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Daily Archives: September 26, 2010

USAID aims to empower women through jobs project

* Deputy director says five-year jobs project supports Pakistan to improve workforce development systems and creating jobs ISLAMABAD: The five-year plan “USAID Pakistan Job Project” initiated by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with total cost of $80 million with support of Government of Pakistan (GoP), is committed for provision of employability to Pakistani […]


‘Protection of women rights a priorityÂ’

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that the present government believes in gender equality and has always advocated protection of women’s rights. He was talking to the UNIFEM delegation, headed by Aalice Shalkalford, here on Saturday. He said that the provincial government, led by the Awami National Party (ANP), had an […]


PFUJ condemns thrashing of journalist

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned torture of Mr Abdul Rehman Afridi, a senior journalist, and demanded immediate arrest of culprits involved in physical assaulting and injuries to the editor. In a statement issued here on Saturday, the PFUJ Secretary General Shamsul Islam Naz said that Mr Rehman Afridi […]


Minister sacked after maligning army, CJ

By Ahmad Hassan and Saleem Shahid ISLAMABAD / QUETTA: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday sacked Abdul Qayum Jatoi, the federal minister for defence production, after summoning him to the PM House for an explanation over a bizarre outburst against the Chief Justice of Pakistan and adjudging his defence as feeble. The prime […]