KARACHI, August 03 2005: Some 1,138 people were murdered in Karachi, 26 were raped or sodomized, while 122 committed suicide during June 2004-05, says a report of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Sindh. Around 438 people, including 250 women, 146 men and 42 minors were sacrificed in the ‘name’ of Karo-Kari in Sindh. Out […]
ISLAMABAD, August 02 2005: The government is all set to launch second phase of information technology (IT) awareness project in northern areas (NAs) for promotion of IT in the country. “A sum of Rs 13 million has been approved for the initial phase. The project was handed over to Comsats, a subsidiary of ministry of […]
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 31 Date 8/1/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 31.pdf
WASHINGTON, July 31 2005: The United States has allocated $1.4 million to promote human rights, rule of law and democracy in Pakistan, including helping media outlets to amplify citizens’ demand for reforms. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour has announced that funds would be issued under three different heads to Pakistan as part […]
By Waseem Ahmad Shah PESHAWAR, July 30 2005: A teenage girl has accused two employees of a government-run women’s crisis centre of sexually abusing its inmates and said she left the shelter to save herself from the notorious men. The 14-year-old destitute from Bannu, Safia, who escaped from the women’s crisis centre on July 13, […]
ISLAMABAD, July 29 2005: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on July 28 urged journalists to make constructive criticism against the government and play an active role in safeguarding the country’s interests. He was speaking at a ceremony at Prime Minster’s House to distribute cheques among relatives of two journalists who were killed by militants in the […]
PESHAWAR, July 27 2005: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Ijaz-ul-Haq on Tuesday (July 26) said the bill on Karo Kari would help prevent honour killing in the country. Speaking at a seminar organised by Ministry of Women Development on new laws on honour killing and local government here, he said that Islam did not permit […]
VEHARI, July 27 2005: Judicial magistrate Abdur Rehman Bodla who is conducting judicial inquiry into alleged stitching of lips of a prisoner by police completed recording of statements by witnesses on July 26. After completing recording of statements, the inquiry officer also heard arguments of some advocates, including Ehtashamul Haq Siddiqui and Lubna Ehtasham, who […]
FAISALABAD, July 27 2005: Police seized objectionable material during raids on a number of printing presses and offices of publishers and arrested their owners on the charges of creating religious hatred among the people. Police conducted raids on the information got from the arrested activists of banned militant organizations. The motive behind the crackdown was […]
On July 23, unknown persons hurled three home-made bombs into the home of Khursheed Ahmed, Bureau Chief of daily Khabrain in the city of Gilgit, capital city of the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Mr. Ahmed is also the President of Gilgit Press Club. Two of the three bombs went off while third one could not […]
SHIKARPUR, July 26 2005: A man and a woman were killed on pretext of karo-kari in Abdul Rehman Shar village, Garhi Yasin taluka, on Sunday (July 24) evening. One Mubarak Shar attempted to kill his sister-in-law Ms Ajeeban, wife of his brother Nazro Shar and his relative Aijaz Shar, when he saw them in a […]
LAHORE, July 26 2005: Asian Development Bank (ADB) would help the government of Pakistan to implement gender-related reforms to improve the status of women in the country, through a technical assistance (TA) grant package amounting to 4.57 million dollars. According to sources here on July 24, the TA was partly financed by 100,000 dollars from […]
ISLAMABAD, July 26 2005: Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari on Monday (July 25) said an overland fibre optic link through India would become operational within a few weeks while another connectivity channel was coming up by October. Speaking at the concluding ceremony of 15th All-Pakistan Software Competition and exhibition held under […]
ISLAMABAD, July 26 2005: The government has decided to launch two IT educational channels for the promotion of information technology in the country. “The channels will be on air in the mid of July next year and will start its test transmission from Lahore in next couple of months. The Virtual University has given the […]
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