ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Monday constituted a five-member oversight committee to monitor the 3G Auction. The committee will comprise representatives of the media, civil society, National Accountability Bureau, a technical expert and an economist. He announced this decision at a meeting of the 3G Auction Supervisory Committee, which he chaired at the […]
By: Muhammad Alam Khan BANNU: Nine persons — three policemen, a soldier, two civilians and three suicide bombers — were killed while five others, including a station house officer (SHO), sustained injuries in a suicide attack targeting the Kakki Police Station, officials said on Monday. The sources said three suicide bombers tried to enter the […]
SUKKUR: A man allegedly killed his married sister in Amir Bux Kalhoro village within the remit of the Mirpur Mathelo police station of Ghotki district on Monday. Police said that the suspect, Shah Baig, shot dead his sister, Bhagul, wife of Manjhi Naseerani, in the name of honour after she was accused of having illicit […]
HYDERABAD: Sindh Assembly deputy speaker Shehla Raza has said that the government has set up a separate ministry to safeguard human rights and urged all people, belonging to all walks of life, to put in their share in the elimination of the curse of harassment and torture on women. She was addressing a seminar organised […]
HYDERABAD: Leaders of NGOs and human rights activists have urged the government to establish a separate ministry for the abolition of bonded labour and create a fund to rehabilitate over 5,700 liberated labourers and peasants in Sindh. The Society for Protection of Rights of Child’s national manager Kashif Bajeer, Strengthening Participatory Organisation’s regional head Ghulam […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: An exhibition of a poster design contest to celebrate International Human Rights Day titled ‘Gender Equality Now’ commenced at the Ahmed Pervaiz Gallery of Arts Council on Monday. The show kicked off in 30 countries simultaneously. In Pakistan, it has been organised by the Human Rights Commission, Poster for Tomorrow Pakistan, […]
KARACHI: Two Rangers personnel, three policemen and an employee of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation were among eight persons killed in various incidents on Monday. Two traffic policemen and a passer-by were wounded in the attack on a Rangers picket near the Superhighway on Monday night. Rangers suspected that the attack was in reaction to ongoing […]
By: M. TAUQEER I WOULD like to draw the attention of all concerned, especially the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications, towards a humanitarian issue of more than 40,000 Telecom pensioners across Pakistan. These federal government pensioners, including 12,000 widows and orphans, are in miserable conditions for the last three years due to denial of […]
MUZAFFARGARH: The day when Malala Yousufzai’s father was appointed as Special UN Adviser on Global Education in France on Monday, the father of Shazia, another Taliban shooting victim, was planning to leave Swat and settle in Muzaffagarh, his native town, to avoid the backlash of militants. UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown announced […]
PARIS: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday announced a 10-million-dollar donation for a global war chest to educate all girls by 2015 set up in the name of Malala Yousufzai. The “Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education” aims at raising billions of dollars to ensure that all girls go to school by 2015 in […]
ISLAMABAD: Frustrated over prolonged salary delays, two employees of Daily Times, Islamabad attempted self immolation Monday, reports said. The incident occurred during work hours but timely intervention by colleagues thwarted their plans. The staff members requested the two involved in the act not be named. Angry staffers later went on a brief strike. Delays in […]
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