LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz believes in equal rights to the women and that Pakistan can be transformed into a modern welfare state if the women play an active role in national affairs, PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz said on Tuesday. Talking to women party workers, she cited the Punjab government’s decision to increase the reserved […]
KARACHI: Following the killing of the last eyewitness in the murder trial of Geo TV reporter Wali Babar Khan, the complainant’s lawyer decided to skip court on Tuesday. The case was moved to the Anti-Terrorism Court-III within the Central Jail due to security concerns but witnesses and lawyers continue to receive threats. A police officer, […]
KARACHI: Pakistan is not a major contributor to climate change but is among the countries which bear the brunt of its effects. In addition to this, an alarmingly high rate of deforestation has wrought havoc on many parts of the country. Despite a myriad other stunning facts pertaining to the environment, some journalists feel that […]
Karachi: A police constable from the Excise Department was among the six people gunned down in the city on Tuesday, while an MQM activist who was injured in an attack on Monday breathed his last at the hospital. Thirty-five-year-old Police Constable (PC) Jamal Raza was shot dead in an ambush near the Mujahid Colony Ground […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday issued drastic directives to Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) for blocking all SIM stocks available in the market and handing them over with effect from November 30, 2012. According to directives of the Ministry of Interior titled SIMs—National Security, a copy available with The News, all SIM stocks […]
SUKKUR: A man shot his wife dead in Kotri. Police said that at Khuda Ki Basti, accused Rajib Shar shot his wife Mst Imam Zadi dead. The cause behind the killing could not be ascertained. The police shifted the body to hospital, but failed to arrest killer. The News
QUETTA: Two people were killed and 10 others, including three FC personnel, were injured in a bomb explosion at the Almo Chowk on the Airport Road here on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Sanaullah and Muhammad Rafiq. The condition of some of the injured was critical, hospital sources said.Reports said that the bomb had […]
KARACHI: It is never easy to be a self-taught artist and then carve a niche for yourself in the world of art. This becomes all the more significant in Pakistan’s context where art and artists are seldom appreciated the way they merit. A three-day exhibition of photographs titled ‘Voices of the Soul’ by a young […]
By: Rafia Zakaria THE heroine of a recent telefilm Riaya faced a conundrum. Married to a less-than-successful shopkeeper nursing pretensions of piety, she could barely keep the tea and bread going. Worse than the financial constraints were the impositions of her husband, who preferred to be called ‘maulvi sahib’ by his wife, daughters and sundry […]
By: Zubeida Mustafa RECENTLY, Judy Woodruff, the founding co-chair of the International Women Media Foundation (IWMF), summed up the goal of the organisation’s architects thus: to “promote opportunity for women journalists around the globe” and “highlight the work that women are doing in other countries, especially in those countries where there’s not a free press, […]
By: Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR: More than 4,630 internally displaced families, who have been relocated to the central tehsil of Kurram Agency, stand exposed to harsh weather owing to nonexistence of shelter as humanitarian organisations are reluctant to assist them, according to officials. “In the face of a harsh winter ahead, it will prove to be […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Defence sought time from the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make up its mind about an amendment to the Pakistan Army Act 1952 to remove an inconsistency because of which important documents of the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) are not provided to the accused. Mujeebur Rehman, the counsel for the […]
QUETTA: Parents and teachers should encourage female graduates to join media organisations so that the girls may create awareness about problems faced by women. This will also serve to correct the gender imbalance in the profession of journalism. These views were expressed by Tasneem Ahmar and Shaista Yasmeen of the Uks Research, Resource and Publication […]
LAHORE: Participants in a meeting have urged the Pakistan government to admit to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations about bitter facts relating to state of human rights in the country and fulfill the international commitments it made while becoming member of the International Human Rights Council some years ago. The council […]
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