QUETTA: Three separates landmine blasts on Thursday left as many as eight people, including Balochistan Levies personnel, women and a child, wounded in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan. Police sources confirmed two Levies personnel, three women, a child and two others sustained injuries in three separate incidents across Dera Bugti. In the first incident, the […]
PAKISTAN must learn from America’s Sandy experience, especially how, in spite of the deadly potential of the superstorm, human suffering was reduced to a minimum. Weather warnings helped. But what mattered greatly was how the people and the emergency ser-vices reacted to minimise the storm’s ravages. The administration and relief agencies seem also to have […]
ISLAMABAD: The Netherlands has announced a contribution of $2.5 million to support the ‘Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Programme’ in Balochistan. The Dutch government and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) signed an agreement to this effect on Thursday. UNODC Country Representative Jeremy Douglas and Dutch Ambassador Gajus Scheltema signed the accord. IGP […]
By: Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD, Oct: 3: After the case of alleged Rs47 billion tax evasion by cellular companies the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology got another shock on Wednesday when it was informed that telecom and internet service providers had defaulted on Rs26 billion payable to the Universal Services Fund. Members of the […]
Berlin: The German Foundation Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftungor FES gives its highest human rights award to the tribal union of journalist or TUJ, FATA. This award is recognition of the work done by the journalists in FATA. TUJ has worked for 20 years to consolidate media freedom and freedom of expression in the region. It represents around 250 […]
Commitments must be followed by action said national and international human rights NGOs today in the wake of the second review of Pakistan under the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. NGO representatives said that they feared that an overoptimistic picture of progress since 2008 had been presented by the government delegation, headed by Minister […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Union of Journalists (KuJ) and the Peshawar Press Club have condemned the rude and violent behavior of police after a local journalist was beaten up. Ziaul Haq, ARY TV bureau chief was thrashed by cops Thursday in the presence of Superintendent of Police Khalid Hamdani, reports said. In a hurriedly called meeting at […]
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