By: Kaswar Klasra ISLAMABAD: Failing to get allotment of a government residence, a joint secretary of federal ministry of petroleum & natural resources threatened the lady state officer of ministry of housing and works of dire consequences that prompted the desperate lady to lodge a complaint with Kohsar police station against the former. According to […]
GILGIT: An eight-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by two men in Olding area of Skardu district, police said. SP Skardu Ejaz Haider told Dawn on phone on Tuesday that the incident occurred five days ago. He said police had arrested one accused and search was on for nabbing the other. He said a case was […]
By: Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: Renowned novelist Abdullah Hussain, who had disassociated himself from the Pakistan Academy of Letters 17 years ago, accepted the literary body’s invitation to meet his fans on Tuesday. The event was arranged by the PAL to honour the renowned writer and novelist, and discussed his impressive contributions to Urdu literature. Dressed […]
LAHORE: The writers of South Asian Peace Charter, led by Radha Kumar, director general of the Delhi Policy Group, visited on Monday the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) for interaction with women activists. The writers, drawn from all South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) have prepared a draft […]
Islamabad: Out of nearly 75,000 prisoners in different jails of the country, around 1,100 were women, reported Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. “The misery of these women prisoner is their families no longer cared for them or stay in contact with them rather than pursuing their cases due to social stigma”, said a official of […]
CHARSADDA: The militants damaged a girls’ school at Risaldar Killay in the limits of Sardheri Police Station on Saturday night.It was learnt that explo-sive devices planted by suspected militants at the Government Primary School at Risaldar Killay went off at night, causing damage to boundary wall and two rooms in the school.After the explosion, the […]
By: TALLAT AZIM The first 25 members of the Nawaz Sharif cabinet have been sworn in. It is noticeable that women are missing. The two berths given to them have as yet not been allocated portfolios. It is very much a man’s world among the PML-N wallahs. I remember I was once at a private […]
LAHORE: A 24-year-old woman was strangled to death by her husband in South Cantt police area over a domestic dispute, while five people including two women were killed in different incidents across the city on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Tahira Bibi wife of Tahir ul Hussan, resident of Bhatta Chowk. Police said that […]
By: ZULFIQAR AHMAD & NAVEED BUTT The distribution of reserved seats for women in the National Assembly to wives, daughters, or relatives of top party stalwarts while ignoring women at the grass-roots level, has badly tarnished the image of major political parties. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) which had bagged 31 seats reserved for women bestowed […]
Women rights have been ignored due to weak implementation of relevant laws and lack of sufficient legislation, said speakers at a consultative dialogue here on Saturday. The government has made little progress for making legislation for protection of women rights over the past few years, while a few laws were promulgated but implementation was remained […]
UBAURO: The family of 17-year-old Safia Solangi went on hunger strike in the scorching heat on Saturday, to demand her safe return from their tribe’s chieftain. Safia’s father Muhammad Murad and other family members hailing from Sher Muhammad Solangi village set up their hunger strike camp in Ubauro. According to Murad, Safia married Abdul Shakoor […]
RAWALPINDI: Legal expert Babar Sattar Advocate has said that capital punishment is not something pleasant. To send a man to gallows should give us a food for thought. We need to learn a lesson from the Shahzeb murder case. The matter should be welcomed to the extent that a family got justice, but simultaneously it […]
By: Dr Farzana Bari The resignation of Fauzia Kasuri, a veteran leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), from the party has revitalised the controversies surrounding quota politics in Pakistan. The PTI’s decision to nominate Dr Shireen Mazari and Munazza Hasan on the reserved seats in the National Assembly appears to be a violation of merit. […]
By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: With cloud defining the future of information technology, world’s leading software companies seem to have stepped up campaigns to educate consumers and businesses about the benefits of cloud services. Microsoft Pakistan is one of them. Not long after it held a seminar about a private cloud service, the software giant held […]
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