LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has voiced concern at what it called the absence of clarity and direction in dealing with pressing crises confronting the state. In a statement issued at the conclusion of its autumn meeting on Sunday, the HRCP executive body said: “The Executive Council of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan […]
The Press Council of Pakistan (PEC) held a day long ‘An Interactive Session on Implementing the True Version of Punjab Right to Information Law 2013’ to make it more effective, meaningful and in line with the modern concept of openness and transparency in statecraft and democratic governance. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah presided over the […]
KARACHI: Nisar Khuhro, the Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy, while emphasising on the importance of information management, termed access to authentic information as the most valuable tool for a journalist. He was addressing a certificate distribution ceremony of participating journalists in 2-day media training workshop on Information Management. It was organised by the Skill […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to hold immediate talks with Baloch insurgents, both within and outside the country, without any impunity to individuals among them causing grave human rights violations. Launching a report of its fact-finding mission to Balochistan here on Sunday, the commission also urged the […]
LAHORE: “In a society that accepts extremism as its identity, how can anyone exercise freedom of speech or expression?” Columnist Saleem Raaz said, “How can writers find the courage to challenge such ideas?” The second session of the concluding day of the Second International Urdu Conference was themed Chaos in the Pakistani Society and the […]
LAKKI MARWAT: Local journalists held a protest demonstration on Sunday to condemn the killing of their colleague Ayyub Khattak in Karak and attacking another journalist Sardar Shafiq in Abbotabad. Led by Hafiz Minhajud Din, Patron-in-Chief Lakki Marwat Press Club the protesters started a march from main lorry adda and converged at Kargil Chowk. They carried […]
Ayub Khan Khattak, 42, reporter of a local newspaper “Karak Times” was shot dead outside his home by two gunmen, on October 11, 2013 in Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province of Pakistan. The gunmen, waiting on a motorcycle, opened fire on Khattak as he was returning home with his son at around six in the […]
KARACHI: A meeting of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) on Saturday reviewed arrangements for elections of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the biennial delegates meeting (BDM) in Karachi from Oct 24 to 26. The meeting constituted a reception committee for facilitating delegates attending the BDM from all over the country, according to […]
KARAK: The slain journalist Ayub Khan Khattak was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at Warana Mir Hassankhel village in Takht-e-Nusrati tehsil on Saturday while his son registered the first information report (FIR) against the two accused. Ayub Khattak was assassinated on Friday near his house by the accused identified in the FIR as […]
LAHORE: “The Urdu language might just fizzle out in the next 50 years if we don’t take solid steps to promote the language via technology and the internet,” Dr Atash Durrani, a linguist, said at the inaugural session of the Second International Urdu Conference which opened at the Avari Hotel on Saturday. The theme for […]
Our leaders are a group of professional thinkers and planners. This has been proved by the ridiculous plans that they come up with to curtail terrorism. Everyone had laughed at our ex- Interior Minister Malik for suddenly closing down cellular phone services whenever ‘HE’ thought the country was at risk, I am sure he took […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has condemned attack on senior journalist and general secretary of Abbottabad Union Of Journalists. Sardar Shafiq, who worked for a local Urdu daily, left his office late in the night when three men intercepted him.They then started thrashing him with iron rods, leaving him critically injured. In a statement, […]
THE Holy Quran has been approached from many perspectives: linguistic, liturgical, historical, exegetical, sociological, psychological, anthropological, aesthetic etc. The more perspectives one brings to the study of the sacred text, the better and richer our understanding of it becomes. People approach sacred texts from their own perspectives, their reading fed by their needs, interests and […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued Request for Proposal (RFP) to hire consultancy services for much-awaited auction of next-generation telecom licences (3G). The authority has sought to engage services of internationally reputed consultant for the purpose, who would assist on all steps necessary in making conduct of auction a success in terms of marketing […]
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