Karachi: Former Sindh chief secretary and founder of the Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Shah Jehan Syed Kareem, was laid to rest at the varsity’s campus on Tuesday. Funeral prayers for Kareem, who passed away on Monday aged 84, were offered at the university campus at 1pm. The prayers and burial were held at the […]
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday lifted a ban imposed by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on the airing of Indian teleplays, declaring it null and void as the federal government had no objections regarding the same. Pemra had issued a notification imposing a blanket ban on all Indian content on Oct 19, 2016, after […]
KARACHI: The Sindh health ministry has dispatched directives to all district authorities to make sure that fumigation is duly carried out and rainwater is not left standing on roads in their respective limits to safeguard people from possible dangers of Naegleria fowleri (commonly known as ‘brain-eating amoeba’) and mosquito-borne diseases of dengue and chikungunya. Worried […]
LAHORE: The Punjab Information Commission (PIC), the watchdog to ensure the Punjab right to information act, has been working without its vital officials for around three months. The PIC, which helps people to get relevant information from the department concerned in case of non-compliance, is working without the chief and two information commissioners. Chief Information […]
ISLAMABAD: National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) Chairman retired Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan on Tuesday concluded an attempted honour killing case after the Nilore police concluded that all relevant sections of the PPC were included in the FIR. The police have been directed to provide protection to the victim as there is risk of her […]
KARACHI: Institute of Business Management (IoBM) founder Shahjehan Syed Karim, who once served as the Sindh chief secretary and Pakistan Television chairperson, passed away at a local hospital on Sunday at the age of 84. According to family members, the former bureaucrat had been suffering from multiple diseases and had been admitted in the hospital for […]
Rawalpindi: Almost all public and private sector healthcare facilities in town have started receiving significant influx of child patients with gastroenteritis, diarrhoea and other monsoon related health threats though according to health experts, the situation at the time cannot be termed as an epidemic. Children are at the greatest risk of contracting gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, cholera […]
MIRPUR (AJK) – AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan returned home Sunday after attending the OIC contact group on Kashmir meeting in Ivory Coast and a brief visit to Dubai. He was received at Islamabad International Airport by a large number of workers and supporters of the PML-N. Talking to the PML workers, the […]
Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that journalist community is playing a vital role in the strengthening of democracy. Addressing an event at National Press Club in Islamabad on Monday, he said that the community has rendered sacrifices for the purpose. The Chairman PPP said that effective legislation should be made for […]
The State of Pakistan was reviewed for the first time by the UN Human Rights Committee this week in Geneva. In preparation for the examination, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) together with IFEX, the global network defending and promoting the right to freedom of expression and information, and RIDH, the International Network of Human Rights, submitted an alternative report in advance […]
It is not every day that people standing in groups form queues before the Arts Council auditorium’s gate to attend a dance performance, as was the case for Suhaee Abro’s solo performance, ‘Goonj’ or ‘Echo’. The free for all one-day event held this past week saw a full house, so much so that many who […]
KARACHI: After travelling for 11 days by foot, the long march for Sindh-based missing persons reached the Karachi Press Club on Sunday. The march, organised by Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh and the Sindh Human Rights Organisation, began on July 6 in Hyderabad. Participants were welcomed by civil society and human rights organisations in […]
ISLAMABAD: Although globally casualties of journalists have been reduced, yet in Pakistan’s case, the situation has deteriorated from sixth to fourth most dangerous county of the world for journalists, the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) that fights for the protection of journalists round the globe has said. Besides, there are also plenty of reported and […]
ISLAMABAD: The social media networking site Facebook has termed Pakistan’s request to link all accounts to individual phone numbers “improbable”. “Pakistan had suggested that Facebook accounts be linked with users’ mobile phone numbers. However, the management of Facebook believed it was more feasible to sync accounts with email addresses,” a senior official from the Ministry […]
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