PESHAWAR 17 August 2016 — Advisor to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for Law, ArifYousuf has said that the government is ready to make legislation for the protection of journalists in the province in view of the threats from different sides if they send suggestions to the regime. He expressed these views while addressing the concluding […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda expressed concern over attack on Bukedde newspaper journalist, Joseph Mutebi on 10th August, 2016. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urges government of Uganda to investigate the matter of attack on journalist and punish those responsible for this […]
LAHORE: As many as 4,524 children between five and 14 years of age have been enrolled in schools under a project to eliminate child labour at auto workshops, petrol pumps, service stations, hotels and restaurants across the province. Provincial Minister for Labour and Human Resource Raja Ashfaq Sarwar told a meeting held on Tuesday to […]
ISLAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Tuesday informed the Sub Committee of Electoral Reforms Committee that online voting by 8 million overseas Pakistanis was possible and doable. The Committee met here under the Chair of Zahid Hamid at Parliament House and attended by MNAs and officials of NADRA and Election Commission.Briefing media about […]
ISLAMABAD – The Senate Human Rights Committee yesterday challenged the bonafides of the Human Rights Commission South Asia whose report about the operation in Karachi had been flaunted by the Rangers during the Committee’s previous meeting as ‘proof’ of its complying with human rights obligations during operations in Karachi. At the meeting of the Senate […]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights Tuesday shared consensus on evolving mechanism to stop misuse of the blasphemy laws. The panel decided to hold a series of meetings and invite representatives from the civil society and other segments, including religious scholars, legal experts and the Council of Islamic Ideology to firm up recommendations […]
KARACHI: Revere him or repudiate his ideas, it has to be said that no other thinker or philosopher has generated more debate on the machinations of power in the latter half of the 20th century than Michel Foucault. An exhibition of Saud Baloch’s latest body of work titled Under the Dust curated by Madeline Amelia […]
KARACHI, August 17: International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), the global network of 104 organisations promoting and defending freedom of expression worldwide, in two separate letters, has urged new Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh to pay attention towards ongoing investigation into the killing of Abb […]
Quetta Blast kills 2 journalists At least 73 people, mostly lawyers and two journalists killed, whereas more than a hundred injured in Quetta blast on August 8. After the murder of president of the Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) Bilal Anwar Kasi, a large number of lawyers gathered outside the emergency ward of the Provincial Sandeman […]
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