ISLAMABAD, May 19: More than 120,000 children in Pakistan are employed as industrial workers or earning livelihood as scavengers, according to a report issued by a non-government organization. Out of them, 106,500 rummage through the waste produced by the affluent in big cities while the rest toil in the glass bangles industry in Hyderabad, tanneries […]
KARACHI, May 18: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has termed the amendments in the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) bill passed by the National Assembly on May 16 a blow to freedom of expression. In a statement on May 17, the PFUJ said the government through some of the clauses of the bill […]
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 20 Date 5/16/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 20.pdf
On May 14, 2005 Mujeebur Rehman Cameraman in Reuters news agency and Correspondent of Urdu news paper Daily Khabrain was shot and wounded by some militants in Wana, South Waziristan–Pakistan’s tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Mujeebur Rehman was returning from news coverage with his colleagues in a vehicle when armed men in van opened fire on […]
WANA May 15, 2005: A Pakistani journalist was shot and wounded in a drive-by shooting by three masked gunmen on May 14 in a South Waziristan, officials said. Mujeebur Rehman, who works for Reuters news agency, was wounded in the hand during the attack from a passing taxicab near the town of Wana, local officials […]
PESHAWAR, May 15, 2005:Renowned artist Jamal Shah has formally announced that he is launching a Pashto-language television channel. The announcement was made at a fund-raising function organised on May 13 by the All-Pakistan Women’s Association for the inmates of Darul Aman in Peshawar. Jamal Shah said that the condition of 70 per cent of the […]
WANA May 15, 2005: A Pakistani journalist was shot and wounded in a drive-by shooting by three masked gunmen on May 14 in a South Waziristan, officials said. Mujeebur Rehman, who works for Reuters news agency, was wounded in the hand during the attack from a passing taxicab near the town of Wana, local officials […]
ISLAMABAD , May 15,2005: The government has hired a media adviser to promote the country’s ‘softer image’. The new recruit at the prime minister’s secretariat is Mahreen Khan, who has hosted BBC World’s Question Time Pakistan and Hardtalk Pakistan. The Cambridge and Harvard educated Ms Khan, who came on board about three weeks back, has […]
What happened in Lahore and Islamabad on World Press Freedom Day May 3 cannot be justified. All sane members of society found the baton charging of journalists distasteful. It unnecessarily damaged the image of the Pakistani government, internationally and domestically. All past efforts made to give freedom to the media in Pakistan by a military […]
IF THE recent attacks on women in Wah Cantonment are anything to go by, it seems that with each passing day, women in Pakistan have fewer reasons to feel secure in their own country. In the past week, an unknown group of men, said to be students of a madressah attacked six women at different […]
Date: May 11,2005 Location: Larkana Pakistan Press Foundation organized three-day Journalism Training Workshop for local journalists and women at Larkana, Sindh from 11 to13 May, 2005 with the collaboration of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). Larkana is situated in the Northwest of Sindh province and is an important city of northern Sindh both commercially and politically. […]
KARACHI, May 10, 2005: Despite the attempts of successive governments to resolve the controversy surrounding the Hudood Ordinances, the Madadgaar database cell reports that 82 women and 114 men have been arrested, convicted or acquitted under these in the first four months of the current year. The government is urged to immediately repeal the discriminatory […]
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 19 Date 5/9/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 19.pdf
ISLAMABAD, May 06, 2005:The European Commission (EC) in Islamabad will provide 435,000 Euros to local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to carry out projects for the promotion of human rights and democratization in the country, a press release said. Under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) micro-projects programme, the EC awards annually small grants […]
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