RAWALPINDI: Congress leader Rumi Nath, who represents Borkhola Assembly constituency, married Jaki Jakir, a Muslim, last month and converted to Islam. She had allegedly not divorced her first husband. Superintendent of Police Pradip Pujari said that five people, suspected to have been involved in the attack, have been arrested.Mrs Nath was visiting her constituency in […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party Sherpao (PPP-S) Chief Aftab Sherpao has asked the government and non-governmental organisations to take steps for women empowerment and protection of their rights to ensure a peaceful society. Talking to a delegation led by Aware Girls, a non-governmental organisation working on women awareness and empowerment here on Sunday, he said the […]
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain asked Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Sunday to fast-track legislation on lifting the embargo on overseas Pakistanis from taking part in elections. During a telephonic chat, both the leaders agreed to abolish the law barring dual nationals from contesting elections.They said overseas Pakistanis played an […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A woman was killed after she refused to give her daughter’s hand in marriage to a youth in the village of Deedar Rind near Mehrabpur on Sunday. Five gunmen entered the house of Sajan Rind and shot Ms Hasina, wife of Sajan, dead while she was asleep. Sajan Rind and her brother Deedar […]
NAWABSHAH: A man and a woman were shot dead in the name of honour in a village near Qazi Ahmed on Sunday. According to police, Umeed Ali Zardari killed his aunt Ameena, 34, and a villager, Sajjan Zardari, in Badruddin Zardari village. Umeed later surrendered himself to police and said he had killed the two […]
KARACHI: Academic and administrative activities at the Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology (Fuuast) have been suffering for more than four months because of the absence of a full-time vice chancellor, sources told Dawn. The process initiated for the appointment of a vice chancellor has not been completed yet as the university is […]
WOMEN in Pakistan, in particular, women in upper and lower districts of Sindh and Balochistan, face a variety of legal, socioeconomic and cultural problems. They are deprived of all fundamental human and constitutional rights. There is also a lack of genuine political will to ensure that girls are given equal access to education in the […]
PESHAWAR: Chairman of his own faction of Pakistan People’s Party Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has urged the government and non-governmental organisations to help the women affected by militancy and intolerance. He was talking to a delegation of Aware Girls, an NGO working for women awareness and empowerment, here on Sunday. The delegation was led by […]
KHANASPUR: Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in collaboration with private organisers managed to successfully hold National Music Festival in the lush green valley of Khanaspur in Ayubia. The first two days of the three-day festival were marred by alleged threats from extremist groups that the event would be attacked if music was played. One would, […]
ISLAMABAD: Art helps a country earn ‘soft image’. But, unfortunately, for Pakistan that image shrivels this summer as a merciless sun beat down on art galleries across the country. “Extreme temperatures, and sudden changes from cool to hot, however slight, harm artworks inside the galleries. This has been so in the galleries across the country,” […]
MULTAN: Photo-journalists of Multan, Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan, Khanewal and Dera Ismail Khan on Saturday staged a demonstration to condemn the high handedness of the young doctors in Rahim Yar Khan who manhandled and maltreated the Press photographers and electronic media men and thrashed them on the road. In Multan the demo was led by […]
JHANG: A man threw acid on his wife when she was sleeping. Police said Ramazan of Bansi Lal village and his wife often quarrelled over domestic issues. He threw acid on her when she was asleep on Friday night. As a result, her eyes, face and upper part of her body were burnt seriously. She […]
PESHAWAR – A joint working group of media persons was formed here on Saturday to work out on different issues in education sector keeping in view the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa budgetary allocations. The Peshawar Press Club (PPC) in collaboration with the Institute of Social and Policy Sciences (I-SAPS) formally decided this in an introductory and consultative […]
ISLAMABAD: ‘HEAL’, an award-winning short film set between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has been running on the international festival circuit for the last two years, will now be released exclusively online in the start of July. The film, set in the midst of the ongoing conflict in this region uses the supernatural to highlight an […]
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