Zubeida Mustafa FORMER Dawn staffer Zubeida Mustafa has been awarded the International Women’s Media Foundation’s annual Lifetime Achievement Award. The IWMF’s announcement of this year’s winner came on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, which was observed recently. The Lifetime Achievement Award “recognises a woman journalist who has a pioneering spirit and whose determination […]
Ammar Shahbazi Karachi: Academy award winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has teamed up with a multinational soft drink maker to produce and direct a series of six documentaries that will soon be aired across the country. The series of documentaries, titled ‘Ho Yaqeen,’ will narrate the stories of people who have selflessly served their communities and […]
Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: As the families of the missing persons continue their protests, the Ministry of Human Rights has also come into action. In addition to acquiring the power for National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) to investigate the abuses by the armed forces and intelligence agencies, it has urged the army chief, DGs of […]
ISLAMABAD: Amidst the continuing ruckus by the opposition, the National Assembly on Friday passed a landmark bill for the formation of a National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) empowered to investigate cases of human rights infringement, create much-needed awareness, and ultimately make agencies and the army answerable to the body in the context of alleged […]
PESHAWAR: Unidentified militants attacked the girls’ hostel of a private university in the University Town areas with hand grenades while a roadside bomb went off near Kala Mandai on the GT Road on Friday. Police said unidentified attackers fired two handgrenades from a grenade gun that landed in the girls’ hostel of the Gandhara University […]
Salman Siddiqui KARACHI: As coverage of acid victim Fakhra Younus dies down in the media, the chemical market in Karachi continues to thrive on the same street, Napier Road, where she once lived. In response to the easy availability of the product, human rights activists have called for much tougher controls on how it is […]
Karachi: The body of a young woman who was killed allegedly by her family members for marrying against their will was exhumed by a medical team on Wednesday after Malir Judicial Magistrate (6th) Muhammad Aslam Shaikh ordered a fresh inquiry into the murder. The inquiry team, headed by Shaikh, comprises members Dow Medical College professor […]
اسلام آباد: مختلف اداروں سے منسلک صحافیوں اور صحافتی تنظیموں نے میاں عامر اور دنیا نیوز انتظامیہ کے خلاف جاری ہونے والے عدالتی حکم نامے کا خیر مقدم کرتے ہوئے اسے آزادی صحافت کے عالمی دن پر صحافی برادری کے لئے تحفہ قرار دیا ہے۔ پاکستان بھر سے صحافتی تنظیموں،سینیئر جرنلسٹس، انکرپرسن اور انسانی حقوق […]
Islamabad Police on Tuesday arrested 10 outlaws including three women drug pushers and recovered a total of 7.070 kilogram hashish, 31 bottles of wine, weapons and looted items from their possession, a police spokesman said. According to details, the police team arrested four drug pushers including three women. The nabbed persons are identified as Rubina […]
BAHAWALPUR – A four-year-old minor girl was raped by her teenage relative when her parents were not present at house in Mauza Qadir Bakhsh, Musafir Khana, some 10-km away from here on Tuesday. According to detail, Fazal Ahmed, father of four-year-old Iqra informed that he had gone to market for buying foodstuffs while his wife […]
ISLAMABAD – A brother on Tuesday shot dead his sister in the residential area adjacent to railway station in the limits of Golra Police Station here, a police spokesman said. Muhammad Akram reported to the police that his wife Madiha Shaheen, 19, was killed by her brother Iqbal. A police team has been constituted to […]
…EVERY year, hundreds of women from all strata of society face untold suffering … and often death from trauma and physical torture simply because they fail to fulfil purported dowry obligations. A recent case … is that of Yasmin Nuri … who allegedly died of trauma after tolerating a series of abuses from her in-laws […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed concern over the sufferings of the civilian population in Lyari, where law enforcement agencies’ operation against organised crime has been going on for several days. The commission said, “HRCP is not in a position to comment on the nature and utility of the operation […]
Karachi: A man killed his wife and her alleged paramour in their residence in the Shershah police limits on Monday, police said.Rameena, 25, and her paramour Sabirullah, 28, were killed while her another paramour Hazratullah suffered bullet injuries when her husband Roedad Khan returned from work to their Paracha Chowk residence in Lane No. 1 […]
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