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Daily Archives: September 13, 2007

‘Pakistan lacks resources to eradicate human trafficking’

ISLAMABAD (September 13 2007): Pakistan lacks state of the art capabilities and enough resources to completely eradicate human trafficking, admits a top official but claimed efforts were underway to make things better. “A project to overcome the menace is being worked upon. Its absolute elimination, however, is not possible due to limited resources,” National Database […]


‘Caring serves better than caning children’

KARACHI – For the development of skill and behaviour among children, care can serve better than caning, said by the speakers of the one-day teachers training program on alternatives to corporal punishment. The training programme was titled as ‘Care is better than Caning’ and was held under the aegis of Society for the Protection of […]


Home is where the justice is

SIALKOT, Sept 12: “Provide me justice or I will leave the country”. The 38-year-old khateeb, of Sankhatra in Shakargarh, is determined to get justice against the alleged highhandedness of secret agencies. Talking to Dawn on telephone, Muhammad Qasim Siddiqi, khateeb at the Jamia Mosque and organiser of two madressas, said agencies’ personnel stripped him naked […]


Stopping violence against women: WRCP calls for men’s bigger role

KARACHI (September 13 2007): The White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan’s (WRCP) first report on ‘Men for ending violence against women’, a project of Women’s Empowerment Group and Vision 2015 international, was released nationally and internationally on Wednesday. Its Country Director Omer Aftab said that WRCP had completed its first year in Pakistan with the support of […]


Forwarding the cause of travelogue-writing

Karachi:At the launching ceremony of Saleem Alam’s third book and her second travelogue ‘Ik Jahan-e-Taaza’ on Tuesday evening, speakers highlighted the importance of travelogues as a genre of literature as these serve as an important source of information about people having varying geographical or national identities. The ceremony was held at ‘The Second Floor’, a […]


Journalists lash councilor remarks

RAWALPINDI (Online): Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists on Tuesday condemning the remarks made by Rawal Town Councilor Rana Sohail Pasha against the journalists have termed the remarks as offensive and derogatory A Meeting of press club chaired by vice president Jamil Ahmed Mirza was held at Rawalpindi Press Club. Afzal Bhut, Jehangir Minhas, Saqlain Abbas, […]