By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Transparency International Pakistan gave a clean chit to the National Database and Registration Authority on Tuesday in the award of a contract for preparation of national identity cards for overseas Pakistanis and observed that Nadra had not compromised on the secrecy of its database. The TI had taken notice […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Interior Chairman Senator Talha Mahmood on Tuesday claimed that the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) issued Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to around half a million aliens, including Afghans. Chairing the standing committee meeting, he said that majority of CNICs were issued to aliens with the approval of Chief […]
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Tuesday issued a policy note to the Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) recommending the withdrawal of the directive issued by the MoIT proposing establishment of International Clearing House Exchange (ICH) for international incoming calls for long distance international (LDI), fixed-line local loops, […]
KARACHI: One of the biggest challenges facing the country as it embarks on the path of sustainable development is for the government to realise the importance of having an environmental framework. Global vice president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Javed Jabbar expressed these views as he spoke on “An Introduction […]
By: Sher Alam Shinwari PESHAWAR: Due to the threat of extremism and militancy in the tribal areas, many professional singers and artists have either quit their profession or left for safer havens. Hailing from an aristocratic family of Kurram Agency, Naeem Turi is the only surviving amateur singer in the region. He has taken it […]
KARACHI: The Supreme Court has ordered all civic and environmental agencies to file reports about what they have done to control environmental pollution. On Tuesday, the counsel for the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (SITE) asked for more time to comment. Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Amir Hani Muslim adjourned the hearing to an unspecified […]
LAHORE: Senior lawyers have requested the Supreme Court not to hold proceedings on a petition filed by journalists against TV channel owners, and the distribution of money and plots among journalists by property tycoon Malik Riaz, in the Quetta Registry of the apex court because of security reasons. The apex court had issued notices to […]
ISLAMABAD: Dispelling impressions about the use of secret funds by the ministry of information, secretary information Rashid Ahmed told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Tuesday that his ministry did not spend any funds that were not mentioned in the finance bill. He was responding to a remark by a member of the standing committee […]
LALAMUSA: A mother of two minors and a teenager girl were reportedly shot dead at their homes on account of domestic feuds in two separate incidents. In the first incident, an enraged husband Tanveer Ahmad allegedly shot dead his wife Sehrish, a mother of two, in Sara-e-Alamgir Town and fled away after committing the crime. […]
ISLAMABAD: The Press Council of Pakistan on Tuesday urged the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting to help enforce and implement the ethical code of practice in print media. The committee met Tuesday to deliberate the functions of the Press Council of Pakistan The code of practice was framed by the council to […]
LAHORE: Pollution is having dangerous effects not only on the country’s overall economy but also disturbing the lives of the people. Public-private partnership could be very useful in countering alarming effects of environmental pollution. Pollution is destroying major crops and it can escalate energy issue in the country as well. These views were shared by […]
KARACHI: The International Council of SMEs (ICSMEs) has advised the Union of Small & Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) to seek protection from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) against the kidnapping, extortion and victimisation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by gangsters in industrial areas. While gangsters and extortionists have been on the loose in […]
By: Kamran Mansoor Karachi: While the provincial police chief claims that crime has dropped by half in the city, 14 people, seven of them political activists, were gunned down in the metropolis on Monday. Two Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activists were gunned down in a clash near Disco Morr, Orangi Town No 15.The two men, […]
By: HASHIM ABRO, Women are considered the backbone of any nation and our Constitution provides for equality of women: however, this provision is often not practiced. The vast majority of Pakistani women, in particular, those in rural areas from Sindh, Balochistan and KPK suffer in absolute misery and wretchedness. In Pakistan women are less valued […]
” 
” 
” 
” 
” 
