KARACHI: A woman was killed inside her home in Saeedabad, police said. They added Rasheeda Iqbal, 35, was stabbed to death at her residence in Sector 8. The SHO said some relatives visited her home before the killing to settle a family matter where a scuffle broke out. The suspects managed to escape after the […]
ISLAMABAD: The director general (DG) administration of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Monday challenged the Pemra service rules in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). Pemra DG administration Mohammad Asim Khitchi in his petition said that the authority had applied the rules on its employees which were meant for the broadcasters. Pemra DG […]
ABU DHABI: General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received here on Monday Malala Yousufzai, the brave girl who was shot in 2012 in the head for advocating the cause of girls’ education in Swat. Malala, along with members of her […]
HARIPUR:A married woman was abducted and allegedly gang rapped for more than three weeks by five people, the police said on Monday. Sub-inspector Asghar Khan, incharge of investigations at Battal police station, and the Haripur police confirmed recovering twenty seven-year-old Rehana Bibi* during a joint operation from a rented house in Abrar Colony on Sunday. […]
KARACHI: The polio vaccination refusals declined by about 60 per cent in 2012 when compared to 2011, says State of Human Rights in Pakistan, a report compiled by non-governmental Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). But Pakistan continues to be one of the only three countries in the world where polio still exists – the […]
PARACHINAR: A group of women on Sunday called off their weeklong sit-in protest against alleged rigging in NA-37 in Parachinar, Kurram Agency, after getting assurance that recounting of votes would be conducted at the disputed polling stations. Supporters of independent candidate Syed Qaisar Hussain, who remained runner-up in the May 11 elections, had organised the […]
KARACHI: The solution to Balochistan’s problems lies in the provision of basic human rights to its native people, which can only be achieved by pulling out the armed forces and ending the role of secret agencies in the province. These views were expressed by the National Party vice president, Hameed Baloch and Awami Workers Party […]
Politics is not the only passion that should consume all of our energies. No less testing challenges exist beyond the gladiatorial politics, which if taken on reward no less handsomely. For one, our Northern Areas are home to some of the world’s highest peaks – there are 108 peaks above 7,000 metres, including the five […]
KARACHI: President National Committee for Maternal and Neonatal Health (NCMNH) Prof Sadiqua N Jafarey said on Saturday that around 16,000 young women die of pregnancy and childbirth-related complications every year in the country and most of those deaths occur due to excessive blood loss after childbirth. She was addressing a seminar organised by the NCMNH […]
ISLAMABAD: She is 36. It is almost 14 years since her life changed for the worse. What was supposed to be the happiest moment of her life became the nightmare she had never imagined. She was in labour, about to give birth to her first baby. The labour became prolonged. The daai kept saying it […]
One must laud the courage of the female officer who took a principled stance and resisted illegal appointments in the Ministry of Industries and Production. According to a report published in The Express Tribune, a grade 20 officer in the explosives department, questioned the appointment of a person embroiled in corruption cases with NAB, to […]
KARACHI: A Pakistani is among four journalists selected by the Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists to cover the 68th session of the UN General Assembly opening in September, it was announced on Wednesday. She is Maria Kamal, an assistant editor at The News International. The others are: Rose Wangui (Kenya), Leda Balbino (Brazil) and Guslin […]
BEFORE the advent of Islam the position of women was not enviable, neither in Arabia nor in other parts of the world. In many of the older cultures women were looked down upon and treated as inferior beings. The position was much the same in cultures that have made significant contributions to the intellectual and […]
Due to lethargic attitude of the government and absence of implementation of international labour laws in Pakistan, there is about 22 percent female workers of the total women population contributing in gross domestic production and this meagre percentage of female workers is also being forced to work in very pathetic environment. This was observed by […]
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