SWABI, April 5: The district government has allocated Rs14.7 million for a sport complex and a cinema hall for women. Sources told Dawn on Thursday that work on the two projects would be started in the current year. They said that Rs12.5 million had been allocated for the construction of sport complex which was a […]
KARACHI,At least one woman was murdered every day in Sindh during the first quarter of the current year and three men killed each day form January to March, while every second day a woman falls pray to karo-kari across the province, says a report compiled by Aurat Foundation, a non-governmental organisation. As many as 262 […]
KARACHI,A child rights group condemning the murder of a 17-year-old girl in Dadu urged the authorities concerned to immediately intervene into the matter and ensure speedy justice to the aggrieved family. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Regional Manager of the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, Sindh, Akhtar Hussain Baloch, […]
KARACHI: A Human Rights Cell (HRC) has been established in the Central Police Office in order to implement the Human Rights and Gender Sensitisation Policy. In this regard, a formal order was issued by IGP Sindh Jahangir Mirza on Thursday. The HRC would work under the Additional IGP Investigation, Sindh. The composition of the HRC […]
ISLAMABAD, May 3: Journalists across the country observed the International Press Freedom Day on Thursday. They held demonstrations and criticised the steps taken by the government to suppress the media. In Islamabad, a large demonstration was organised by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists. They eulogised the services of […]
A ten-year-old boy, Saddam Hussain, has been declared Karo after being found in the bushes with a five-year-old while he was on his way to a forest near his village in Rohri district Sukkur. The local jirga accused both minors of Karo-kari while the boy was sternly beaten by the girl’s father. According to a […]
KARACHI, May 3: Thirteen-year-old Nasreen, hailing from a small village of Punjab and now living in a shelter home here, has experienced far more harsh realities of life than girls her age generally do. “Three years ago my father, Rana Bashir, married me off to an old man, Mohammad Shafee, in return for Rs60,000. I […]
PESHAWAR: The International Federation of Journalists — the world’s largest organisation of journalists and an affiliate body of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists — has called on the government to urgently take “action to overturn the dangerous climate for journalists”. To address the “sickening crisis” facing the Pakistani media, the IFJ released a report, […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday reiterated its desire to enhance news exchange and media interaction with Islamic countries, especially Malaysia and Brunei. While briefing a seven-member media delegation from Malaysia and Brunei, Ahsan Yousuf Khan, additional secretary of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, said Pakistan attached great importance to its media relations with Muslim countries and […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) in its meeting here Thursday decided to grant three more satellite TV licences including the first ever private satellite TV licence for Balochistan besides “Duniya TV” and “Prime TV”, says a press release. With this addition the number of Pakistani licensed private TV channels would grow to 22. […]
LAHORE, May 3: A cellphone company continues to provide television connections on mobile phones despite a notice served by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority not to do so. Telenor launched TV mobile service late last month without obtaining a licence from Pemra. “Pemra has issued a notice to Telenor, seeking explanation about its mobile […]
SKARDU, April 4: A local court has indicted the editor and publisher of a Skardu-based monthly magazine in a sedition case. Sessions Judge Yar Mohammad observed that by publishing an article in the March 2004 issue of the monthly magazine Kargil International criticizing President Musharraf’s policies with regard to US-led war on terror, Kashmir and […]
HYDERABAD: The Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Sindh, has developed a Unicode email system under the Sindhi language word processor. In an announcement, IIT professor Dr Imdad Ismaili has said the Unicode system had undergone successful tests on different websites. He the new Unicode system is also helping in composing the Sindhi language. […]
ISLAMABAD (May 04 2007): The Opposition and Treasury benches on Thursday paid tributes to print and electronic media people for their courageous role in highlighting the issues confronting the nation. Both sides urged the government to work for solution of financial problems of the journalists community by implementing the 7th Wage Board Award. The government […]
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