KARACHI: Speakers at the seventh death anniversary of poet and journalist Anwer Pirzado on Tuesday discussed his multifaceted personality and recalled how he depicted a story which haphazardly began in the middle and ended with `a complete sense of incompletion`. `He was a lover…of Sindh, the Indus and (Shah Abdul Latif) Bhital. He was a […]
LAHORE: The Child Rights Movement (CRM) Punjab, along with numbers of different civil society organisations staged a protest demonstration outside Lahore Press Club on Tuesday and demanded ban on child domestic labour in the city as well as across the province. The protesters were carrying banners and placards inscribed with different slogans against killings of […]
PESHAWAR: A missing Hindu female schoolteacher told a local judicial magistrate on Monday after recovery from Bahawalpur that her kidnapper had forced her to marry him after changing her faith and kept her unconscious for most of the time during captivity on refusal. Magistrate Mohammad Fayyaz Khan ordered the local police to conduct medical examination […]
Glowing tributes were paid to freedom fighter Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar at a seminar held on Saturday to mark Johar Day. Speaking on the occasion, Engr Muhammad Adil Usman, great grandson of Muhammad Ali Johar and chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology, said the way to success and glory could only […]
PESHAWAR: In yet another major set back to the polio programme, the Fata Secretariat lands in trouble for publicising fatwa (religious decree) of Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, in the local media through paid advertisements without the permission and knowledge of its administrator Maulana Samiul Haq. Maulana Yusuf Shah, a spokesman of Maulana Samiul Haq, […]
KARACHI: “There were five of them,” she said while holding her young child with one arm and hiding her face with the other. That’s how the young mother of three, and a victim of gang-rape, started narrating her ordeal at a press conference called at the Karachi Press Club by the Human Rights Commission of […]
KARACHI: Director of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Prof Adibul Hasan Rizvi has stressed the need for ensuring provision of best health-care and educational facilities to the poor sections of the society. Addressing a ceremony held to pay tribute to noted writer Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo for his services, he said that free health-care […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has addressed around 30,912 consumers complaints which are almost 98 percent of the total complaints received against telecom operators during 2012-13. The authority received 31,266 complaints against telecom operators including Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs), Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Local Loops, Long Distance Internationals (LDIs), Wireless Local Loop (WLL), […]
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has congratulated the newly-elected president of Peshawar Press Club and other members of the Cabinet-elect and governing body for their success in the annual elections of the press club. In his message of felicitation to the newly elected president and his cabinet, he termed the success of Nasir […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India top the list of journalists killed in South Asia in 2013.As many as 22 journalists were killed in this calendar year in connection with their professional duties. Pakistan retained its first position this year also with 10 assassinations followed by India (8), Afghanistan (3) and Bangladesh (1). A media freedom roundup […]
BHURBAN: President Mamnoon Hussain on Sunday urged media to continue its responsibility for dealing effectively with terrorism and extremism besides promoting peace ventures in the region. Addressing the participants of a conference titled ‘Media and Extremist Narrative’ held under the auspices of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) here, he cautioned the media to remain […]
Karachi: The national postal service, Pakistan Post, is releasing a commemorative postage stamp of Rs 10 denomination in the ‘Poets of Pakistan’ series, in tribute of legendary poetess Parveen Shakir. The stamp has been designed by Adil Salahuddin (Sitara-e-Imtiaz/Pride of Performance) and printed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation, Karachi. The commemorative postage stamp will be […]
Sir: Indian movies have always been a source of entertainment for Pakistanis but we do not realise how badly they are affecting our youngsters’ minds. Most of the Bollywood movies openly show various drugs and tobacco use as a socially acceptable thing and our youngsters end up admiring Indian actors consuming alcohol and smoking. Recently, […]
LAHORE: The participants at a panel discussion organised by South Asia Partnership (SAP)-Pakistan with members of Punjab Assembly and civil society organisations stressed the need of implementing constitutional and international guarantees protecting the rights of religious minorities. Panel discussion was held at a local hotel where member National Commission on Status of Women Tanveer Jahan, […]
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