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Rehabilitation of flood-hit areas: Sindh against Nadra’s registration process

AFTAB CHANNA KARACHI: The Sindh government is against the method of registering the flood affected people by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) in the province as at least 50 percent population of these areas does not have the Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs), it is learnt. The federal government had recently instructed the […]


Urdu Newsletter Sep 03 To Sep 10, 2010

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Education and women

By Dr Riffat Hassan RECOGNITION of women’s rights in Islam was included in Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s reformist programme. He considered it a sign of decline and degeneration of the Muslim community of his time that it had not always had the political will to implement women’s God-given rights, including their right to equal opportunity […]


World Bank, IMF agree to give $550m

By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have agreed to jointly provide more aid to flood-hit Pakistan during the current fiscal year but both also insisted that the country needed to continue its economic reforms, officials said on Thursday. “In response to this (flood), I will ask the IMF Board […]


HRCP urges government to tackle roots of intolerance

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has attributed Wednesday’s attacks on Shia processions to the continued failure of the state to confront the causes and perpetrators of extremism and violence in the country. In a statement issued on Thursday, the HRCP said, “The attacks on religious processions in Lahore and Karachi have once […]


Honour crimes on the rise in Rajanpur, Mirpurkhas: Study

By: Asma Ghani ISLAMABAD – According to a study conducted by National Commission on the Status of Women honour crimes are on the rise in two districts of Punjab and Sindh despite the enactment of law in 2004 to end women related crimes. NCSW in collaboration with National Rural Support Programme, Pakistan (NRSP) and Rozan […]