Lahore: Punjab Assembly in its 35th session on Tuesday passed two bills, ‘The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab Privileges (Amendment) Bill 2008’, along with ‘The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab Privileges (Amendment) Bill 2009. These bills were presented by legislator Aamar Sultan Cheema and legislator Muhammad Asadullah. The bills were recommended by the Standing Committees […]
Lahore: Mazars in Pakistan organised a ‘Women Empowerment Conference’ recently in Islamabad. The conference included female public representatives, CEOs, NGO activists, media celebrities and entrepreneurs who highlighted their experiences cherishing womanhood and the daily professional challenges they encounter. Ms Muriel de Saint Sauveur, International Marketing and Communication Director at Mazars, who has worked extensively to […]
ISLAMABAD: A Pemra consultative meeting was held to deliberate upon much- needed “content regulation” concluded here, says a press release issued on Tuesday. The participants included the diversified talent and wisdom from all across the country including media men, civil society activists, educationists, poets and political figures representing Pemra Councils of Complaints and the Authority. […]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first Oscar winner launched a campaign on Tuesday, hoping that her documentary about survivors of acid attacks can help eliminate a crime that disfigures hundreds of women each year. “Saving Face” by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won the short documentary category at the Academy Awards on Sunday. The film follows survivors in their fight to […]
Jan Khaskheli Supporters and proponents of Balochi culture will gather in Lyari on March 2 to celebrate Baloch Culture Day. The event is being held to promote Balochi culture, to express solidarity with the Baloch living all over the world and to strive for harmony between the various communities living in Lyari. The programme is […]
Shamim Bano Karachi: At the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), another woman has succumbed to her wounds after being allegedly tortured by her in-laws. Saima’s parents’ suspect that their daughter’s in-laws are involved in what they claim to be a ‘parricide’ but police says the woman was mentally disabled and […]
Karachi: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday dismissed a bail application of a man in a murder case. Khajan, along with others, was accused of murdering an 18-year-old-girl, Taslima Solangi, who had been declared a Kari by a Jirga in Khairpur in 2008. According to the prosecution, Taslima was murdered by her ex-husband, Ibrahim, a […]
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is launching the world’s biggest voters’ SMS service to facilitate 85 million Pakistani voters. The ceremony to launch the service across the country will be held at the ECP’s Secretariat. By using this service, the eligible voters would be able to send their CNIC number on ‘8300’ and […]
After a long time I felt proud to be a Pakistani. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar victory, after the one and only Nobel Prize that our nation once won, is a beacon of hope and pride for the thousands of unsung and unknown heroes who keep the lights of Pakistan burning and manage occasionally to keep us […]
MUZAFFARGARH: Rukhsana Bibi, a central character in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s ‘Saving Face’, is yet to see the film but is happy to know that it has won an Oscar. “Even during its making, Sharmeen was confident that her film will win international recognition,” she says. Rukshana’s husband threw acid on her in 2009. The Acid Survivors […]
QUETTA: Hundreds of human rights activists organised a demonstration here on Tuesday in protest against kidnapping of political workers and students and dumping of their bullet-riddled bodies in Balochistan. Protesters led by Advocate Tahir Hussain of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan gathered in front of the press club after marching through various roads of […]
Shamim Bano Karachi: Two central leaders of the Sindh National Front (SNF) have been acquitted of the charges of ransacking the offices of a Sindhi language newspaper in Clifton in the year 2009. The Judicial Magistrate South exonerated Deputy Secretary General SNF Anwar Gujjar and Coordinator Karachi Razak Bajwa from the case on Monday for […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has expressed its profound grief over the sad and sudden demise of Raja Hussain Khan Maqpoon, publisher, Daily K-2, Gilgit, in an unfortunate road accident on the motorway. Late Raja Hussain Khan Maqpoon was a young and energetic publisher and a member of the APNS. The APNS secretary general, […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed its shock and alarm at the deviations from normal sensible behaviour that were witnessed during by-election held in 10 constituencies on Sunday. In a statement, the HRCP said: “The events that took place during the by-election have pointed to the dangers that can haunt […]
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