KARACHI: The Sindh government sales and display resource centre established last year to promote handicrafts and other products of women entrepreneurs and artisans from less developed areas of the province has been closed since January, it emerged on Saturday. Sources privy to the project said the sales and display resource centre was shifted from the […]
Women candidates and voters seem determined not to be intimidated by bomb blasts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Karachi and elsewhere in the country By Javed Aziz Khan Fear grips politicians in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Women candidates contesting on party tickets or looking for a reserved seat feel threatened too. And not without reason. On April 28 in […]
LAHORE: The South Asian Free Media Association and the South Asia Media Commission have urged the authorities in Pakistan to ensure that the media works freely while covering general election in the country. In a joint statement on Press Freedom Day, SAFMA Secretary General Imtiaz Alam and SAMC Secretary General M Ziauddin showed concern over […]
Tribal people in Fata are ready to give women a chance in politics By Ashrafuddin Pirzada Contrary to traditions, contesting candidates in Fata are encouraging women voters to cast vote in May 11 elections. This has happened after painstaking deliberations among various stakeholders — government departments and civil society in Fata. They have held a […]
By Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: British Council Arts Programme, Scottish National Portrait Gallery and VM Art Gallery, part of the Rangoonwala Foundation Trust, exhibits ‘Migrantegrations; Migration and Integration Stories from Pakistan and Scotland’. The exhibition is being held at the VM gallery, with Qudsia Rahim and Fazal Rizvi as curators. The exhibit boasts 14 portraits, expressing […]
M. Waqar Bhatti Karachi: Five people, including three women, were killed in the name of honour in the Farid Colony area of Orangi Town on Saturday morning. Two men stormed into a house at 9:30am and shot dead the three women, a girl and a man on suspicion of them having illicit relations, said Mominabad […]
Karachi: The Commonwealth Journalists Association expressed solidarity with the journalists around the globe in connection with the World Press Freedom Day. In a statement issued here, it said: “The CJA stands united with our colleagues around the globe who work around the clock to bring us the news, despite threats of imprisonment, violence and even […]
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