Karachi – An effective and close coverage of the ensuing general polls would greatly help in minimising the chances of rigging, speakers told a workshop here on Friday. The workshop on “Coverage of Election 2008” was organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) for working journalists at a local hotel. The speakers said many political […]
LAHORE, Jan 27: Caretaker Federal Information Minister Nisar A. Memon has called upon the journalists to counter foreign media’s `terrorism’ and avoid making the president controversial. Giving concluding remarks at the two-day moot on `National integration and media at the Punjab University Institute of Communication Studies here on Sunday afternoon, he said the caretaker government […]
KARACHI, Jan 27: The caretaker chief minister has finally decided to settle the controversy about the printing of textbooks, which has been in jeopardy mainly due to the seizure of the Sindh Textbook Board’s (STB) accounts by the education department, and has called a meeting on Monday (today), which all the senior officials concerned have […]
The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), while giving details of its ‘random’ report, has complained about the district administration’s influence in appointing polling agents for the upcoming general elections. FAFEN — a coalition of 40 independent non-partisan civil society organisations formed in 2006 — is appointing 20,000 polling station observers (PSOs) to observe the […]
LAHORE: The civil society organisations, lawyers, political activists and students staged a protest rally outside the residence of detained Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan for the restoration of the judiciary and freedom of detained lawyers on Sunday. PPP candidate Ayaz Imran, who is contesting from the constituency (NA 124) which was otherwise associated […]
Islamabad: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) would hold its second meeting on ‘Alliance of Eliminating Violence against Women’ today (Monday). Anna Fumarola, Communication and External Relations Advisor, UNIFEM Pakistan, told APP that the ‘Alliance of Eliminating Violence Against Women’ was launched on November 29 with the collaborative efforts of UNIFEM and other institutions […]
ISLAMABAD, Jan 19: Mother of Jehangir Khan, circulation manager of Daily Dawn, Islamabad, died after a protracted illness in Mansehra. She was 75. The deceased was laid to rest at a graveyard in her ancestral village Gandhian in Mansehra on Saturday afternoon, says a press release. Her Qul ceremony will be held on Monday. Source: […]
LAHORE (January 28 2008): The Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Nisar A Memon, has said that defence of Pakistan is undefeatable, and urged the national media to play its role positively for the promotion of national integrity. He was addressing the concluding session of a two-day conference on ‘National Integrity and Media’, organised by […]
ISLAMABAD – Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro Friday launched Automated Fingerprint Identification System (PAFIS) to provide a centralised database of fingerprints to help hunt down swiftly criminals and terrorists. Soomro who inaugurated the system at the FIA Headquarters termed it an historic occasion and “a quantum leap to provide better and effective policing.” The system […]
PESHAWAR: Two successive blasts in a CD market near Wakho Pul on Kohat Road rocked the city early on Sunday morning, damaging at least three shops but caused no casualty. According to residents of the area, three armed men came to Gulshan Market opposite Gulshan Rahman Colony on Kohat Road, located only five kilometres from […]
Homeless women constitute one of the most vulnerable parts of the society with many of them facing hardships because of dearth of facilities that could provide permanent shelter to them. One case in point is that of Sana Kanwal, an artiste who worked for Radio Pakistan and has performed in several stage plays. Having been […]
Leadership traits, once considered as close preserve of people, particularly men at the helm of affairs in any sphere of country life, has undergone a conceptual change during the last three decades. The concept of leadership now has a widened scope and it recognises that women and other economically and socially disadvantaged segments of population, […]
HYDERABAD (January 28 2008): The Final year students of the Institute of Information Technology (IIT) University of Sindh (SU) have developed different software projects including multi-language Online Dictionary, which was displayed in the exhibition on Wednesday at IIT Multimedia Centre, Jamshoro Campus. The software projects would help the multinational companies and industry of the country. […]
Federal Minister for Culture Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan Jogezai has asked for report regarding human trafficking through cultural troupes and persons involved in the heinous crime. During a meeting with Federal Minister for Human Rights, Ansar Burney here, Jogezai said that in the past young and innocent girls were sent abroad in the name of […]
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