Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 32
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 32 Date 8/8/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 32.pdf
Newsmen denied access to list of candidates
MIRPURKHAS, August 07 2005: The office of the Assistant Election Commissioner (AEC) here has tersely refused to provide a final list of candidates to mediapersons, declaring it as a “top secret document”. The local journalists belonging to print and electronic media had requested AEC Mirza Amir Haider for a final list of candidates in the […]
16 women freed on bail
PESHAWAR, Aug 08 2005: A local court on August 7 released on bail 16 women who had been arrested on the charge of vagrancy on the directives of the Women Crisis Centre. The court presided over by Judicial Magistrate Shah Hussain observed that the officials of the centre and police had not followed the required […]
Protesting teachers arrested, baton charged
KARACHI, August 07 2005: Police baton charged the rally taken out by the Action Committee of Contract Teachers here on August 6. The rally began from Karachi Press Club and tried to march towards Sindh Chief Minister’s (CM) House. The rally participants were demanding of regularisation of commission passed contract teachers in the Sindh province. […]
Dawn sports reporter Ian Fyfe dies
KARACHI, Aug 06 2005: Ian Fyfe, senior sports reporter of Daily Dawn, died in a hospital on August 5 night. He was 58. Mr Fyfe was on his way home on his scooter on June 30 when a car hit him on Sharea Faisal. He was injured and admitted to the Liaquat National Hospital. Doctors […]
ADB project for women in Barani areas
LAHORE, Aug 06 2005: The literary and non-formal basic education department, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank, will launch a project to empower the women of Barani (rain-fed) areas of the Punjab through functional literacy and training. This was stated by Punjab Minister for Literacy and Non-formal Basic Education Husain Jehanian Gardezi at the […]
Funds for journalists’ colony released
LAHORE, Aug 06 2005: The Punjab government has released Rs375.5 million to the Punjab Journalists Housing Foundation for the development of the Lahore Press Club Housing Society. The chief minister has also ordered the completion of the development activities within a year. Now the Lahore Development Authority will invite tenders for the development which will […]
Memorial to South Asian journalists planned in Washington
By Rubina Jabbar A memorial is being set up for South Asian journalists in Washington DC, US. It will display the photographs of journalists from Pakistan and India who lost their lives while discharging their professional duties. The permanent exhibit, to be called Journalists Memorial, will consist of a large glass wall with the names […]
PFUJ concerned over bad health of jailed newsmen
KARACHI, August 05 2005: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Thursday (AUgust 4) expressed deep concern over the deteriorating health condition of the assistant editor of weekly “Friday Special”, Abdul Latif Abu Shamel, in prison, and demanded his immediate release as well as of three other mediamen and a newspaper hawker. The PFUJ also […]
Two papers, presses owned by Ahmadis, seized
Shahnawaz Khan LAHORE, August 06 2005: Jhang police on August 5 confiscated copies of a daily and a monthly paper and sealed two printing presses in Rabwa. The papers belong to Ahmadis. The police also arrested two people including the editor of the daily during an operation. According to police spokesman Munawar Shahid, Jhang SSP […]
Opposition to submit motion in Senate: gang rape case
ISLAMABAD, Aug 04 2005: Opposition members in the Senate have decided to submit an adjournment motion and a call attention notice to discuss the incident of alleged gangrape of a woman by security personnel in Azad Kashmir. Parliamentary secretary of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) Izhar Amrohvi told Dawn that the call […]
Journalists’ rights to be defended: minister
PESHAWAR, Aug 04 2005: NWFP Information Minister Asif Iqbal Daudzai has assured the journalists that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s provincial government will defend and protect their rights and resolve their problems on priority basis. He was talking to a delegation of the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) which called on him at his office on Wednesday […]
Lalamusa press club’s ex-president slain
GUJRAT, August 03 2005: A journalist was shot dead by three assailants along the GT Road in front of the Saddar police station in Lalamusa on (August 1) Monday night. He was a former president of the Lalamusa press club. Reports said Mian Khalid Mahmood, who also ran a real estate centre in Lalamusa, was […]
Concern expressed over rise in crime against women
KARACHI, August 03 2005: The Madadgaar Database Cell reports that until the end of July, there has been a swelling rise in reports that women received burn injuries. This statistic comes despite government claims that legislation to end violence against women is under way and failure of the government to implement its pledge made in […]
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