ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney said on Thursday that a National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) would be established by the end of next week through a presidential ordinance. “We have moved a summary to the president and the promulgation of the ordinance is expected by the end of next week,” he told […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Feb 28: A laborer who has been kept in illegal detention for three days was beaten up and tortured inhumanly by the investigation police, a doctor who examined the victim at a hospital in Naushahro Feroze said. Dr Mohammad Ibrahim Memon said the poor laborer was tortured ‘inhumanly’. Dr Memon said that Soomar […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Insaani Haqooq-i-Ittehad – an alliance of civil society organisations– and concerned citizens of Pakistan, on Wednesday condemned the attack and brutal killing of the staff of an NGO in Mansehra. While expressing solidarity with the staff of Plan International, the alliance offered condolences to the families of the innocent people who lost […]
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ISLAMABAD: PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday assured that the PPP government would withdraw the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Ordinance, including recent amendments, and said that the access to information and freedom of the media would be top priority of the government of his party. “We will make it mandatory that every […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) in its meeting held here on Thursday decided to grant non-commercial FM radio licences to the Kohat University of Science and Technology and the University of Gujrat and approved the cancellation of 12 non-operational cable TV licences on the request of the licensees. Pemra Chairman Mushtaq Malik […]
PESHAWAR: International media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) expressed their concern at the US military’s designation of Canadian television network’s (CTV) young Afghan journalist Jawed Ahmad as an “enemy combatant.” “If the US military is going to make this kind of accusation, it should be based on material evidence and not just the findings of […]
ISLAMABAD – Co-Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Asif Zardari Thursday said that the PPP would ensure freedom of press, more access to information and would also establish state-of-the-art monitoring system of the government. Talking to a delegation of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIU]) led by its President Afzal Butt here at Zardari House, the PPP Co-Chairman […]
KARACHI, Feb 28: The Daily Dawn has jointly won the inaugural Karpoor Chandra Kulish International (KCKI) Award-2007 for excellence in print journalism. The jury has declared Dawn (Karachi) and Hindustan Times (Delhi) as joint winners. “The special report of Assistant Editor Afshan Subohi and her team in the business section of Dawn “Why does corporate […]
HYDERABAD, Feb 28: A newly-married woman on Thursday appealed for protection from a relative who she said had filed a fabricated case against her husband and in-laws accusing them of kidnapping her. Erum Sultana said at a news conference here with her husband Ahsan Ali that she had been betrothed to Ahsan, son of Turab […]
LAHORE, Feb 28: Citizen Commission for Human Development Director Farah Pervez Saleh has said violence against women is on the increase in Punjab due to an inadequate and discriminatory legal framework. Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Thursday, Ms Saleh said 901 women — 565 married and 336 single — had […]
Paris — Women Make the News, UNESCO’s global operation to promote gender equality in the media, will be launched for the eighth year on the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March) 2008 with the aim of encouraging news media to give editorial responsibility to women editors and journalists on that Day. Women’s Untold Stories […]
RAWALPINDI, Feb 28: Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench here on Thursday issued notices to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and returning officer (RO) of NA-57 Attock-I, asking them to submit their reply to a writ petition filed by Malik Amin Aslam, an independent candidate contesting from the constituency in February 18 general elections. The […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq has appointed 12 judges of the Lahore High Court to act as election tribunals for hearing poll petitions relating to the Punjab. Those appointed in consultation with the Chief Justice of Lahore High Court are: Justice Abdul Shakoor Paracha, Justice Muhammad Khalid Alvi, Justice […]
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