ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s communications satellite, Paksat-1R, was launched on Thursday by China’s Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province. A press release issued here said Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Athar Ali, Foreign Affairs Secretary Salman Bashir, Strategic Plans Division’s director-general Lt-Gen (retd) Khalid Ahmed Kidwai and Ambassador to China Masood […]
By: Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: The government has decided to launch the Pashto language Abaseen TV channel at the end of this year, but it will have to spend almost Rs400 million more for the purpose, officials said. ”The cost of the new channel will go up from Rs160 million estimated in 2006 to Rs550 million […]
ISLAMABAD: At an Express Media Group seminar on Thursday, poets, writers, journalists, actors and philanthropists expressed optimism that Pakistan will be able to steer out of its present crises. “Crises are not unusual in the evolution of nations. They emerge stronger from bleak times. There is no denial that our country is passing through the […]
Mushtaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: A group of armed men with covered faces kidnapped senior tribal journalist Rahmatullah Darpakhel from Miramshah, North Waziristan, on Tuesday, tribal sources said. He was associated with an Urdu daily Ausaf. The sources said Rahmatullah was shopping in the bazaar when a group of armed men bundled him into a car and […]
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ISLAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority, NADRA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with “UN Women”–the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women–to maximise the technical assistance, cooperation and coordination to ensure the commitment for working effectively and in an efficient manner. Alice H Shackelford, Country Programme Director, UN Women, […]
SUKKUR: A woman was strangled in the village of Jaro Mahar in taluka Khanpur Mahar of district Ghotki on Thursday. Reports say Hazoor Bux Mahar killed his wife Nazeeran Mahar on the pretext of Karo-Kari. However, in-laws of Nazeeran say she committed suicide due to domestic problems while her parents nominate Hazoor Bux Mahar in […]
This refers to a seminar organised in Karachi on August 09, by the Alliance Against Sexual Harassment, (AASHA), which dealt with the application of the recently implemented ‘Protection Against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act-2010’. Without a doubt, the passage of the above act is a step in the right direction and must be lauded. […]
Sir: Pakistan, a state made in the name of Islam, has half of its population comprising of women and more than half of these women are victims of violence, especially domestic violence. Physical and emotional abuse, rape, beating, burning and stoning to death — all news items that we come across daily – remind us […]
Sir: The Indian film Delhi Belly, an Amir Khan production starring Imran Khan, was released all over the world. This film was also played in the most famous cinemas of Pakistan. However, it had a highly licentious script. Last year, in July, another Indian film Tere Bin Laden, starring Pakistani pop singer Ali Zafar, was […]
THE most lethal incarnation of terrorism is cyber terrorism, as the computer age has opened up possibilities that existed like never before for terrorists using computers as their weapons instead of fire arms. In modern-age terrorism and cyber crime have become a potential danger for the sovereignty of a state and an individual’s safety and […]
By: Saleem Shahid QUETTA: The government of Balochistan will introduce in the provincial assembly on Saturday a police act which will give more powers to the administration and district magistrates. Sources said the draft of the Balochistan Police Act 2011 was based on Police Act of 1861. If approved by the assembly, the act will […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party has decided to table a consensus local government bill in the Sindh Assembly to address the grievances of all sections of people in the province. The decision was taken at a meeting of Sindh PPP leaders presided over by President Asif Ali Zardari here on Thursday. […]
By: Masroor Afzal Pasha KARACHI: The ordinance of local bodies 2001 would be amended after mutual understanding with the coalition partners as it was decided during already passed resolution in Sindh Assembly at term ending of ‘SGLO 2001’. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah indicated this while addressing a news briefing to the journalists […]
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