardware are taking their disÂagreement with the finance ministry over imposition of 15 per cent General Sales Tax (GST) to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Representatives of IT enabled industry along with top IT ministry’s PSEB officials may soon get a hearing […]
SUKKUR: Spiraling honour killings and raging tribal feuds continue to plague the peace of upper Sindh despite legislation by parliament to put an end to ages-old patriarchal customs and give the woman her due status in society. Three people were killed and several injured in “honour”-related crimes and tribal clashes in different parts of the […]
TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 21: A divorced woman and one of her would-be kidnappers were killed in an exchange of fire between the suspects and the victim’s brother at Rajana on Tuesday night. Reports said three people reached the house of a retired police sub-inspector Chaudhry Muhammad Siddiq in Madina Colony and attempted to kidnap […]
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