The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation of journalists representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has today backed its affiliate in Pakistan, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in their condemnation of the arrest of two journalists in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday, November 8. Journalist and well-known Urdu poet Farhat Abbas Shah and […]
KARACHI – Around 64 women lodged in four government-run Darul Amans (shelter homes) in Sindh are waiting since long for court verdicts to decide their fates, as the right activists claim that these inmates were not being treated well by the staff concerned. In majority of the cases, the women had to leave their homes […]
KARACHI – Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is holding a seminar on “Fight obesity – prevent diabetes” tomorrow (Thursday; November 11, 2004) at its Vicky Zeitlin Media Library ay 11:30 am. It is being held in connection with the WHO – supported World Diabetes Day fall on November 14 every year, the theme of which for […]
KARACHI – The Sindh High Court directed the Gambat police on Monday to register a case against eight people accused by a girl of trying to kill her after declaring her ‘kari’. School teacher Rozeena Ujjan submitted through her counsel, Shafqat Shah Masoomi, that she fled her native village Sukhwan in Gambat police station, Khairpur […]
THATTA – The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), in coordination with community-based organizations (CBOs), has started work on about 100 literacy resource centres in the district, particularly in the coastal belt, to impart basic education to women. This was informed by NCHD general-manager Hafeezur Rehman Abbasi while delivering a lecture to activists of CBOs […]
PESHAWAR – The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is launching a state-of-the-art telephone service next year, a senior official told Dawn in Peshawar November 7. The Wireless Local Loop (WLL) telephone service would be made available through 20 private companies in the country in the first quarter of the year, said Nisar Ahmad Awan, regional director […]
LANDI KOTAL – An organization of the Sheikhmalkhel tribe in Bara on November 6, thrashed a local journalist and put him in a private jail in the Bar Qambarkhel area, sources said. The Sheikhmalkhel tribe accused Qazi Rauf, a reporter of Daily Express, of misreporting about the activities of their organization. The Sheikhmalkhels and a […]
PESHAWAR – The murder of a minor in the Mardan district a few days ago following a number of similar incidents point to a growing tendency of child abuse in society. Campaigners for the rights of children point out that in most of the incidents children were killed when criminals fail to have their way. […]
KARACHI – Leading industrialist, philanthropist and former chairman of the PPI news agency Latif E. Jamal, who died on Friday night , was laid to rest in his family graveyard at Karachi’s Mewashah on Saturday. Just a week before his death, Mr Jamal had handed over a building and land for a campus to the […]
KARACHI – State Minister for Information Ms Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli on November 6, evening called for making PTV a low-cost and high-efficiency channel by maintaining merit in its productions and telecast. The plays produced under partnership of PTV and private sector would be telecast on PTV’s Prime Time Channel after Eidul Fitr. She acknowledged that […]
THATTA – The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), in coordination with community-based organizations (CBOs), has started work on about 100 literacy resource centres in the district, particularly in the coastal belt, to impart basic education to women. This was informed by NCHD general-manager Hafeezur Rehman Abbasi while delivering a lecture to activists of CBOs […]
HYDERABAD – Leaders of the Aurt Azaad, an organization working for rights of women, has condemned alleged sexual harassment of women working in NGOs and indifferent attitude of officials. In a joint statement issued here on Friday, noted writers and women rights activists Amar Sindhu, Attiya Dawood, Gul Badan Javed Mirza, Irfana and Rehana Channar […]
KARACHI – Federal Minister for Information Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on November 6, evening the government was ready to give licences to more private TV channels. However, he emphasised seriousness and hard work by private channels for their survival and growth. “If 100 channels apply, I would give the permission, but only those channels shall […]
KARACHI – Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on November 6, evening that the government was ready to issue licences to more private TV channels, adding that hard work was necessary to ensure their survival and growth. Speaking at the launch party of seven new PTV plays produced in conjunction with the private sector, […]
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