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Rally held for implementation of wage award

KARACHI – Journalists and press workers belonging to different newspapers staged a peaceful rally in front of the Chief Minister’s House on December 14, evening to urge the government to implement the Seventh Wage Board award. Carrying banners and placards in support of their demands, they raised slogans against newspapers owners for delaying the implementation […]


Husband kills father-in-law, kidnaps wife

DADU – Domestic violence turned into horrible incident on December 15 when a woman was kidnapped while her father was killed and brother injured in the premises of Family Court. Report said that Ms Rubina Qambrani, 20, arrived Family Court along with her father Deen Muhammad and brother Riaz Qambrani for getting divorce from her […]


APNS award recipients

ISLAMABAD – Journalists and advertisement agencies who won the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) awards for best performance received their awards at a ceremony in Islamabad on December 13. The APNS decided to start giving Akhbar Dost awards to agencies that have won highest number of business awards during the last two decades, 1982-2002. The […]


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Women prisoners’ children suffering

PESHAWAR – A majority of women prisoners are forced to keep their children with them due to lack of support from their families. According to official figures more than 80 children are living in prisons with their mothers. A woman from Nowshera, who was convicted of drug-trafficking, is in jail with her three daughters below […]


Women prisoners’ children suffering

PESHAWAR – A majority of women prisoners are forced to keep their children with them due to lack of support from their families. According to official figures more than 80 children are living in prisons with their mothers. A woman from Nowshera, who was convicted of drug-trafficking, is in jail with her three daughters below […]


40 detained in rape of minor girls

TOBA TEK SINGH – Gojra city police have detained 40 youth of the town to interrogate them into the alleged rape of five primary schoolgirls. The minor girls were kidnapped and assaulted by unknown people in five different cases in November. An investigation team has been set up by the DPO consisting of Gojra ASP, […]


Workshop on Better Strategy with Media

JEKABABAD — Pakistan Press Foundation held a one day workshop for NGO’s on Better Strategy with Media on December 13. Musavir Shahid, coordinator PPF, Mumtaz Ali Mangreo, Media Coordinator PPF, Jan Oodhano, media coordinator Sole Society Organization, were instructors of the workshop. Source: PPF Date:12/14/2004


Seminar on Human Rights and Role of Media.

LARKANA — Pakistan Press Foundation conducted a one day seminar on Human Rights and Role of Media on December 13. Speaking at the occasion Abdul Razzak Quraishi, the chief guest, said print media has played a role of a crusader against human rights violation in the country. Dr. Jamshed Abro, Chairman Public Saftey Commission held […]


Three killed over karo-kari

SUKKUR – A man and a woman were killed by armed men after being dubbed as karo and kari in the Khanpur Mahar village of Ghotki district on December 12. Aasia, wife of Wahab Pitafi, was gunned down at her house after which the armed men went to the house of Rano Pitafi and shot […]


Police fail to recover newsman’s son

SHEIKHUPURA – The police have failed to find any clue to the son of Sadiq Malik, a Muridke correspondent of an English daily, who had disappeared from his office on November 2. Talking to newsmen here, Mr Malik said that his son Majeed Sadiq was working in Askari Leasing Auto Finance Company, Gujrat. He said […]


Media plays positive role against HR violations

LARKANA — Media has played positive role against human rights violation in Sindh and journalists should be appreciated to keep this mission continue, said District Coordination Officer (DCO) Abdul Razzak Qureshi while talking in a seminar on “Human Rights and Role of the Media” organized by the Pakistan Press Foundation in Karachi on December 12. […]


Call for right of appeal against FCR

LANDI KOTAL – The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Khyber Agency chapter, on December 12, has demanded amendment to the Constitution giving tribesmen the right of appeal in superior courts of the country against punishments given under the Frontier Crimes Regulations. The demand was made at a one-day consultation meeting on the FCR held in […]


Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 2 No 48

Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 2 No 48 Date 12/13/2004 Download ppf newsletter no 48.pdf


Documentary film on Kashmir screened

KARACHI – Renowned scholar and educationist Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy earned accolades for his well-produced documentary film, titled Crossing the lines – Kashmir, Pakistan, India, which was screened on May 11 by the Pakistan Peace Coalition in collaboration with the Eqbal Ahmed Foundation at the auditorium of the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs. While the movie […]