ISLAMABAD – A three-day world congress of the news agencies concluded in Moscow with a call for ensuring free flow of information for all. The congress also adopted a proposal to establish a world council of news agencies, comprising two members each from Alliance of European News Agencies (EANA), Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), […]
SRINAGAR – A group of Pakistani journalists will visit the Indian controlled portion of Kashmir for the first time since the dispute over it erupted in 1948, a newspaper chief said in September 27. The contingent of 18 journalists will spend five days in Kashmir starting on October 3, said Kashmir Times Group chairman Ved […]
KARACHI – The government should offer equal opportunities for employment to women so that they could play decisive role in policy making. This was stated by Justice (retd) Majida Rizvi while addressing a two-day workshop on “Media and violence against women” on September 27. She said that it was responsibility of the government to bring […]
By Dr. Firoza Ahmed In cultures where widows have very little space in society, life is most grim. The same is also true of the elderly single woman. At this point how can one not recognise the brave role particularly of Pakistani communities whose members leave no stone unturned to care for the desolate and […]
KARACHI – Sindh Women Development Minister Dr Saeeda Malik has suggested that quota should be fixed for women in police to help reduce unemployment among the women and to check violence against them. She was presiding over a meeting of ‘violence against women committee’ at her office on September 27. The minister said that to […]
Letter to the editor… I was grieved to read about Mohammad Ilyas’s sad demise that I had known for a very long time. I first met him when I started writing a column for the Pakistan Times in 1967. He was a suave, soft-spoken gentleman who was always eager to learn and read. He was […]
KARACHI – A dispute over television rights could affect coverage of Pakistan’s forthcoming tri-series and Test matches against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, cricket officials fear. Dubai-based television channels Ten sports and ARY, who both secured broadcasting rights for Pakistan cricket last year at a cost of $43 million until 2008, are embroiled in a dispute. […]
ISLAMABAD – Acting President Mohammedmian Soomro highlighted the role of media in projecting social issues and their solution. Addressing the consultation on ‘Pakistani Newspaper Problems and Responsibilities’, the acting president said, “Pakistani media should play its role with prime responsibility and utmost care in offering remedial measures to the social issues.” Soomro said: “The country’s […]
KARACHI – In the first eight months of the current year, as many as 2,367 women were reportedly tortured, physically abused, or killed. Of these, 940 were cases of murder, 259 of torture, 271 of bodily mutilation, 19 cases of stripping, 69 cases of physical drubbing, and 99 cases of harassment in public places. According […]
KARACHI – Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has taken to task the political parties of this country that took least interest in abolishing ‘parallel judicial system’, and ‘illegal trials’ of the citizens of Pakistan, under one or another pretext. A detailed documentary report compiled by HRCP says, “The conduct of the main political parties […]
KARACHI – Secretary General All Pakistan Newspapers Society Muhammad Aslam Kazi had announced the categories constituting the 16th APNS Journalist Awards. In a press release of the APNS issued on September 25, Aslam Kazi advised the journalists, photographers and cartoonists of member publications to submit their entries in any one of the categories. The editors […]
Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 2 No 36 Date 9/26/2004 Download ppf newsletter no 36.pdf
10 women subjected to physical abuse daily KARACHI – In the first eight months of the current year, as many as 2,367 women were reportedly tortured, physically abused, or killed. Of these, 940 were cases of murder, 259 of torture, 271 of bodily mutilation, 19 cases of stripping, 69 cases of physical drubbing, and 99 […]
KARACHI – A spokesperson for the Sindh Information Department on September 24, denied the charge levelled by All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) about banning advertisments to daily newspapers like Aghaz, Nawa-i-Nawabshah, Millat Gujrati and Financial Post. in a rejoinder here, the spokesperson said since take-over by the sitting Advisor to Sindh Government on Information, no […]
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