Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has decided to outsource its work in the UK to a security company here and a deal has already been struck, The News has learnt. The intricate details of the outsourcing project and to speed up the completion process were discussed in an internal […]
By Masood Haider UNITED NATIONS: The Unesco condemned the murder of Pakistani journalist Munir Shakir and called for bringing his killers to justice. “It is essential that the perpetrators of this crime be brought to justice as soon as possible,” Irina Bokova, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) said in a […]
PESHAWAR: International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders condemned on Wednesday three recent attacks on journalists – two of them by policemen — in Peshawar. A reporter was badly injured when a TV crew was ambushed on August 22. A TV crew covering an area that haad been attacked by a suicide bomber was brutalised by […]
LAHORE: Journalists from electronic, broadcast and print mediums discussed issues of gender equity and women empowerment in the context of media reporting, at a workshop hosted by Aurat Foundation in partnership with USAID and Individualland Pakistan (IL-Pakistan). The USAID-supported Gender Equity Programme (GEP) was aimed at sensitising the media on the way gender and women […]
Karachi: Under the supervision of the director of the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Studies (CEWS) and founder of Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Niswan (ATN), Prof Dr Nasreen Aslam, a self-employed women’s fund, has been established for home-based women workers. The fund has been established with the cooperation of generous personalities of the city. The fund would be […]
LAHORE: The Punjab government has reportedly refused to accept women crisis centres in the province, asking the federal government to take appropriate action regarding their future. The centres have been devolved to the provinces under the 18th Amendment.But, sources said on Wednesday, all other provinces had accepted them. The viewpoint of the Punjab government was […]
MARDAN/GHALANAI: Militants blew up a government school in Mardan district and attacked several checkposts in Mohmand Agency on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday. Sabir Gul, the SHO of Jabbar police station in Mardan, told Dawn that unidentified militants had planted explosives in a room of Government Girls Higher Secondary School Sawldher that went off […]
THIS is apropos the letter ‘Unethical cellular networks’ (Aug 20). I am also a victim of yet another irresponsible cellular netwrok. I recently went to a business centre of a leading cellular company in the DHA, Karachi, to get my prepaid connection converted to post-paid package. As usual, a lengthy paperwork was done by the […]
By Saleem Shahid QUETTA: The Inspector General of Frontier Corps in Balochistan, Major General Obaidullah Khattak, has termed a report of the Human Rights Watch on the law and order situation in Balochistan one-sided and partial and an attempt to discourage security forces and encourage organisations involved in terrorist activities in the province. “I reject […]
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