ISLAMABAD: Dr Nafeesa Shah, Chairperson National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, and Advisor to Prime Minister on Human Rights and Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Special Assistant to Prime Minister called on Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf at PM’s House on Tuesday and briefed him on the status of Human Rights in Pakistan. […]
THE early morning fire in the studio of a private TV channel in Lahore on Monday is another painful reminder of the lack of concern for safety standards in Pakistan. At least five people were reported killed while over a dozen were injured when the blaze erupted during a live sehri transmission. The fire was […]
KARACHI: Like elsewhere in the country, all the 27 district election commissioners in Sindh were on Tuesday provided lists of new electoral rolls to facilitate verification of voters’ entry in the rolls. There were 18,432,877 registered voters — 10,214,460 male and 8,218,417 female — according to the new rolls, said Najeeb Ahmad, director (headquarters) of […]
By: ANIS SIDDIQUI Islamabad: SHAISTA Zaid bade farewell to news reading on radio and television after over 40 years. She read her last bulletin on Pakistan Television the other day while she had left Radio Pakistan a couple of years ago for health reasons. Ms Zaid, in my opinion, is a national asset and fully […]
By: Intikhab Hanif LAHORE: Dismally low monsoon rains in July and little hope of any improvement in August is likely to create water shortage in the country, threatening kharif crops mainly cotton and rice. The Pakistan Meteorological Department had forecast five to 15 per cent above normal monsoon rains from July to September, also indicating […]
LAHORE: Asma Jahangir has called on the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to take notice of the “manner in which TV channels have shown conversion of a young Hindu boy”. In a statement on Tuesday, she called the incident ‘distasteful’ and a way of spreading religious intolerance. Dawn
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court stopped on Tuesday a Joint Investigation Team’s (JIT) inquiry into the Arsalan-Riaz graft case for two days after one of the members of the team was accused of being partial. Following the court order, the JIT stopped functioning and it did not serve fresh notices to Supreme […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court observed on Tuesday that the media should also present itself for accountability and an effective and implementable code of conduct was necessary for the media. During proceedings on applications of known journalists – Hamid Mir and Absar Alam – the two-member SC bench comprising Justice Jawad S Khwaja and Justice Khilji […]
By: Intikhab Hanif LAHORE: Dismally low monsoon rains in July and little hope of any improvement in August is likely to create water shortage in the country, threatening kharif crops mainly cotton and rice. The Pakistan Meteorological Department had forecast five to 15 per cent above normal monsoon rains from July to September, also indicating […]
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