HYDERABAD: Business Recorder reporter Qaseem Qureshi was robbed by two unknown armed persons here in the jurisdiction of Latifabad A-Section Police Station on Tuesday night. Qureshi along with his friend Yasir was returning home last night. As he reached near his residence, two armed men who were on motorbike intercepted them on gun point. They […]
KARACHI: To celebrate World Red Cross Red Crescent Day, Pakistan Red Crescent Society (Sindh branch) is holding a training programme on first aid at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday (today). The training institute of the society will select 30 journalists who will attend a three-day course in October. The News
A tangled web it is. We have this uneasy feeling of being in a deep crisis that we cannot easily decipher. One would expect the media to untangle it for the benefit of the nation. But the media itself has become the national enigma. At the same time, other major institutions are faltering and seem […]
GILGIT: A delegation comprising senators intending to probe human rights issues in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) kicked off its three-day discussion in Gilgit on Monday. The nine-member committee is being led by Senator Afrasiab Khattak while senators Farhatullah Babar, Mushahid Hussain, Nasreen Jalil, Talha Mahmood and Zahid Khan are also part of the delegation among others. The […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued notices to the federation, establishment secretary and law and justice secretary on a plea calling for declaring Urdu as the official language of the country. A single-member bench of the IHC, of Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi, resumed hearing of a plea filed by Akram Chaudhry for […]
LAHORE: Zohra Yusuf was re-elected chairperson and Kamran Arif advocate co-chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) here on Sunday. They were re-elected for 2014-16 in the election held in the commission’s annual general meeting. The vice-chairpersons elected are: Tahir Husain Khan advocate (Balochistan), Sher Mohammad Khan advocate (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Nazish Ataullah (Punjab) […]
Gwadar, on Thursday, became the unlikely launching pad for some glad tidings for the nation. At one level, we had a visual message. There they were, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Chief of the Army Staff Raheel Sharif sitting, metaphorically, on the same table. And this civil-military camaraderie, coming in the wake of some […]
ISLAMABAD: Even though it was scheduled at one o clock on a Sunday afternoon, the proverbial lunch hour, the large hall in which the Kargil discussion took place was jam packed. Journalists, diplomats, retired ambassadors, young and old – it seemed as if everyone wanted to hear about Kargil, the Indo-Pak conflict that took place […]
When somebody you have known for 54 years suddenly passes away, it is always a shock. When, however, the person has been in a coma for some considerable time and then pegs down from unnatural causes, it somehow lessens the feeling of distress, for one is forewarned that the worst could happen –– like in […]
KARACHI: Mehnaz Rehman, resident director of Aurat Foundation and leader of the Joint Action Committee (a conglomerate of several civil rights organisations), has said there should be a code of ethics and the media itself should evolve the code. She made the observation while responding to a question at a news conference at the Karachi […]
ISLAMABAD: In 2013, Pakistan became “a more and more dangerous country” for religious minorities, “grew increasingly intolerant of dissent” from journalists and struggled with strategies to tackle threats such as militant extremism and intolerance, according to a report on the ‘State of Human Rights in 2013’. Launched by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) […]
KARACHI: Speakers at a consultative workshop on Wednesday discussed controversies involving the Protection of Pakistan Bill and its implications if it was passed in its present form by the Senate. They unanimously opposed the bill by describing it a ‘draconian law’ and said it violated many articles of the constitution aimed at safeguarding fundamental human […]
Karachi: The reason why journalists are attacked so often and in such a brazen manner is that, essentially, they are soft targets moving about on the front lines. Unarmed and fearless, they are impartial observers of events and gatherers of evidence who are often caught in both, the literal and metaphoric, crossfire. This was stated […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has noted with serious concern that while the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) continues to voice concerns about abduction, torture and extra-judicial killings of its workers, steps have not been taken to investigate the charges. In a statement on Monday, HRCP Chairperson Zohra Yusuf said: “The commission has […]
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