By Muhammad Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: Following the Farah Dogar example and in continuation of obliging “special daughters” of the country, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) has appointed on contract yet another special daughter in a Grade-18 post for which she will appear in a qualifying test after a few days. The Pemra Chairman […]
By Muhammad Anis ISLAMABAD: The Senate was informed on Friday that the Ministry of Defence had been asked to furnish details about the killing of six women and a female child in an air strike at a house in Hangu. Responding to a point of order on the floor of the House, Minister of State […]
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Human Rights Syed Mumtaz Alam Gillani on Thursday criticised Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for not taking action against human rights violators within his party. He singled out the cases of alleged rapist Munawar Gill and Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor who violated customs rules as examples, adding that it was shameful that five […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday expressed concern over the alarming rise of violence in Sindh highlighted by the latest spate of targeted killings in Karachi. In a press statement, the commission said at a time when the nation’s attention was focused on the counter-insurgency operation in the NWFP and the […]
Staff Report PESHAWAR: Provincial Coordinator Lady Health Workers Programme (LHWP) Dr Ehsanullah Turabi on Sunday said that the lady health workers (LHWs) were providing all basic facilities to the internally displaced women in and outside the relief camps in Mardan, Swabi, Charsadda and Nowshera districts. Dr Ehsan said that 1,193 lady workers in Swabi district, […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is “convinced the cost of the insurgency in the Malakand division has been increased manifold by the hortsightedness and indecisiveness of the non-representative institutions and their policy of appeasing the militants and ‘cohorting’ with them”. A detailed statement, “IDPs and the outcome of military actions” issued by […]
LAHORE: The kidnapping of 500 students of the Razmak Cadet College by the Taliban is hair-raising, says Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. In a press release here on Tuesday, the HRCP said it was yet another barbaric act, which showed without any doubt that the Taliban and their allies are the greatest threat to peace […]
Karachi: Two-year-old Aisha, the daughter of one of the inmates at the women’s prison Karachi, seemed fascinated with the new colourful kit that has arrived at her school and through which her teachers will teach her now onwards. The Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister, Sharmila Faooqui, has announced 1,000 educational kits (Pehla Taleemi Basta) […]
LAHORE: The Naseerabad police have registered a case against a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA on the complaint of a married woman who alleged that he raped her at gunpoint. The police have not arrested the MPA so far. Tahira Parveen of Green Town alleged that a PML-N MPA from Pasrur, Munawar Ali Gill, had raped […]
By: Saadia Qamar KARACHI – The internal strife within Pakistan has left hundreds and thousands of people homeless, coming in the same context, HRCP annual report 2008, ‘State of Human Rights in 2008’ in Pakistan paints a very gory picture of the internally displaced people. From the report alone, can one access the gruesome reality […]
By Nosheen Abbas “She’s dead, she’s gone forever and so is my sibling, a younger brother or sister, someone I’ll never know now … because they are gone … my mother is gone forever.” This is the experience the children of over 500,000 Pakistani mothers undergo every year. The maternal mortality rate in Pakistan has […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q MPA Samina Khawar Hayat has said that the Punjab government, which claims to be the flagbearer of justice, has ignored the cries of Kiran Amjad, who was mutilated, raped and murdered. Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday, accompanied by the family of the late Kiran Amjad, […]
KARACHI – Feedback from the viewers can help people, associated with the entertainment industry, mend their work and motivate them to strive for the best. But, over the years, time has proved that quality of production has been a hallmark of women producers as compared to men. At PTV, Sultana Siddiqui and Saira Kazmi had […]
By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: The government informed the National Assembly on Thursday that Karachi topped in human rights violations committed in the country during 2008 followed by Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. Human Rights Minister Syed Mumtaz Alam Gilani said that 5,140 cases of human rights violations were recoded in the country with Karachi […]
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