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 […]
LAKKI MARWAT: Miscreants early on Saturday blew up two primary schools in a remote Paharkhel Pakka village near the Frontier Region, Lakki Marwat. A local official said miscreants had planted homemade bombs to explode the two buildings. He said the personnel of law-enforcement agencies reached the area soon after the blasts and launched a search […]
By: Syed Hasan Ali KARACHI: Nearly 100 per cent increase has been witnessed in the number of killings across the city during the first five months of the year as compared to last year’s corresponding period, it emerged on Saturday. While 750 people had been killed between January and May last year, as many as […]
By: SUHAIL KAKAKHEL NOWSHERA: Local and international humanitarian organisations suspended work at the Jalozai camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) on Friday after intelligence agencies issued a warning about a bomb attack at the place, security and aid agencies’ officials said. A representative of an international NGO, who requested not to be identified, told Dawn […]
KARACHI: Pakistan ranks the second with the most out-of-school children in the world with only Nigeria ahead of it, said a child rights body on Thursday. In its annual report titled ‘The state of Pakistan’s children 2012’, the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) said about one fourth of the […]
PRAGUE: A video message on Wednesday purporting to show two Czech women hostages in Pakistan demanded the release of a Pakistani national jailed in the United States in return for their freedom. Antonie Chrastecka and Hana Humpalova, both 24, were kidnapped in March. They speak in the video message, against a background of photographs of […]
QUETTA: Member Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Asma Jhangir on Tuesday asked the militant groups to trust the incumbent political government giving them specific time for the resolution of issues of the province of Balochistan. Addressing a press conference here at local hotel, she said that law and order situation in the province was […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Monday condemned the murder of 10 foreign climbers and at least one Pakistani citizen in Gilgit-Baltistan and called it a serious crisis in a region which could do without further aggravation. In a statement, the commission said: “The killing of the foreign mountaineers in Gilgit-Baltistan raises very […]
KARACHI: Sindh govt has decided to extend all relevant benefits of labour laws to the workers associated with agriculture sector and fisheries respectively. Workers associated with the two sectors are soon to be recognised as formal workers, through a policy document that would also be made part of the provincial legislation. He said a draft […]
By: Waseem Ashraf GUJRAT: A polio team comprising two lady health workers came under attack when a couple subjected them to severe torture for not attending to them exclusively in Karimpura locality on Church Road in the limits of Lalamusa City police station on Monday. Reports said that LHWs Bashir Fatima and Farzana Kausar knocked […]
KARACHI: The director of an award-winning film, Seedlings or Lamha, and his female friend were on Sunday remanded in police custody till June 28 for their alleged involvement in a murder case. Mansoor Mujahid, who directed Seedlings, and his friend Anab, have been booked and arrested for allegedly killing their friend, Faisal Nabi, in an […]
By: Maleeha Hamid Siddiqui KARACHI: Media Manzar, a book by senior journalist and poet Mahmood Shaam, was launched at the Karachi Arts Council on Tuesday. Speakers at the launch said the book touched upon diverse media-related perspectives and redefined the media’s role in the saturated electronic and print media market. “We are becoming media consumers […]
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab has reported the second polio case this year. Earlier this year, a three-year-old girl had tested positive for polio in the Essakhel area of Mianwali district and now another girl from the province has been found to be suffering from the crippling virus. According to an official at the Prime Minister’s Monitoring […]
SARGODHA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Nighat Sheikh slapped a bus hostess for not serving water swiftly, a private TV channel reported on Sunday, after which Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif took notice of the incident. The MPA, travelling by a private bus from Islamabad to Lahore, asked bus hostess Iqra Nawaz to bring her water. […]
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