By Malik Tahseen Raza MUZAFFARGARH: Mukhtar Mai plans to file in a ‘couple of days’ a review petition against the acquittal of those accused of her gang-rape in 2002. Exactly a week earlier, on April 21, the Supreme Court had rejected Mukhtar Mai’s appeals against the Lahore High Court’s acquittal of the accused. The court, […]
By Ali Hassan ISLAMABAD: According to a newly published “A Tax Break for Economic Freedom” by Rakhshinda Parveen, political parties seem in favor to further relax tax regulations for widows and single women in 2011-12 budget. Women in Pakistani society face gender based discrimination that is further strengthened by feudalism. Only effective legislation with no […]
By Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: The prosecution on Wednesday closed its side after examining 10 witnesses in the JPMC trainee nurse rape case. The then medico-legal officer at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Dr Abdul Jabbar Memon, has been charged with sexually assaulting and making an attempt on the life of a student of the nursing […]
THIS is with reference to the news item ‘PA told: teachers harass UoP girl students’ (April 19). Although there was an immediate denial from the registrar of the University of Peshawar and the Peshawar University Teachers’ Association (PUTA), there is a need to seriously investigate allegations made by a member of the provincial assembly. A […]
Zubeida Mustafa ON April 11, the Arts Council auditorium in Karachi resounded with festivity. The first National Convention on Home Based Workers (HBW) was being held there. The disturbance caused by crying babies and chattering women did not detract from the gravity of the serious stuff that was under discussion. For long, women have been […]
By Sami Shah [email protected] Mubashir Lucman hates rape victims. He can’t stand them, exhausted as he is by their constant suffering and seeking of justice and maligning of innocent rapists. It just makes him sick to his stomach. If you are a rape victim and you are on Facebook, he will never ‘like’ anything you […]
Muhammad Nadeem Khan RAWALPINDI: Railways Prem Union held a protest demonstration against ban on Geo Super and Aag channels on Tuesday. Addressing the participants of the protest rally, Quaid of Prem Union CBA Ishtiaq Assi said that Geo TV and Geo Super were being targeted for supporting truth and right, and Geo always supported the […]
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari approved on Tuesday extension in the service of four Lahore High Court and two Sindh High Court additional judges for a period of one year. According to the president’s spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, the president extended the services of the judges as a consequence of the Supreme Court’s verdict and on […]
KARACHI: After the success of fifth consecutive exhibitions, sixth Information & Communications Technology Exhibition and Conference – (CONNECT 2011) is all set to blaze the IT industry. The exhibition will display state of the art technologies and innovative ideas & solutions from 3-5 May 2011 at Karachi Expo Centre. CONNECT 2011 will feature IT professionals […]
KARACHI: Federal Interior Minister Rahman Malik along with Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah discussed law and order in the province at a meeting held at the Chief Minister’s House on Tuesday in the backdrop of twin terrorist attacks on Pakistan Navy buses in Karachi earlier in the day. It was also stated that […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday urged the overseas Pakistani journalists’ community to play their active and vibrant role in improving country’s soft image abroad. She said this while talking to UK based Pakistani Journalists who called on her here. The Minister lauded services of UK based journalists and […]
CPNE soon to initiate membership to district- and tehsil-level newspapers running successfully. KARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will soon initiate the process of giving membership to district- and tehsil-level newspapers which have been running successfully, says a press release issued here. This was stated by CPNE President Khushnood Ali Khan at an […]
By Obaid Abbasi ISLAMABAD: The number of journalists in Pakistan has increased from 3,000 in 2005 to 17,000 in 2011, according to a presentation made by InterMedia on Tuesday. An NGO working on media development and DRI said that though the number of journalists have increased manifold during the last five years in Pakistan, they […]
ISLAMABAD: Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Tuesday that the transmission of Aag TV channel would be restored after the submission of a written statement from Geo Group to Pemra that it would not violate the content in future. Talking to the media after attending a meeting of the Senate Standing […]
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