PESHAWAR – The NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani while jubilating the establishment of first women university in the province (NWFP) has regretted that their opponents are unable to visualize the revolutionary steps being initiated by the Mutahidda Majlis-e- Amal government. Such elements are black-banded as neither they witness achievements of the MMA government nor […]
ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) and Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) on August 30, signed an agreement to use PakSat-1 9MHz space segment for AJK TV, says a press release. Under the agreement, signed by Suparco Chairman Maj-Gen Raza Hussain and PTV Managing Director M. Arshad Khan, the Pakistan Television would […]
PESHAWAR – A three-day joint meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) of the Pakistan Federal, Union of Journalists, (PFUJ) and the National Executive Council (NEC) of the All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (APNEC) here demanded of the government the implementation of the Seventh Wage Award in newspaper organizations. The meeting expressed concern over the […]
Letter to the editor… On independence day, PTV marketing team launched a slogan ‘Salam Pakistan’. PTV also arranged a specially transmission under the same slogan. If the idea was to change the image of PTV, I am afraid it didn’t serve the purpose. Mere-age-old slogans with outdated copywriting cannot complete the progressive private channels as […]
NEW DELHI – Indian publishers will exhibit their books in a fair to be held in Lahore next March after Pakistan publishers participated as special guest in weeklong Delhi Book Fair, concluded on August 29. Pakistani books have received great interest and response from the Indian people, displayed at the Fair by 12 publishers and […]
KARACHI – A jury at a mock trial organized by various non-governmental organizations on August 27, demanded that the Hudood Ordinance be repealed immediately. The jury at the mock trail, jointly organized by the Women Action Forum, Aurat Foundation, and the Tehreek-i-Niswan, at the Pakistan American Cultural Centre, said that the vulnerable sections of society […]
KARACHI – Sindh Education Minister Dr Hamida Khuhro has directed the concerned officials to ban physical punishment and use of cane or stick in schools by teachers. An announcement to this effect was made in an official statement in Karachi On August 27. It said that the minister took cognisance of various complaints by people. […]
KARACHI – Two staffers of Geo, an independent TV channel, were manhandled in Karachi on August 27, by officials of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF). Reporter, Mohammad Bin Yousaf, and cameraman, Mehboob Ali, were trying to cover a narcotics raid for their station. They introduced themselves to the ANF officials, who prevented them from filming the […]
ISLAMABAD – As many as 85 children, including 45 new born, are languishing in different jails of the country just because their mothers are undergoing various prison terms. The official record shows that 45 children were born to women prisoners during first six months of the current year. The record was provided to Senate by […]
LAHORE – Over 100 representaÂtives of the publishers Sunday left for India to attend ‘Delhi Book Fair’, which will continue till August 29. As many as ten stalls of Pakistani books have been set up in this fair. President Pakistan publishers forum Syed Hassan Maqbool Zaidi apprised that an internaÂtional book fair will be held […]
MULTAN – Influential people in the Bait Mir Hazar Khan area of Muzaffargarh district are pressurizing the family members of a gang-rape victim to make them withdraw the case while the police have yet to arrest the culprits. The 12-year-old victim had gone to the fields near her home in Mauza Bait Dirayee at night […]
LARKANA – The speakers at a seminar on “Reproductive Health” arranged by PAVHNA, said that 50 percent of diseases in women are the cause of nutrition deficiency and 550 women out of one lakh die during delivery and thus after every 20 minutes mother breathes her last during child birth in Pakistan. They said that […]
KARACHI – Bomb blasts, karo-kari, honour killing and other such crimes against humanity have claimed as many as 765 lives during the January – July period this year in Sindh , according to a report prepared by an NGO, the Aurat Foundation, which said that a big number of the victims appeared to be women. […]
KARACHI – Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on Environment and Alternate Energy Noman Saigal has said that to disseminate information on environmental issues with the judicious use of media, a series of seminars and workshops for media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders will be held to increase the level of awareness. He was […]
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