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Daily Archives: June 27, 2016

Snow leopard forced to live in captivity in Gilgit-Baltistan

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GILGIT: A majestic beast has been stripped of its right to live in the wild and has been forced to live in a cage in Gilgit-Baltistan for nearly four years. “King of mountains,” as the snow leopard is called, usually lives at an altitude of 12,000 to 18,000 feet and walks around an area of […]


Pakistan civil society organizations call on Turkish government to release Erol Önderoglu

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We, the Pakistani civil society organizations, media rights groups, journalists’ institutions and believer in freedom of press, are demanding from the Turkish government to free Reporters Without Border representative in Turkey since 1996, Erol Önderoglu, who was placed in pre-trial detention by an Istanbul court on June 20, 2016, with two other intellectuals. Erol Önderoglu, […]


Newspapers in GB stop publishing

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GILGIT: Owners of over a dozen newspapers in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) have stopped publishing in protest against the non-payment of their dues on account of publication of government advertisements. On Saturday, not a single local newspaper was published in Gilgit-Baltistan, the region from where no national newspaper is published. Local journalists boycotted the budget session of […]


Spread the word: Making people aware of their rights

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SUKKUR: Well-aware communities in possession of their rights is the first step towards the goal of achieving justice in our society. This was stated by Ghulam Sughra Solangi, chief of Marvi Rural Development Organisation (MRDO), at the concluding session on Saturday of a three-day training workshop titled ‘Community Paralegal Training’ in Sukkur. Solangi told participants […]