HYDERABAD: Acting Vice Chancellor University of Sindh Professor Dr Parveen Shah has said that information technology plays a vital role in the growth of economy and education all over world. She stated while inaugurating one-day project exhibition developed by the final year students of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT) University of Sindh […]
SUKKUR: Haleema is one of the three women who arrived at the women’s complaint centre on Tuesday night, fearing for their lives. They claimed that their husbands wanted to kill them over the pretext of karo kari. On Tuesday, Haleema, a resident of the Rato Shal village in Khaipur, overheard her husband and in-laws plotting […]
By Owais Jafri Panjayat in rural Punjab decides the girls will be forced into marriage. ROJHAN: Rasheed and Nasreen fell in love, got married and ran away. So far, this tale from the rural Punjabi district of Rajanpur is common, both in Pakistani life and soap operas. It becomes a sick genre of its own […]
Karachi: He arrived at the ashram very much like a local Sufi Shaykh entering a Khanqa among his enthusiastic devotees. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar, clad in a cream-white Kurta and Dhoti and sporting a Sindhi skull-cap, was welcomed with heavy garlands, loud cheers and a torrent of rose petals. The occasion was the opening ceremony […]
LAHORE: South Asia Free Media Association (Safma) and Media Commission-Pakistan have condemned the government plans to introduce Internet blocking and filtering system and a “vague” set of rules for the electronic media “as an attempt to pressure people’s right to information”. “Media censorship is not new in Pakistan, where military dictators come and go. But […]
KARAK: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti on Wednesday announced 100 percent increase in oil and gas royalty for Karak and establishment of a full-fledged university in the district. Addressing a public meeting here, he said the provincial government was planning to establish Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Oil and Gas Company to explore the oil and […]
Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Wednesday passed the Industrial Relations Bill 2012, to ensure more rights to labourers and consolidate and rationalise the law in Islamabad Capital Territory and at trans-professional level, relating to formation of trade unions, determining the collective bargaining agents. The Senate had already passed this bill last week and now […]
LAHORE: The minority women are facing severe problems in the Pakistani society and need a policy response, according to a study conducted in 2010-11 by the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP). The statistics were made public in a press conference by NCJP on Wednesday. MPA Najmi Saleem, IA Rehman, Justice (r) Nasira Javed […]
Every Pakistani who believes in the equality of gender is proud of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Oscar victory. She is the first Pakistani woman film director who has honoured the nation. Recently the government has enacted a law against acid attackers with 14 years to life imprisonment and Rs one million fine. Even after this law, […]
THIS is with regards to the day upon day ordeals faced by women when it comes to commuting in public buses. Being a regular traveler, I have experienced a number of times that men who upon not finding any vacant seats for themselves occupy seats in the women’s region. The women compartment which is already […]
KARACHI: Another female foetus was found in a storm drain in the city on Wednesday exactly a month after five foetuses had been found in a garbage dump near a storm drain in Manzoor Colony. The six- to seven-month-old foetus was found in the storm drain passing through Rajput Colony of Gulshan-i-Iqbal Block 3, said […]
Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly came out strongly on Wednesday to account for so-called missing persons and, through a unanimous resolution, called for enacting a comprehensive law to regulate intelligen-ce and security agencies often blamed for disappearances and extra-judicial killings of dissidents. The move came on the first day of what will be the […]
LAHORE: As many as 74 per cent of minority women living in Pakistan faced sexual harassment during 2010 and 2011, respectively, while 43 per cent complained about facing religious discrimination at workplaces, educational institutions and neighborhoods. “Moreover, 27 per cent minority women (Christian and Hindu) faced discrimination in admissions to educational institutions and were forced […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to initiate an inquiry against Pakistan Television (PTV) Managing Director Yousuf Baig Mirza on allegations of corrupt practices and misuse of authority. At a meeting on Wednesday, the bureau decided to dispose of a case against Usman Farooqi, former chairman of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and brother […]
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