By: Iqtidar Gilani LAHORE: Speakers at a forum titled ‘Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy’ have stressed the need for focusing on education, provision of basic needs to the masses and creating awareness about the role of family planning in improvement of mother-child health. Quoting data given by the Population Welfare Department, media personalities opined that illiteracy, unemployment […]
By: Siraj Khan It’s been a full year since the uncrowned Shehenshah-e-Ghazal left this world at the age of 84, to join his Creator. Mehdi Hasan was loved in India as much as he was in Pakistan. Truly, artistes like him belong to the whole world, where no barriers or boundaries of nationality exist. It […]
LAHORE: On the appeal of Sunni Ittehad Council Chairman Sahibzada Hamid Raza, 50 ulema have issued a joint fatwa, calling terrorism and suicide attacks haram (forbidden) in Islam. After the recent incidents of terrorism in Nanga Parbat, Quetta and Peshawar, the ulema declared that a suicide attack was haram (forbidden) in Islam and murder of […]
RAWALPINDI: Veteran journalist, columnist and poet, Anwaar Feroze, died here suddenly on Tuesday of cardiac arrest. He was 75. His funeral procession will leave his house D-538, Satellite Town at 9am on Wednesday (today) and funeral prayers will be offered at nearby Jamia Rizvia Ziaul Uloom. Later, he will be buried at H-8 Graveyard. Anwaar […]
The EU Ambassador Lars-Gunnar Wigemark has said that to become a GSP+ beneficiary, it is crucial that Pakistan eliminates child and bonded labour especially its worst forms. Addressing a public awareness event for the European Union-funded project Combating Abusive Child Labour CACL-II here, he also stressed “Linking child labour in Pakistan with preferential trade access […]
Rawalpindi: Eminent Islamic scholar and columnist Dr Aamir Liaqat Hussain has said, “In order to stem terrorism, Ulema have not fulfilled their responsibilities. It would be far from truth to say that there is no sectarianism. We will have to destroy all the objectionable material in the country including the one on the social websites. […]
ISLAMABAD: Everyday around 115 million children are exposed to hazardous work around the globe, including 15.5 million children who are engaged in domestic work outside their own homes, according to the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO). While linking child labour in Pakistan with preferential trade access to the EU, it has been emphasised the […]
By: Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves for China on Wednesday in a 12-seater jet, the media persons who will cover his visit are going to travel by commercial flights and pay for their trips for the first time. There are six journalists from private media going to China, a trip that […]
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