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Maltreatment of women during raid slammed

KARACHI – Speakers at a demonstration on August 24, condemning the maltreatment committed against the women during and after a recent raid on the Prince Cinema have demanded that all the police officials involved in the action be taken to task immediately. Speaking at the demonstration organized by an NGO, the Women Workers’ Help Line […]


85 children languishing in jails, Senate told

ISLAMABAD – As many as 85 children, including 45 new born, are languishing in different jails of the country just because their mothers are undergoing various prison terms. The official record shows that 45 children were born to women prisoners during first six months of the current year. The record was provided to Senate by […]


Women to contest for Nazim’s posts on PML ticket

LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League will award tickets to women for contesting the elections for Nazims and Naib Nazims in the next district government polls. This was said by Punjab PML Secretary-General and Provincial Communications and Works Minister Chaudhry Zaheeruddin Khan while talking to a delegation of women, led by Provincial Population Welfare Minister […]


Diversion of our women

By Saima Kausar Ist century is the era of technology and development and there is always a space for betterment and advancement in every field. And because of competition among different countries every country is trying to go ahead and progress. So besides other developments these countries have develop their electronic media as well. There […]


Nutrition deficiency main cause of Women diseases

LARKANA – The speakers at a seminar on “Reproductive Health” arranged by PAVHNA, said that 50 percent of diseases in women are the cause of nutrition deficiency and 550 women out one lakh die during delivery and thus after every 20 minutes a mother breathes her last during child birth in Pakistan. They said that […]


Defamation law to curb Press freedom

SHEIKHUPURA – Despite protests from the oppositions, the media and the legal community, government passed the Defamation Bill 2004 that has been designed mainly to protect public figures from slander by enhanced punishment, fine and speedier trial. ‘The Defamation Bill 2004 is a black law that has been introduced, to suppress freedom of the press […]


Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 2 No 33

Title Pakistani Zara e Ablagh Ka Haftroza Jaiza Vol 2 No 33 Date 8/23/2004 Download ppf newsletter no 33.pdf


Publishers team off to India

LAHORE – Over 100 representa­tives of the publishers Sunday left for India to attend ‘Delhi Book Fair’, which will continue till August 29. As many as ten stalls of Pakistani books have been set up in this fair. President Pakistan publishers forum Syed Hassan Maqbool Zaidi apprised that an interna­tional book fair will be held […]


Gang-rape victim’s family being harassed

MULTAN – Influential people in the Bait Mir Hazar Khan area of Muzaffargarh district are pressurizing the family members of a gang-rape victim to make them withdraw the case while the police have yet to arrest the culprits. The 12-year-old victim had gone to the fields near her home in Mauza Bait Dirayee at night […]


Nutrition deficiency in women

LARKANA – The speakers at a seminar on “Reproductive Health” arranged by PAVHNA, said that 50 percent of diseases in women are the cause of nutrition deficiency and 550 women out of one lakh die during delivery and thus after every 20 minutes mother breathes her last during child birth in Pakistan. They said that […]


Many women among 765 killed this year in Sindh

KARACHI – Bomb blasts, karo-kari, honour killing and other such crimes against humanity have claimed as many as 765 lives during the January – July period this year in Sindh , according to a report prepared by an NGO, the Aurat Foundation, which said that a big number of the victims appeared to be women. […]


KMC girls campus to house women’s medical college

PESHAWAR – The NWFP government plans to convert the recently established the girls campus of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) into a women’s medical college within a year after it fulfils the criteria of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC). “Those female medical students who do not want to study in mixed environment would […]


CPNE annual general meeting on September 7

KARACHI – The annual general meeting of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) will be held on Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at the Islamabad Club at 11 am to consider a four-point agenda which includes the consideration of the annual report of the CPNE for 2003-04 to be presented by Secretary-General Jabbar Khattak, the […]


PTV employees regularisation policy

ISLAMABAD – Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on August 21, said that the policy for regularisation of over 1000 Resource Persons in PTV would be presented to the new government. This he stated while talking to a delegation of newly elected PTV Employees Union in Islamabad. The minister advised that the PTV […]