The expanding role of the media towards national integration has been further highlighted by the Government of Pakistan on January 23, 2008, by issuing satellite licenses to 12 new TV channels. Providing fresh proof of the governments policy for promoting free media, the Federal Information and Broad Casting Minister Senator Nisar A Memon emphasised that […]
This year, and we’re only a month in, has been a heavy one. Pakistan marked the New Year with characteristic aplomb. It seems that we are becoming a country that answers every question with violence. There is no room for negotiation, no room for debate, and certainly no room for difference. We have a problem, […]
KARACHI: The number of sensitive polling stations in Sindh has gone up 60 percent to 5,000 after Bhutto’s assassination, the Sindh government informed the Election Commission of Pakistan Saturday. “Previously (before Dec 27) the number was 3,000 out of a total of 13,405,” said commission secretary Kanwar Dilshad to the media after his meeting with […]
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has so far received 108 complaints against district nazims from across the country. Various complaints received by the commission were registered by elections candidates and voters and related to involvement of district nazims in electioneering. The involvement of district nazims in electioneering is against the election code of […]
LAHORE, Jan 26: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Vice-Chairperson Hina Jilani has said accountability of the military dictators is the biggest challenge faced by democracy in Pakistan. Speaking at the world social forum seminar on ‘Military dictatorship and challenges faced by democracy’ at the Lahore Press Club on Saturday, she said the army had been […]
ISLAMABAD: As civil society puts its act together and organises public opposition to President Pervez Musharraf in London, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has implored British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to tell Musharraf that free and fair elections will be impossible without the full restoration of Pakistan’s judiciary. In Pakistan, the lawyer community after a […]
The residents of Haroon Bungalows, in Union Council 13, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town have demanded action against some Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) officials for harassing and misbehaving with subscribers in the pretext of electricity load checking. Haroon Bungalows Welfare Association in an application sent to the managing director KESC, said an inspector of the utility visited […]
LAHORE (January 27 2008): The Punjab governor has made it clear that Pakistan badly needs the support of her print and electronic media to establish national integrity to counter the anti-Pakistani propaganda by the international media. Khalid Maqbool told the opening session of a two-day conference on “national integrity and media,” organised by the Punjab […]
HYDERABAD, Jan 26: A teenaged servant who had fallen victim to domestic violence at his workplace was admitted to Civil Hospital on Saturday after police arrested three members of the family who had allegedly tortured him. Medico-Legal Officer Dr. Mohammad Ayub Wassan said that the boy had visible marks of violence “he has certainly been […]
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