ASMA GHANI ISLAMABAD — Eight-day training workshop on “Women in Leadership and Management in Higher Education” for the female students and faculty members held to develop a network of trained and confident professional women to equipped them to collaborate extensively across the country. The National University of Science & Technology (NUST) had organised the workshop […]
SUKKUR: A woman was killed by her husband on the pretext of karo-kari in Haibat Bajkani village near Kandhkot on Sunday. Shahid Dino Bajkani had been suspecting that his wife Luddi had illicit relations with a man. He shot her dead in their house. Police took the body to Civil Hospital Kandhkot and, after post-mortem, […]
RAWALPINDI: Dr Nafisa Shah, chairperson of National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), on Sunday called for increasing women`s participation in all walks of life, especially in higher education institutions. Addressing the closing ceremony of the workshop on “Women in Leadership and Management in Higher Education”, she said it is high time for Pakistan to promote […]
Sana Bucha I have been in the journalism industry for the last 10 years, but am I a journalist? Can anyone deny that journalists have been used – often willingly – by dictators, democratic governments and the establishment. Each bit of news that we read in print or every current affairs programme that we watch […]
ISLAMABAD: The government said on Sunday it had not yet decided to hand over to the US authorities American citizen Raymond Davis accused of gunning down two young men in Lahore on Thursday. “It is wrong to say that at this stage the government has decided to send Davis to the US,” said president’s spokesman […]
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency has tightened the noose around its own chief, Waseem Ahmed, and Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, in connection with the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam. FIA Additional Director General Capt (retd) Zafar Ahmed Qureshi on Friday got an arrest warrant issued from a federal […]
LAHORE: The Punjab Ombudsman has reportedly surrendered six out of 25 consultants and two other officials after authorities took serious notice of “unnecessary expansion” of his staff. Sources told Dawn on Sunday that the ombudsman had surrendered six consultants, one deputy secretary and one section officer. He was expected to remove more consultants as the […]
KARACHI: A meeting of the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) to be held during the first week of February would authenticate the formal establishment of the Human Rights Complaint Cell after which it would function around-the-clock. This was disclosed in a progress report prepared by the director for human rights. The report, which was submitted […]
ISLAMABAD: Five PEMRA councils, assigned to address reverences against TV channels and cable operators, have disposed of 540 complaints during past four months. One council each has been set up in all the provinces, federal capital are working under Pakistan Electronic and Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), said official sources. Strict action has been taken against […]
ISLAMABAD: Five PEMRA councils, assigned to address reverences against TV channels and cable operators, have disposed of 540 complaints during past four months. One council each has been set up in all the provinces, federal capital are working under Pakistan Electronic and Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), said official sources. Strict action has been taken against […]
* Attendants pay rich tributes to late Punjab governor LAHORE: A large number of people from different walks of life attended the Chehlum of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer at his residence at Cavalry Ground on Sunday. Taseer’s widow, Aamna, his sons Shehryar, Shan and Shahbaz, daughters and sons-in-law Shoaib and Umar Salamat, close relatives […]
FEAR has gripped the mindset of the Pakistani liberal secular class as a consequence of the brutal murder of Salman Taseer. We are told that Jinnah’s Pakistan is now completely dead and the ‘barbarians’ are knocking at our doors. We can be killed anytime, anywhere and by anyone. With an unequal distribution of economic, political […]
Adiah Afraz We columnists might not look trendy in our photographs, but in reality we are a pretty trendy lot. We follow trends like clockwork, and revel in how they develop and reach their logical conclusions. So when a submission deadline is looming large on our heads and an empty computer screen is staring blankly […]
KARACHI: A media city project will be initiated in the metropolis, said Sindh Minister for Information Technology Muhammad Raza Haroon. He was speaking as chief guest at the annual function of the Karachi High School here on Saturday. The minister said that the project would have all the facilities of information technology and that it […]
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