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HRCP to observe December 10 as day of solidarity with people of Balochistan

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) will commemorate December 10, the International Human Rights Day, in solidarity with the people of Balochistan this year. HRCP offices, human rights activists and volunteers across Pakistan will express solidarity with the people of Balochistan on December 10 in their aspirations for realising their right to life, […]


‘Awareness can help women fight violence’

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a function in the provincial capital on Saturday complained of widespread violence against women and called for better awareness of womenfolk for protection of their constitutional and legal rights. Bytes for All (B4A), Pakistan, a human rights organisation, and Aware Girls, Peshawar, a women rights organisation, jointly organised the function under the […]


Woman killed over marriage

LAHORE: A newly-married woman was shot at and killed by her paternal uncle for ‘honour’ in Bhaggatpura locality of Shadbagh on Saturday. The firing also caused injury to another girl. Shadbagh police said the accused, not yet named, opened fire on his niece Robina who had returned home four months after she eloped with her […]


Main accused in rape case arrested

By: Nisar Ahmad Khan MANSEHRA: Local police on Saturday arrested a man over a girl’s rape and began raids in different areas of Mansehra for the arrest of three other accused. The girl told police that Mohammad Bashir and his three associates kidnapped her from her house last week after spraying her with an intoxicant […]


Women’s bill: will it solve problems?

THE landmark ‘Anti-Women Practices (Criminal Law Amendment) Act, 2011’ bill was finally approved in the National Assembly unanimously. Its laudation is in order for the government for taking an extremely positive step towards women emancipation. In a society that is strictly tied to its cultural and traditional roots, women are treated more as a commodity […]


Veena vows to expose ‘morphing’ magazine: FHM has a history of controversies

By: Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE: Morality and the use of morphing technology to distort or transform: these were the issues a day after actress Veena Malik found herself mired in yet another controversy over her depiction by FHM, a Mumbai-based magazine. In talk with Dawn on Saturday, Ms Malik denied having posed for the magazine as […]


Woman refuses to confess in husband killing case

KARACHI: A 32-year-old woman who has been arrested for killing her husband and attempting to dispose of the body by boiling its parts refused to record her confessional statement before a judicial magistrate on Friday. The woman, Zainab Bibi, and her 22-year-old nephew Zaheer were arrested in Shah Faisal Colony on Nov 24 for killing […]


HRCP calls ban on news channels arbitrary

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday called the banning of BBC and other foreign news channels across Pakistan in the last few days arbitrary, futile and a violation of citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression. A statement issued by the commission on Friday said: “The ‘unofficial’ ban on BBC […]


Denmark supports gender-balanced media

ISLAMABAD: The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) on Friday announced the support for a media development programme, which aims at mainstreaming gender in the Pakistani media industry as well as working towards creating a more balanced report on gender issues in Pakistan. The programme was launched at a ceremony held at Fatima Jinnah Women University […]


16 journalists killed, 47 injured in Pakistan during 2011

KARACHI: At least 16 journalists were killed and 47 injured during the eleven months of 2011 in Pakistan, the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) said in a report on Wednesday. Among the 16 journalists, five journalists were abducted allegedly by the state intelligence agencies, and their bullet-riddled bodies were dumped at roadside. Five […]


Women given right to pass on nationality to children

ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday that children of Emirati women married to foreigners could apply for citizenship once they turned 18, moving closer to giving women the same nationality rights as men. President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahayan decreed that the “children of women citizens married to foreigners should be treated […]


Workshop in Naushehro Feroze for Journalists on Media and Local Governance

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Date: January 6 to 8, 2007 Location: Naushehro Feroze Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), with support from the European Union (EU), organized a three-day training workshop on “Media and Local Governance” for journalists in Naushehro Feroze from January 6 to January 8, 2007. The objectives of the workshop were: 1.To develop the capacity of journalists in […]


Private TV channel’s team attacked

Hazrat Khan Mohamed, Bureau Chief of private TV channel “ATV Khyber News” was injured when a team of their TV channel was attacked by unknown armed men on Monday, August 22, 2011 in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The team was returning after enquiring about the health of Provincial Education Minister Sardar Hussain Babak […]


Pearl-Shahzad Media Training

Date: 09-13 October 2011 Location: Karachi DANIEL PEARL-SALEEM SHAHZAD MEDIA TRAINING PROGRAM SUMMARY Drawing inspiration from Daniel Pearl and Syed Saleem Shahzad — American and Pakistani journalists killed in the line of duty while covering a common war against terror in Pakistan — the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships (AFPF) and the Pakistani Press Foundation (PPF) […]