LARKANA – The mobile vans of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Regional Headquarters Sukkur have started visits of various districts upto June 8, to issue Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) to people of rural and remote areas. These mobile vans will visit various union councils of Larkana, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Kashmore-Kandhkot, Shikarpur and Jacobabad districts up […]
By Fouzia Saeed The writer recently completed her three year term as a member of the National Commission on the Status of Women and as the chairperson of the anti sexual harassment watches committee Implementation has been one of the weakest links when it comes to our country’s law enforcement. This limitation in our legal […]
HYDERABAD: Professor Mashoor Alam Shah, the Vice Chancellor Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro has expressed that the electronic and print media can play a vital role for the health awareness of the community, which can help in prevention of so many diseases. While addressing at the inaugural session of “Renovation/ Upgradation of […]
Shoaib A Raja ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said that the FC would work under the control of chief minister Balochistan and would have no role other than the restoration of law and order. He said a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani had […]
LAHORE: Use of social media has been rapidly growing in Pakistan which is useful in awareness creation among the public but also creating problems due to misuse of it. The trend of reading books has been declining with growing use of Facebook among the youth while all the political and religious parties are using the […]
**The application deadline for the 2013 program is August 1, 2012** In 2013, the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships will be creating several specialized fellowships and working exclusively with partner institutions. We are only accepting applications from journalists at our partner media companies or Muslim journalists from the following countries who are eligible for the Daniel […]
By Asad Kharal LAHORE: A year after journalist Saleem Shahzad was assassinated, his killers are yet to be apprehended and recommendations of an inquiry commission formed to probe the incident implemented, said the victim’s family and human rights groups. By not pointing out the culprits behind Shahzad’s murder, the commission’s findings have granted a ‘licence […]
Ismail Khan PESHAWAR: A tribal physician who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden was convicted on charges of colluding with the banned Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) and its chief, Mangal Bagh, court documents reveal. The four-member tribal court did not entertain evidence relating to Dr Shakil Afridi’s involvement with the CIA, citing lack of jurisdiction […]
Shazia Hasan KARACHI: The impact of globalisation, corporatism and glamourisation on the media, interference by the management and the government in editorial content and journalists’ credibility were just some of the topics touched upon by senior media persons speaking at the third international conference organised by the Mass Communications Department of the Federal Urdu University […]
HYDERABAD: A woman of Mirpurkhas has asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to provide justice to her against influential people of the area who were harassing her family. Zulekha wife of Mohammad Ibrahim said in a press conference on Tuesday said that Sattar Halepoto and Anwar Panhwar demanded hand of her daughter and on refusal […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice on Tuesday approved the MQM’s Constitution amendment bill giving representation to the “disabled persons” in the parliament and deferred the party’s bill on new provinces due to lack of quorum. The private member bill seeking amendments to Articles 50 and 59 of the Constitution for […]
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