• July 7, 2013
• General News

LAHORE: “Neither the parliament nor the judiciary can legitimise unconstitutional acts of dictators and their collaborators,” a joint communique following a seminar organised by Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) and Lahore Press Club on Saturday reads. Lawyers, journalists, politicians and human rights activists at the seminar demanded accountability of all those who subverted, abrogated […]

• July 6, 2013
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The new government, trying to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned by international organisations as inhuman and retrograde. Up to 8,000 people languish on death row in dozens of Pakistan’s notoriously overcrowded and violent prisons. Once a moratorium is […]

• July 5, 2013
• General News

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should launch initiatives for providing protection to street children who are among the most vulnerable part of population. This was stated by programme manger of the Society for Protection of Rights of the Child, Imran Takkar, during a certificate awarding ceremony for street children. According to a Sparc press release […]

• July 3, 2013
• General News

By: Iqtidar Gilani LAHORE: Speakers at a forum titled ‘Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy’ have stressed the need for focusing on education, provision of basic needs to the masses and creating awareness about the role of family planning in improvement of mother-child health. Quoting data given by the Population Welfare Department, media personalities opined that illiteracy, unemployment […]

• July 3, 2013
• General News

LAHORE: On the appeal of Sunni Ittehad Council Chairman Sahibzada Hamid Raza, 50 ulema have issued a joint fatwa, calling terrorism and suicide attacks haram (forbidden) in Islam. After the recent incidents of terrorism in Nanga Parbat, Quetta and Peshawar, the ulema declared that a suicide attack was haram (forbidden) in Islam and murder of […]

• July 3, 2013
• General News

The EU Ambassador Lars-Gunnar Wigemark has said that to become a GSP+ beneficiary, it is crucial that Pakistan eliminates child and bonded labour especially its worst forms. Addressing a public awareness event for the European Union-funded project Combating Abusive Child Labour CACL-II here, he also stressed “Linking child labour in Pakistan with preferential trade access […]

• July 3, 2013
• General News

Rawalpindi: Eminent Islamic scholar and columnist Dr Aamir Liaqat Hussain has said, “In order to stem terrorism, Ulema have not fulfilled their responsibilities. It would be far from truth to say that there is no sectarianism. We will have to destroy all the objectionable material in the country including the one on the social websites. […]

• July 3, 2013
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Everyday around 115 million children are exposed to hazardous work around the globe, including 15.5 million children who are engaged in domestic work outside their own homes, according to the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO). While linking child labour in Pakistan with preferential trade access to the EU, it has been emphasised the […]

• July 1, 2013
• General News

By: ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI PESHAWAR: There is no competent authority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to properly monitor the sale of chemicals like acids, which, because of their easy availability, are sometimes misused by disgruntled people in acid attacks, mostly on women. “A litre of hydrochloric acid is available for as low as Rs50 and it can be […]

• July 1, 2013
• General News

SUKKUR: A young Hindu girl went missing after she left her home for a temple in Shah Ghazi locality in Jacobabad on Sunday. The girl’s relatives informed police who raided a house owned by one Haq Nawaz Thaheem in Dangar locality to recover Deepa Kumari, daughter of a Mukesh Kumar, a shopkeeper, but found it […]

• July 1, 2013
• General News

According to the 2012 State of Pakistan’s Children report released by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), 25 million children are out of school, 12 million are engaged in labour while around 618 newborn babies die every day in the country. No wonder then that SPARC has termed the state […]

• July 1, 2013
• General News

By: Ramzan Chandio KARACHI: Women may be left out of land rights at the time o f land reforms as they have no records of land, this was established at a seminar on ‘Land Reforms in Pakistan: A Women Peasant Aspect’ on Sunday. Agriculturists, land reforms and development experts have said that despite three times […]

• July 1, 2013
• General News

Karachi: The family of Dr Aafia Siddiqui here Sunday welcomed the announcement of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ahmed regarding formation of a government committee to ensure early release and repatriation of the Pakistani mother from the United States of America. Aafia Movement Pakistan leader Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, greeting the government move, said that this government […]

• July 1, 2013
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is organizing an event today at the Pak China Friendship Centre where the media products of the selected students of Mass Communication from seven national universities would be launched. The media products included research studies, video documentary and short films on various aspects of child labour. Interesting stage and […]