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Journalist booked under Official Secrets Act

KARACHI, February 07,2005:The Mithadar police late on Saturday registered a case of violating the Official Secrets Act against Afzal Nadeem, senior reporter of the Daily Awam. The FIR was lodged under section 3/5 of the Act for publishing a news item based upon a letter of the National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of the Federal […]


Senior Journalist passes away

KARACHI ,February 06,2005: Senior journalist and Editor (editorial) in daily Jang, Nizam Siddiqui passed away on Saturday at a local hospital after protracted illness. He was laid to rest at Paposhnagar graveyard. Nizam Siddiqui, 68, was affiliated with various newspapers and Radio Pakistan for a long period. He also served in Chinese news agency and […]


Violence against children rise alarmingly

ISLAMABAD,February 06,2005: Violence against children is rapidly increasing in Pakistan and one clear example of this phenomenon is that since January 2004, 1,684 different cases of physical and sexual violence have been reported in the print media. The data showed that out of total 1,684 cases, 694 cases of child murdered including boys and girls, […]


Women development activities in NWFP reviewed

PESHAWAR,February 06,2005:The NWFP Minister for Social Welfare and Women Development Kashif Azam and MPA Javed Khan called on Begum Shamim Iftikhar, wife of the NWFP Governor at Governor’s House here on Saturday. They discussed maters pertaining to the social welfare and women development activities in the province. The Minister and MPA appreciated the efforts and […]


Action plan focuses on welfare of rural women

KARACHI,February 05,2005: President Pervez Musharraf has given a sum of Rs100 million for a fund created by the federal women development ministry for social uplift and economic empowerment of rural women. This was disclosed at the Beijing Plus 10 Consultative Conference, jointly organized by Sindh government and Sindh-based non-governmental organization here on Friday. Addressing the […]


Alarming rise in crimes against women: HRCP

ISLAMABAD, February 04,2005: Despite official commitments to check “honour killing, domestic violence and other crimes against women” the ground realities for most women are different. On the contrary, an increased number of women faced violence or threat of violence, and the authorities failed to provide them protection. This is a stark reality presented in the […]


PEMRA gives permission for FM radio

KARACHI, February 02,2005: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority on Tuesday allowed the Mass Communication Department of Karachi University to establish its own FM Radio Station for “education and entertainment” purposes. However, this channel would solely be used for educational purposes like training for preparation of radio programmes such as interviews, dramas, advertisements but it […]


HRCP paints dismal picture of human rights situation in 2004

ISLAMABAD, February 01,2005: A premier independent human rights body has painted a dismal picture of human rights situation in Pakistan during last year and called for government steps and people’s participation in decision-making to improve it. It also expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order situation, rise in sectarian violence and violation of basic […]


Journalist Ghulam Ali passes away

KARACHI, February 01,2005: Senior journalist and the city’s leading crime reporter Ghulam Ali Khoja died on Tuesday night after protracted illness. He was 65. His funeral prayers will be held at Bara Imambargah, near the Khoja Masjid in Kharadar, after Zuhar prayer on Wednesday and he will be buried in the Hussaini Bagh No. 2, […]


PPL confirms lady doctor’s rape in Sui

ISLAMABAD,February 02,2005: The Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) on Tuesday conceded before the Senate Committee that a lady doctor was molested in Sui hospital. PPL Managing-Director SM Raza gave a detailed presentation on the situation in Sui to the Senate Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources held under the chairmanship of Senator Syed Dilawar Abbas. […]


Government has failed to curb religious strife: HRCP

ISLAMABAD, February 02 2005: A report on the state of human rights in Pakistan during the last year described the period as of “sectarian madness” and said it had more victims of religious terrorism to mourn than any other year in the past. The sectarian violence across the country increased with some of the worse […]


Computerisation in government sector below one percent: Microsoft

KARACHI,February 01,2005: Microsoft company will launch Urdu office and windows to involve maximum people in the information technology (IT) sector, but the company expressed extreme disappointment that the computerisation in government sector was still below one percent. Country manager Microsoft Jawwad Rehman told Business Recorder on Monday that despite continues effort by the high-ups in […]


Attack on newspaper offices condemned

KARACHI, February 01,2005: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has condemned the Friday night attack on the offices of Jang and Geo Television, terming it an assault on freedom of the press. APNS general secretary Muhammad Aslam Kazi, in a statement issued here on Monday, expressed concern over what he called the revived phenomenon of […]


Govt assails attack on Jang, Geo offices

ISLAMABAD ,February 1, 2005: The government on Monday held out an assurance that attacking media offices was neither its policy and nor was it behind the heinous and uncalled for armed attack on the Jang Group of Newspapers and the offices of Geo television in Karachi. It is condemnable and tolerance has to be promoted […]