LAHORE: Militants on Sunday targeted a government-run girls school with explosives, however no causality was reported, officials said. According to local police, unknown militants had planted explosives material in government school of the Bannu city which exploded with a loud bang. Resultantly the school building was badly damaged but no injury or causality was reported […]
PESHAWAR – Caretaker Minister for Culture Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mussarat Qadeem has said that efforts were under way to finalize cultural policy of the province and if needed an ordinance could also be promulgated in this regard as culture is the very identity of a nation. However, she said that unfortunately, the culture has been disfigured […]
SUKKUR: Three people were killed on the pretext of Karo-Kari in different areas of the Sukkur region on Saturday. Police said in Village Kakri in the limits of Lakha Road Police Station accused Shah Dost Brohi shot dead his daughter Dur-e-Bakht and her alleged paramour Abdul Qadir Brohi. Later, the accused surrendered himself before the […]
Karachi: The new office-bearers of the KU Journalism Alumni Association were elected on Sunday. Mehmood Farooqi and Abid Hussain were elected as the president and the general secretary respectively. The elections were held at the Karachi Press Club. Khalida Siddiqui and Omer Ansari were elected as vice presidents, Dr Fatima Hassan as the joint secretary […]
By: Anwarullah Khan and Haleem Asad KHAR/TIMERGARA: Two women, one from Bajaur tribal agency and the other from Lower Dir district, made history on Sunday when they became the first tribal women to file nomination papers to contest elections for National Assembly. Election Commission officials told Dawn that 40-year-old Badam Zari, wife of Sultan Khan, […]
Maleeha Hamid Siddiqui KARACHI: The adage that behind every successful man is a woman, held true on Saturday evening at the IVS Gallery where photographer Arif Mahmood launched a collection of visuals titled ‘Philosophy’, the first of a quartet series. Acknowledging his wife Aesha, Mahmood said it was she who had given him the idea […]
KARACHI: As part of the National Academy of Performing Arts second annual arts festival, the second presentation of bandashein composed in afternoon ragas entertained a small number of discerning music lovers on Sunday. It has to be kept in mind that the singers who performed are Napa students, therefore, the very fact that they even […]
PESHAWAR: ‘They are girls. Why are you going to great pains for their education?’ That’s what relatives used to ask Ms Taj Mir from Ambaar area of Mohmand Agency when there was conflict and she was concerned about her daughters’ education. “I was much worried thinking if my daughters would stop going to the school,” […]
ISLAMABAD: In compliance with an order of the Supreme Court, the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has devised a software to help 4.5 million overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes in the coming general elections. The $1.5 million software will help overseas Pakistanis in 15 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia, UAE, […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI, March 31: Translating a work of art is a thankless job. As the cliché goes, if the translation is not faithful to the original version it loses its contextual perspective; if it is not beautiful like the original text it mars its linguistic charm. This was felt while watching an Urdu translation […]
ISLAMABAD: Climbers will be gathering at the Mount Everest in April to celebrate the 60 years since it was first summated in 1953. Samina Beg, 21, is about to become the first Pakistani woman to be part of it. While the climbers from around the world will be celebrating the event, the Pakistan young woman […]
A seminar titled “Female Education in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)” was recently held to discuss factors that can be utilised to improve girls’ education in the province. The seminar was organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) to discuss findings of its long-term impact assessment study, begun in 2006, to analyse the effectiveness of a stipend […]
By: Samira Shackle Last week, I visited the Acid Survivors Foundation in Islamabad. Acid attacks, in which acid or other corrosive substances are thrown at someone, with the intent to disfigure, are a particularly brutal form of gender-based violence. And it is, on the whole, gender based. While men are occasionally attacked, the vast majority […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) expresses deep concern over the decision of the BBC Urdu Service management to layoff “forcibly” majority of its reporters in Pakistan. “The decision is autocratic, arbitrary, unfair, without any justification and based on prejudice,” said PFUJ President, Secretary General Amin Yousaf. Source: Business recorder
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