FOR years now, Pakistan has been considered amongst the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. The impunity factor is used to demonstrate the depth of the problem: the state’s lack of interest in pursuing cases of journalists being murdered or harassed. This is apparent through just the bald facts: more than 20 journalists […]
KARACHI: The solution to Balochistan’s problems lies in the provision of basic human rights to its native people, which can only be achieved by pulling out the armed forces and ending the role of secret agencies in the province. These views were expressed by the National Party vice president, Hameed Baloch and Awami Workers Party […]
All political, economic, social or administrative measures that the incoming government implements or enacts will be as null and void as were those of the Raisani government Ghaus Bakhsh Barozai, the Balochistan caretaker chief minister (CM), speaking recently at the Punjab University (PU) said that the “Punjab was like Balochistan’s big brother and had made […]
The first-ever Islamabad Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) that concluded here on Saturday proved a huge success with leading writers, artists, singers, general public and thousands of students from public and private schools and colleges thronged the festival. More than 23,000 participants attended different sessions during the two-day festival. To inculcate the habit of reading into […]
Politics is not the only passion that should consume all of our energies. No less testing challenges exist beyond the gladiatorial politics, which if taken on reward no less handsomely. For one, our Northern Areas are home to some of the world’s highest peaks – there are 108 peaks above 7,000 metres, including the five […]
KARACHI: President National Committee for Maternal and Neonatal Health (NCMNH) Prof Sadiqua N Jafarey said on Saturday that around 16,000 young women die of pregnancy and childbirth-related complications every year in the country and most of those deaths occur due to excessive blood loss after childbirth. She was addressing a seminar organised by the NCMNH […]
KARACHI: Inspiring instrumentals, decent vocal performances and a bit of dance recital marked the first day of the two-day All Pakistan Music Conference on Friday evening on the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) premises. The first item of the 10th annual conference was a dance performance by Sheema Kermani’s students after which the music […]
Ministry of Interior is implementing its directives on restricted movement of foreign journalists to ensure that propaganda against Pakistan in international media is discouraged which is hampering investment in the country, an official of Interior Ministry said while requesting anonymity. Declan Walsh, a New York Times journalist based in Pakistan for nine years, was handed […]
KARACHI: Haji Abdul Razzaq Baloch, 42, made sure he attended every protest held for the people who went missing in Balochistan. “These are our brothers who have gone missing. Some day when I would be gone, you would have to do the same,” the tall man with a bushy moustache would say. Little did he […]
ISLAMABAD: She is 36. It is almost 14 years since her life changed for the worse. What was supposed to be the happiest moment of her life became the nightmare she had never imagined. She was in labour, about to give birth to her first baby. The labour became prolonged. The daai kept saying it […]
MULTAN: A newspaper reporter was shot dead on Friday in Bahawalnagar apparently for helping police in an investigation. Two roadside vendors were also injured. One of them later succumbed to his injuries. The other being treated at the district headquarters hospital, was said to be in critical condition. No one has been arrested. Police said […]
Pakistan Press Foundation has condemned the death of Congolese radio journalist Guylain Chandjaro in Bunia. He was a Swahili-language journalist with Radio Canal Révélation, a community radio station. Quoting information from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on […]
A damning report by Amnesty International has brought to light what people involved in the media industry in Pakistan have known all along — that journalists are just not safe in the country. The report points fingers at all those quarters that have, in the past, been accused of making life a living hell for […]
One must laud the courage of the female officer who took a principled stance and resisted illegal appointments in the Ministry of Industries and Production. According to a report published in The Express Tribune, a grade 20 officer in the explosives department, questioned the appointment of a person embroiled in corruption cases with NAB, to […]
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