KHAIRPUR – The Prisoners and Orphans Welfare Association, Khairpur, organised a seminar on “Human Rights and Fundamental Legal Rights” at the Higher Secondary School, Hussainabad, in collaboration with the Indus Resource Centre (IRC) in Khairpur. Addressing the seminar, EDO (Law) District Attorney Khairpur Abdul Sattar Bhanmbhro said there is need to protect human right in […]
GILGIT – There is no women candidate in the election to the Northern Areas Ligislative Council and local bodies, the final list of candidates shows. The number of women voters in the regions is around 250,000. There are five reserved seats for women in the NALC, for which indirect election would be held. In the […]
BAHAWALPUR – On the orders of the Bahawalpur sessions court, Khairpur Tamewali police on September 23, registered a case against 10 people who had allegedly disgraced women by stripping and dragging them in fields at Mauza Ichrani the other day. Reports said Allah Bakhsh had purchased land at Mauza Ichrani and this infuriated Allah Wasaya, […]
LAHORE – The orders of the Punjab government to detain Sarwar Mujahid, a journalist from Okara for three months, were reserved by Lahore High Court on September 22. His brother Muhammad Anwar challenged the detention order through a writ petition saying that the journalist was detained for his correct and objective reporting on the incidents […]
KARACHI – Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has been requested to be the chief guest at the 17th APNS Awards Ceremony scheduled to be held in the first week of December, according to a press release. The Executive Committee of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) which met under the chairmanship of its President Arif Nizami […]
ABBOTTABAD – Environment journalists can play a vital role in putting pressure on policy-makers for a sustainable improvement in environmental conditions, a training workshop was told in Abbotabad on September 21. The day long workshop on ‘Status of environmental journalism in Pakistan’ was organized by the IUCN and PERT (Programme for Environmental Research and Training). […]
Reporters Without Borders today condemned a continuing ban on journalists entering the South Waziristan Tribal Area adjoining the border with Afghanistan, although the Pakistani interior minister undertook a week ago to let journalists into the area. ‘Despite the government’s promises, the Pakistani armed forces maintain an unacceptable de facto news blackout in South Waziristan,’ the […]
ISLAMABAD – State Information Minister Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli said that media personnel should play their role in effectively highlighting women’s issues. Media could highlight social issues and could help the government in resolving issues with adoption of multi-pronged approach through legislation or creating awareness among the people, she said. Anisa Zeb was addressing a workshop […]
ISLAMABAD – The perinatal mortality rate continues to be high in Pakistan, partially because 80 percent of the total 4.5 million annual births occur at home, observed the Pakistan Population Assessment 2003, a report by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The report noted that the average total fertility rate in Pakistan was estimated at 4.8. […]
SUKKUR – A bloody clash between two rival groups of Jatoi tribe claimed lives of two women, while three others were injured, near village Dr. Ibrahim Jatoi, in Rustam police station jurisdiction, district Shikarpur. Two rival groups of Jatoi tribe, one led by Ghazi and the other by Jhando, have been at daggers drawn since […]
PESHAWAR – The Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) has launched a newsletter with a view to highlighting research and other activities of medical professionals in the province. The dean of the PGMI, Prof Dr Arshad Javaid, who is patron of the newsletter, said that PGMI was a dynamic centre of excellence for teaching, training and research […]
KARACHI – Arif Nizami, Editor The Nation and President APNS and CPNE on September 22, said that freedom of media was basic element of democracy. He said the freedom of journalism in the country is result of tremendous sacrifices rendered by working journalists and owners of the newspapers. He was addressing at a dinner arranged […]
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2005 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN JOURNALISTS The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) invites women journalists from any country outside the United States to apply for its 2005 Fellowship Program for International Women Journalists. Launched in 2004, the fellowship gives women journalists from around the world an opportunity to learn valuable skills […]
KARACHI – MNA Fauzia Wahab, central coordinator for the Human Rights Cell of the Pakistan People’s Party, in a statement urged the government to take action against those involved in September 13, ransacking of the Ghotki office of a daily Kawish, and its sister concern, the channel, KTN. The bureau chief of the newspaper, Allah […]
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