By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has raised questions about the process being adopted for auctioning 3G licences in the country. “The NAB finds hiring of consultants for 3G/4G Spectrum (modern cellular phone technology) licences’ auction not in line with the Pakistan Procurement Regulatory Authority rules,” NAB spokesman Zafar Iqbal said […]
By: Mohammad Asif ACCORDING to a news item (Dec 12), the Pakistan Forest Institute, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, launched a report that there is an increase of 0.3 per cent in forest cover across Pakistan and 3.3 per cent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In a country where most of our trees are lined along roads and years of […]
PESHAWAR: Malala Yusufzai has asked the government to change the name of a degree college in Saidu Sharif back to its original name and allay fears and sense of insecurity amongst the nearly two thousands girls studying there. The request by the young icon of the right of girls to seek education came amid protests […]
By: Imran Ali Teepu ISLAMABAD: The much talked-about case of posting of two deputy chairmen of Grade-20 by Interior Minister Rehman Malik in the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) took a new turn when it was learnt that no consent was sought from the establishment division before issuing the orders. Chairman of the Public […]
By: Muhammad Ali Siddiqi IF Dawn truly had an unknown soldier, it was M.A. Majid, who died in Karachi on Thursday after a prolonged illness. Very few people knew him outside the profession because self-projection was never his forte. Yet it was Majid who groomed writers, some of them mediocre, into becoming renowned columnists. What […]
LAHORE: The human rights activists have urged the government to implement the child rights related recommendations for the country made in the previous Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on Pakistan. They also urged the government to accept new recommendations of recent Human Rights Council’s (HRC) session held on Oct 30 in Geneva, Switzerland. The participants […]
Pakistan Press Foundation has expressed concern over the attack on offices of Nepal Republic Media at Sundhara in the capital city of Kathmandu, on the afternoon of 20th December 2012. Quoting information from Freedom forum, PPF secretary general Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to Prime Minister of Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai, said the unidentified persons […]
By: Saleem Shahid QUETTA: A local journalist and two other people were shot dead in Bolan district late on Thursday night. Levies sources said a group of armed men intercepted a bus coming from Quetta on its way to Punjab on Quetta-Sukkur highway in the Machh area of Bolan district and kidnapped six passengers. The […]
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