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Woman journalists on rise: KUJ study

KARACHI – There has been an increase in the number of women journalists in the country particularly with the introduction of private TV news channels during the past couple of years. This was stated in a study compiled by Karachi Union of journalists (KUJ) and released on the eve of International Women’s Day being marked […]


Women worst victims of blindness BY Muhammad Saleem

LAHORE (March 7, 2004): The world over, every minute, 12 people become blind, and four of them live in the South-East Asia Region where one-third of the world’s blind (nearly 15 million) live. Every year almost ten million people in this Region die without their sight being restored, most of them dying within ten years […]


Languishing in lockups By Hina Shahid

Women prisoners are often held in custody indefinitely by male police officers without the knowledge of the courts. Most incidents of sexual abuse occur during this period of illegal detention. It was a typical after­noon in the courts of law. The British-built red­brick building called the City Court was echoing with noise, and presented a […]


100 Indian media men issued visas

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has issued visas to nearly 100 Indian journalists and media persons, including TV commentators for coverage of the forthcoming Pakistan-India cricket series. The unprecedented public interest in the series is reflected in the number of requests made by the Indian media for visas to Pakistan, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Information. […]


UK journalists’ body flays ban on Nawa-i-Waqt

LAHORE – A representative body of journalists, in the UK, National Union of British journalists, has reacted strongly to the government of Pakistan decision to impose ban on advertisements to the Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications because of the group’s editorial policy. In a statement, Joint Secretary of the NUBJ Suzan Peters has said that Press […]


Women protest in Paris against veil ban

PARIS (March 7, 2004): Thousands of women demonstrated in Paris on March 6, 2004, amid deep division over the wearing of the Islamic veil. The procession included both a heavily guarded group of veiled women and members of a group called “Ni Putes Ni Soumises” – Neither Whores nor Slaves – that opposes the violence […]


Journalist among two kidnapped

SUKKAR: Five armed men in Old Sukkar kidnapped two people, including a journalist, on March 4, 2004. The armed man kidnapped six persons when they were playing badminton in Waspur locality of the city. The area people chased after the kidnappers, compelling them to free four boys after an exchange of fire. The bandits, however, […]


Virtual University Television Network

LAHORE: Virtual University Television Network has become the first Pakistani educational television channel to be linked up to the country’s first communications satellite PAKSAT-1. Managing Director VUTV Tajdar Alam said in a statement here on Friday that the results are of high transmission qualit6y and we are now ready for our test transmission and will […]


Need stressed for promoting micro financing – Economic stability cannot be achieved without women’s role

RAWALPINDI: Without involving women entrepreneurs in the economic activities through the provision of micro credit financing, the country cannot achieve the target of economic stability and self-reliance, said Dr. Ishrat Hussain, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan, here on March 5, 2004. “It is a point of concern that the number of micro-credit finance borrowers in […]


TV offices attacked in Pakistan

On March 02, about 20 rioters broke into the offices of the private GEO TV station and set fire to administrative record, newspapers, and other material, according to Karachi based Pakistan Press Foundation. The offices were closed for the holiday, and no one was injured. The building also houses the offices of the national daily […]


CPNE standing body meeting on 8th

KARACHI: Secretary General of the Council of the Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE), Dr. Jabbar Khattak, has announced that an emergency meeting of the standing committee of CPNE will be held on March 8, Monday at 2pm in central secretariat at 29-3rd floor, Fareed Chambers, Abdullah Haroon Road. The meeting will consider the situation created after […]


Government to support tabling of Hudood Ordinance in Parliament: Soomro

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Mohammadmian Soomro has said that present government would support tabling of the controversial Hudood Ordinance in the Parliament to repeal the objectionable clauses. If any party presented the Hudood Ordinance in the parliament for debate we would not oppose the move, he added. He was talking to journalists after launching ‘Inquiry Report […]


Obstructing women candidates

Editorial… It is indeed shocking that most political parties in lower Dir in the NWFP have decided not to field women candidates for the local bodies by-elections scheduled toward the end of this month. Citing “cultural reasons” for their decision, these parties, which include the Jamaat-i-Islami and the PPP, have said that they would not […]


AI kicks off campaign for women’s rights

KARACHI, March 5: The Amnesty International on March 2, 2004 launched a two-year-long campaign aimed at end to violence against women. Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, the AI representatives, Dr Mirza Ali Azhar, Dr Habiba Hassan and Ms Zahida Hina, said that the nation wide campaign was part of the […]