By: TALLAT AZIM The first 25 members of the Nawaz Sharif cabinet have been sworn in. It is noticeable that women are missing. The two berths given to them have as yet not been allocated portfolios. It is very much a man’s world among the PML-N wallahs. I remember I was once at a private […]
LAHORE: A 24-year-old woman was strangled to death by her husband in South Cantt police area over a domestic dispute, while five people including two women were killed in different incidents across the city on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Tahira Bibi wife of Tahir ul Hussan, resident of Bhatta Chowk. Police said that […]
By: Waseem Abbasi ISLAMABAD: After a nine-month ban on YouTube, Pakistanis may finally be able to watch and share useful videos on the world’s most popular video website soon. The new government has declared it as one of its top priorities to restore YouTube with proper filtration of blasphemous and pornographic content and through assertive […]
By: ZULFIQAR AHMAD & NAVEED BUTT The distribution of reserved seats for women in the National Assembly to wives, daughters, or relatives of top party stalwarts while ignoring women at the grass-roots level, has badly tarnished the image of major political parties. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) which had bagged 31 seats reserved for women bestowed […]
Women rights have been ignored due to weak implementation of relevant laws and lack of sufficient legislation, said speakers at a consultative dialogue here on Saturday. The government has made little progress for making legislation for protection of women rights over the past few years, while a few laws were promulgated but implementation was remained […]
UBAURO: The family of 17-year-old Safia Solangi went on hunger strike in the scorching heat on Saturday, to demand her safe return from their tribe’s chieftain. Safia’s father Muhammad Murad and other family members hailing from Sher Muhammad Solangi village set up their hunger strike camp in Ubauro. According to Murad, Safia married Abdul Shakoor […]
RAWALPINDI: Legal expert Babar Sattar Advocate has said that capital punishment is not something pleasant. To send a man to gallows should give us a food for thought. We need to learn a lesson from the Shahzeb murder case. The matter should be welcomed to the extent that a family got justice, but simultaneously it […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Imaginativeness in art is often defined as the ability to come up with something ‘new’ by employing tried and tested techniques or by playing around with familiar themes. Well, being imaginative does not always mean to reinvent the wheel in a creative manner. It also implies the knack for making others […]
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