ISLAMABAD: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that Sindh and Balochistan would be the biggest beneficiaries of power generation triggered by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project, with 36 per cent and 26pc the total production of 13,880MW going to them, respectively. Presiding over a National Harmony Workshop at the National Defence University […]
SUKKUR: Ghotki Police have failed to recover the Mirpur Mathelo- based reporter, Hakim Abro, who was kidnapped from the limits of Sarhad police station on April 22. The Ghotki SSP had promised the protesting journalists that the abductee will be recovered shortly but there has been no success despite the lapse of 20 days. On […]
Karachi: This is a highly innovative exhibition; the paintings depict the past in a manner that preserves the cultural and historical heritage and, yet, gives us a window on the future. Pakistani artists are, indeed, a highly talented and innovative lot. So said Emyl Weiss, Consul-General of Switzerland in Karachi, while speaking to The News […]
Rawalpindi – Chairperson Child Protection Bureau Punjab, Begum Saba Sadiq paid a visit to Child Protection Bureau Rawalpindi on Monday afternoon. She met the destitute and runaway children who are residing at the centre. MPAs Lubna Yasmeen, Tehseen Fawad, Begum Raheela, Ziab-un-Nisa Awan and Sobia Satti, DG Child Protection Bureau Punjab Fatima Sheikh, RPO Rawalpindi […]
LAHORE: It took Pakistan decades to frame laws on universal access to education and to take a strict stance on child marriages, Democratic Commission for Human Development Executive Director Tanveer Jahan said at the closing session of a series of workshops for policemen on Monday. There is a need to harmonise various laws pertaining to […]
LARKANA: Speakers at a seminar titled ‘Moenjodaro’ underlined various aspects of the ancient archaeological site covering the Indus civilisation, construction work, myth about the mound, museum, excavated artefacts, present day state of the ruins and the causes leading to the destruction of the ‘city of dead’. The Larkano District Historical Society (LDHS) held the seminar […]
KARACHI: Late activist, columnist and poet Abeda Iqbal Azad was remembered as a writer who shed light on life in both Dhaka and Pakistan at a memorial session held at Karachi Press Club on Saturday. Several journalists attended the session, organised by the club’s literary committee to mark Azad’s third death anniversary at the Ibrahim […]
When we think of addicts, the picture that normally comes to mind is that of a gaunt man or woman, huddled in a corner, trying desperately to get his/her next fix of heroin. But addiction isn’t just about substance abuse. If a person engages in an activity (gambling, for instance) to the point where it […]
ISLAMABAD: “We were never very active with regards to the media and that has taken a toll on our perception,” says Asif Khursheed, a public relations man with a slightly more challenging job than most others in this profession. Mr Khursheed works for the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), a charity organisation that earned notoriety when it […]
PESHAWAR: An advertisement titled public notice and stating that close relatives of missing terrorists would be liable to prosecution, including death sentence and confiscation of properties if they failed to report their disappearance, has raised many eyebrows as legal experts believe that no such provision is available in any law available in the country. The […]
KARACHI: “Never a fishing village, Karachi was in fact a fortified trading settlement established in 1729,” said urban planner and architect Arif Hasan at the soft launch of the I Am Karachi film festival held at a local hotel on Saturday. This was announced as part of the many initiatives of the I Am Karachi […]
New York, May 8, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by a report that the U.S. National Security Agency carried out intensive surveillance of Al Jazeera’s Islamabad bureau chief, Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, based on suspicion that he was a member of Al-Qaeda. The Intercept reported today that the NSA’s information supporting its claim […]
HYDERABAD: Threatened by the killings of a number of rights activists in the country in the last three years, representatives of rights and advocacy-based non-profit organisations have joined hands to form the Human Rights Defenders Coalition. Following a consultative meeting attended by over three dozen representatives, a 12-member interim committee was formed to strengthen the […]
As soon as the law-enforcement agencies formally launched the Karachi operation this year, the electronic media somehow became a sort of hot battleground between MQM and anti-MQM quarters in the country. Both sides have readily chosen to resort to the media to formulate their respective narratives on the current situation in the city of Karachi. […]
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