By: Imtiaz Ali Karachi: The Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme (BBSYDP) and the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) on Monday signed a MoU for the vocational training of 40,000 women at a cost of Rs4 billion in the next three years under the ‘Women Economic Empowerment Project.’ The signing ceremony was held at […]
ISLAMABAD: Appointment of chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). Barrister Akram Sheikh has filed an application on the behalf of Independent Media Corporation (Pvt.) Limited, praying to the court that the notification of Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmed, the PEMRA Chairman, be set aside as […]
By: Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: NAB Chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari has directly accused members of the superior judiciary of trying to influence the outcome of the coming general election. Admiral (retd) Bokhari, in a hard-hitting letter addressed to his appointing authority, the president, has cast serious doubts over the role of the Supreme Court which […]
By: HAMAYUN ZAKI HUNZAI I USED to believe that the Internet has replaced books and now one needs to go to a library and waste his time while searching for a bit of information. Instead one needs the Internet to search for information. But thanks to one of my teachers who, with his strong arguments, […]
WHAT began as an outrageous situation and was expected to be resolved promptly is starting to feel uncomfortably as though it might become a permanent bar on citizens’ rights to access the internet — and that too because of governmental apathy. In September, cowed by the havoc wreaked in Islamabad by rioters protesting against the […]
LAHORE: The Regional Directorate of Human Rights held a meeting with the NGOs, working on the women rights for a general discussion regarding future cooperation on mutual interests. Mumtaz Mughal from Aurat Foundation, Fauzia Waqar from Shirkatgah and Ilahi Rehmat and Rukhsana from APWA attended the meeting. The Regional Director Lubna Mansoor welcomed the guests […]
By: Samira Shackle The forthcoming election is cause for good cheer. If all goes according to plan, it will be the first time in Pakistan’s 66-year history that a civilian government has lasted a full term and transferred power to another through elections. This is a significant step forward for the country’s nascent democracy. But […]
ISLAMABAD: Culture depicts the norms and traditions of a society influencing the living patterns of masses to a great extent. It is the identity of a nation, and established nations always have strong cultural values. In Pakistan, the idea of devising a comprehensive cultural policy emerged in 1995, which lingered on till 2005 when a […]
By: Vaqas Asghar ISLAMABAD: A woman was arrested by the Islamabad police on Sunday for her role in an acid attack on the branch manager of a private bank last Tuesday. The woman was arrested after two men already in custody named her as the person who paid them to throw acid at the victim. […]
By: Sher Khan LAHORE: After being closely associated with the Pakistani drama industry for the past few years, producer-director Farooq Mengal has now decided to steer the wheel into another direction and shoot a feature film. Titled Hijrat, the Quetta-based director’s debut film is about a love triangle with a backdrop of human rights issues. […]
SUKKUR: A man committed suicide after killing a cousin in Ghotki on Sunday. Police said that in Pandaki village in the limits of Ghotki accused Barkat Ali Waso shot dead a cousin Asif Ali over a domestic issue and later he committed suicide by shooting himself with a handgun. Meanwhile, a man shot dead his […]
Karachi: It was a Gujarati Garba Raas song that brought the crowd to its feet at the Swami Narayan Mandir on Sunday. But with Dandiya sticks missing, the women who jumped to their feet when song began had to do with clapping each other’s hands. But soon the popular Gujrati score turned into an endless […]
Karachi: Trade unions, federations, labour-supporting organisations and civil society organisations have supported the demands of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) to arrest the culprit killers of the journalists and delaying tactics to set up the 8th Wage Board and non-payment of salaries to the media persons by various media organisations. In a joint […]
By: Jamal Shahid PM Raja Pervez Ashraf has order shutdown of Youtube services in Pakistan. ISLAMABAD: Since blocking the YouTube five months ago in the wake of protests across the country over a blasphemous movie, the government has done practically nothing to either get the objectionable content removed from the website or open access to […]
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