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Cabinet for wage board award implementation

ISLAMABAD – The federal cabinet which met on August 18 with Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in the chair decided to implement the 7th Wage Board Award for newspaper employees in accordance with the existing law on the subject. Briefing newsmen after the cabinet meeting, federal Minister for Information Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said that the […]


48 % growth in IT export shows sector’s strength

ISLAMABAD – Federal Information Technology Minister Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari on August 18 said a massive 48 percent growth in the country’s IT exports last year had shown the strength of the IT sector in leading the economic revolution in Pakistan. This tremendous growth in the IT export reflects the investment-friendly and export-oriented policies to […]


Inter results announced

HYDERABAD – The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, on August 19, announced the results of the higher secondary certificate part-II (class-XII) pre-medical group annual examination 2004. Naveed, son of Ismail Soomro, of the Preston Intermediate College, Latifabad; Ashok Kumar, son of Preetam Rathore, of the Government Boys Degree College, Sanghar; and Aakash, son […]


Two colleges for girls to be set up in Kohat

KOHAT: MPA Qalb-i-Hassan has said that two new girls college would be established in Kohat during the next financial year to overcome the problem of shortage of seats in the existing institutions. Speaking at a press conference here on August 17, the MPA said an assurance in this regard had been held out by Chief […]


Media seminar on training of journalists

HYDERABAD – Speakers at a seminar on the topic ‘Media and Sustainable Development’ em­phasised the need of organising the media men including broad­casters for their labour rights, education and training. The seminar was organised by the Institute of Media and Sus- tainable Development (IMSD). Former student-leader Momin Khan Momin said democracy could not sustain without […]


MP A opposes Domestic Violence Bill

LAHORE – MMA MP A lhsanullah Waqas Monday op­posed ‘Punjab Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill’. He presented his point of view on the Bill before tHe Punjab As­sembly standing committee on Home Affairs meeting held un­der the chairmanship of Rai . Ahsan Raza Kharal. The MP A believed that the Bill would cause increase in […]


Hudood law amends rejected

The Commission for Peace and Human Development (CPHD) has rejected the pro­posed changes in a joint bill on Hudood and Blasphemy laws,referred by the National Assembly to the Standing Committee on Law and Justice. CPHD Executive Director said the amendments would not bring significant changes to the law. Source: The Nation Date:8/18/2004


First-ever women crisis centre opens

KARACHI: The Sindh Women Development Department has established the Women Crisis Centre, first of its kind in the country, to provide assistance to the women exposed to domestic and other sorts of violence of serious nature. The centre was formally inaugurated here on August17. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of […]


PPF Journalism Skills Development Programme, Abbotabad

Date: April 18 – 20, 2004 Location: Abbotabad, NWFP Abbotabad is an important city of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). It is located in a beautiful valley, surrounded by forest covered mountains and is a popular resort for tourists. It is known for its well kept military cantonment from the British days. It is also renowned […]


Women’s Crisis Centre opened

KARACHI – Women Crisis Center, the first of its kind in any of the four provinces of Pakistan, Was opened here Tuesday with the objective to help women. exposed to violence and harassment, par­ticularly that of domestic and chauvinistic in nature. The initiative has been taken by the Sindh Women Development Department follow­ing a meeting […]


Draft for amendments in Family Courts Act

ISLAMABAD : The Women Ministry has proposed a draft for amendments in Section 5 of the Family Courts Act, 1964. The amendment is in line with the proposal of Pakistan Law Commission that gives exclusive jurisdiction to Family Courts to try cases where victims and perpetuator of the act are spouses. Majority of mental and […]


MPA opposes Domestic Violence Bill

MMA MPA Ihsanullah Waqas Monday op­posed ‘Punjab Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill’. He presented his point of view on the Bill before tne Punjab As­sembly standing committee on Home Affairs meeting held un­der the chairmanship of Rai Ahsan Raza Kharal. The MP A believed thatthe Bill would cause increase in separation cases due topolice involvement […]


Computer course for journalists starts

RAWALPINDI – A two-week computer training course for journalists, jointly organised by the Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU) and Rawalpindi Islamabad Press Club, started here on August 16 with a good number of journalists from different news organisations of the twin cities took part in it. The inauguration ceremony of the training course held in […]


30 women among 130 held in raid on cinema

KARACHI: More than 130 persons including 30 women were nabbed on charges of obscenity within the premises of a cinema house on M A Jinnah Road on August 16, police said. A senior police official told The News that a raid headed by Rauf Siddiqui, the provincial Minister for Home Affairs, was conducted at a […]