Ishtiaq Ahmed Anti-women and anti-minorities prejudices permeate all sections of society and the police and other administrative organs of the state The brutalisation of women in Pakistan is deeply rooted in the macho or martial culture that prevails in the country. However, undoubtedly ever since the late General Zia ul Haq embarked upon his Islamisation […]
ISLAMABAD March 29,2005: Pakistan ranks 120th among 177 countries in terms of social and economic indicators and stands at 64th in gender empowerment measures, with 16.80 per cent female labour force participation and 41.8 per cent female literacy rate. Infant mortality rate in Pakistan is 8.1 per cent while maternal mortality rate is 0.35 per […]
KARACHI,March 29,2005;The cold-blooded murder of two real sisters at Dalbandin, Balochistan has been strongly condemned by the Human Rights lawyer Zia Awan. He said that the administration as well as civil society have miserably failed to safeguard the children’s rights. The lawyer was of the view that Dalbandin killings showed that the children especially female […]
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 3 No 13 Date 3/28/2005 Download ppf newsletter no 13.pdf
QUETTA, March 28,2005: Activists of the four-party Baloch alliance burnt tyres and shopkeepers observed strike in protest against the killing of two sisters in Dalbandin town on Sunday. However, police claimed that the girls’ father had committed the crime. The two girls were killed, their heads shaved off and their faces were badly mutilated. Their […]
NAWABSHAH, March 27,2005: The city president of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Dost Ali Rind, and party activist Aamir Malik surrendered themselves at the A-section police station. They were nominated in FIR registered by Ameer Ali Chandio, the reporter of a Sindhi daily Kawish, for attacking him. Earlier, journalists of the district took out a procession […]
BAHAWALPUR, March 27,2005: An FM radio station will be set up atthe Islamia University Bahawalpur’s mass communication department. This was stated by department chairman Prof Sajjad Piracha while talking to journalists here on Saturday. He said the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority had issued a licence for 10 years to the university. The radio station, […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, March 27,2005: A woman and her cousin were killed and three other relatives were injured in the Majeed Soomro village in the Naushahro Feroze police area on Friday night. Ghulam Hussain Soomro shot dead his wife, Razia, and her cousin Khaliq alias Punhal, 14, and injured brothers-in-law Tufail and Jaleel Soomro and one […]
ISLAMABAD,March 27,2005: Meerwala rape victim Mukhtar Mai on March 26 filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Lahore High Court’s ruling acquitting five of the six suspects. Aitzaz Ahsan, counsel for Mai, said that she was disappointed by the judgment and requested the court overrule it. The petition was filed under Article 184 […]
MEERWALA, March 27,2005: Mukhtar Mai wept for an hour when she learned on March 3 that the men convicted of raping her would walk free. But the worst moment came the next morning when she rode through her village in a taxi. “I could see the happiness in people’s faces as if they were making […]
ISLAMABAD, March 27,2005: Mai Mukhtaran, a national icon for resistance against societal violence, will be a chief guest at the International Conference on Millennium Development Goals, beginning here on March 28. She is present in the capital as a special guest of the Ministry of Women Development and would chair a session of the forthcoming […]
KARACHI, March 27,2005: The telephone exchange, information technology (IT) Hub, computer networking and cabling system of the Karachi University (KU) were gutted on March 26 when a fire broke out in its administration block. According to details, all of a sudden fire erupted in the telephone exchange of the KU, situated within the administration block […]
March 27,2005:Pakistan’s internet connections were cut off for three hours on March 25 evening, disrupting business activity and causing financial losses worth $1 million. The interruption of international telecommunication traffic affected businesses, banks, software companies, internet service providers and call centres, not to mention the country’s credibility in this age of cutthroat global business activity. […]
ISLAMABAD,March 27,2005: The participants of the third IT Minister’s Summit that concluded in Bahrain on March 26 chose Pakistan to host over 30 ministers of information technology from the Asian and Middle Eastern region in early 2006. “Information sharing is just the first step in developing closer relationships between countries,” an official stated quoted Awais […]
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