ISLAMABAD: The protests of the twin cities journalists against the media curbs continued on the 69th day on Saturday. The journalists staged the protest outside the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club camp office on the call of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ). Politicians, lawyers, students and civil society members joined the protests to express their solidarity with […]
IF the death of 14-year-old Mudassar Aslam, the victim of corporal punishment at a school in Hyderabad, doesn’t shake the authorities out of their apathy to conduct a full and transparent inquiry into his case then one can assume that the government remains indifferent to violence against children. Young Mudassar’s case was particularly traumatic. Physically […]
MINGORA: Security forces on Saturday nabbed more than 100 suspected militants in freshly-launched search operations, among whom 41 were said to be aides of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah. Military authorities told The News that security forces cordoned off the area around Kuza Bandai in Kabal Tehsil, which was once militantsà stronghold and started house-to-house search […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 12: The federal government has planned to set up an ‘autonomous’ commission on human rights which will have an equal representation from the four provinces. The proposed commission will take notice of human rights violations in the country and recommend punishments. Speaking at a gathering at the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry […]
At a two-day national convention of the Women’s Action Forum (WAF) Pakistan that ended in Karachi on Saturday, activists from Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad held President Musharraf’s regime’s responsible for the current crisis and deteriorating situation where smaller provinces are being exploited at the hands of the center. Paying a tribute to former Prime Minister […]
KHAIRPUR: Hundreds of villagers of the Faiz Gunj town of the district Khairpur on Saturday protested against the police by putting on a road the body of a woman killed in alleged police torture. The protesters accused the Faiz Gunj police of torturing to death Hawwa w/o Ibrahim Khaskheli and demanded registration of an FIR […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: Pakistan has expelled a journalist for the New York Times Magazine who interviewed Taliban leaders and visited the Balochistan province on the Afghan border, a media watchdog said.The journalist, Nicholas Schmidle, whose report “Next-Gen Taliban” appeared in the magazine on the weekend, was deported on Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) […]
President Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) Dastori, Tariq Abu Hassan, termed the year 2007 as ‘black year’ for journalists and media. This he said while addressing a general body meeting of KUJ Dustori at KUJ office on Saturday. The meeting approved two resolutions. In the first resolution it condemned the assassination of former Prime Minister […]
LAHORE: The Women Development Ministry has received threatening letters asking it to close its offices or face the risk of being attacked. Police have increased their deployment around the ministry’s offices and directed its staff to come to their respective offices with proper identification following the delivery of these threats, reported Geo News. The police […]
CHITRAL, Jan 12: Cases registered under the Hudood Ordinance in Chitral declined in the year 2007 as compared to the data of 2006. According to information collected from the District Police Office, about 292 cases were registered under the Hudood law in 2007 while the number of such cases in 2006 stood at 317. A […]
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