THE plight of Turbat Girls College is alarming. Here more than 300 students have to sit in one class. This is horrible. Moreover, the college doesn’t have enough lecturers for mathematics and physics. I request the authorities concerned to look into the matter. MULOOK DASHTI Turbat Source: Dawn
HYDERABAD: The government is advised to take stringent measures for safeguarding the rights of women and children by doing away with child labour and discriminatory laws. A girl is discriminated by her family in this patriarchal society from the moment she is born. The Child Right Unit of the Thardeep Rural Development Programme (TRDP) in […]
Pakistan’s fledgling democratic government, under increasing pressure from the military, appeased extremist groups, ignored army abuses and failed to hold those responsible for serious abuses accountable in 2011, New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed. In its 676-page World Report 2012, the HRW said that targeted killings and other attacks on civilians by […]
Myra Imran Islamabad: The Ministry of Human Rights will release a grant of Rs1.07 million for the prisoners languishing in jails of Balochistan despite having served their sentences mainly due to their inability to pay fines. The decision was taken in a meeting of the Administrative Committee of Diyat, Arsh and Daman chaired by the […]
ISLAMABAD: Behind the ‘Memogate’ affair that has embroiled Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States and the civilian government he represents, there is a quixotic accuser named Mansoor Ijaz who seems like a character in a fanciful spy novel of his own design, the Washington Post writes. Ijaz is an American businessman of Pakistani descent […]
LAHORE: Human rights activist Asma Jahangir has expressed serious concern over rampant violation of human rights in Pakistan. In a statement on Monday, Asma said the recovery of a missing person Abdul Saboor’s body from Peshawar was a very alarming indication. She urged the Supreme Court to order production of all the missing persons before […]
GENDER inequality is a great problem these days in the world, most importantly in developing and least developed countries. Probably a woman-fearing man living in some southern part of Sindh recently said: “Women need only to work in their homes; they do not need to go out and do a job”. This is the thinking […]
KARACHI: The United Nation’s former expert adviser on human rights and Chairman of The Ansar Burney Trust International, Ansar Burney, is receiving life threats in Pakistan. He said, “Threats or any dirty act as it was also in the past, cannot stop me from my noble cause for peace, human rights, anti-human trafficking drive, anti-slavery […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the assassination of journalist Mukarram Khan Atif in Charsadda and expressed concern that journalists’ killings have continued across the country despite assurances by the authorities. “It is exceedingly unfortunate that despite repeated assurances by the government to protect journalists, Mukarram Khan Atif, a senior journalist […]
QILA SAIFULLAH: Unknown armed men gunned down a woman and her alleged paramour on suspicion of Siakari here on Sunday. According to Levies Force, the woman and her alleged paramour Ainuddin were shot dead by armed assailants on allegation of having illicit relations. They managed to escape from the scene after committing the crime. The […]
SUKKUR: A man shot dead 20-year-old Farida Bhutto and her young paramour Babu Lashari, accusing them of indulging in illicit relations. The incident took place on Sunday in village Khan Muhammad Khan Jakhrani in the limits of Kandhkot police. The accused later managed to escape. Police shifted both the bodies to a local hospital but […]
SUKKUR: A man shot dead 20-year-old Farida Bhutto and her young paramour Babu Lashari, accusing them of indulging in illicit relations. The incident took place on Sunday in village Khan Muhammad Khan Jakhrani in the limits of Kandhkot police. The accused later managed to escape. Police shifted both the bodies to a local hospital but […]
KARACHI: A 35-year-old woman was allegedly strangled by her husband in a Quaidabad locality on Sunday, police said. A duty officer at the Quaidabad police station said that the body of Islam Khatoon was found in a washroom of the house in Labour Colony. The victim’s brother Shahzaib claimed that his sister had been strangled […]
Jawed Naqvi JAIPUR (India): Celebrated Pakistani women writers — historian Ayesha Jalal and social activist Fatima Bhutto — were mobbed, applauded and loved at the Jaipur Literary Festival here on Sunday where they canvassed support for friendlier ties with India and pooh-poohed the prospects of a military coup in their country. Clearly upstaging the top-billed […]
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