ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Monday passed a landmark bill, which seeks to address key issues of the Hindu community, including matters relating to the registration of marriages, divorce and forced conversions After much delay and inaction, the lower house of parliament voted for the Hindu Marriage Bill-2016. Minister for Human Rights Kamran Michael presented the […]
LAHORE: Police frequently resort to extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment of people in custody, and those from marginalised groups — refugees, the poor, religious minorities and the landless — are particularly at the risk of violent abuse of powers by the force. This is the crux of the Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s 102-page […]
Fishermen trained by WWF-Pakistan released a diamondback squid in offshore waters of Ras Kachari, about 76 nautical miles west of Karachi, along the Balochistan coast earlier this week, the wildlife protection authority announced in a press release issued on Monday. The giant squid had been entangled in the gillnet of a tuna fishing vessel skippered […]
The Administrative Judge of Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday accepted the charge sheet (challan) submitted by the police in two cases pertaining to sedition, riots and attack on media houses on 22nd August 2016. According to the charge sheet, as many as 50 accused, including Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s deputy convenor Shahid Pasha, MNA Kanwar Naveed […]
The media war waged by India in the wake of PM Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UN General Assembly on September 21 highlighting Indian brutalities in Kashmir provoked the terms nuclear strikes, surgical strikes and Cold Start. Cold Start doctrine is an offensive military doctrine developed by India in 2004 to conduct offensive operations by […]
ISLAMABAD: The Coalition of Right to Information (CRTI) Monday conferred RTI Champion Award on Geo TV correspondent Azaz Syed in recognition of his use of RTI laws at the federal and provincial levels for obtaining information. The CRTI in partnership with the Center for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) honors two individuals each year who […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Peter O’Neill, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea expressed concern over the safety of media personnel in Papua New Guinea after Clifford Faiparik of The National and Jason Gima Wuri, of the National Broadcasting Corporation seriously injured in an attack. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in […]
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