ISLAMABAD: Despite delivering an emotionally charged speech in favour of the proposed Hindu marriage law, National Assembly Standing Committee Law and Justice Chairman Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk could not convince members of the committee to approve the bill, on Wednesday. In his speech at the ‘National Conference on Hindu Marriage Bill’, the PML-N MNA recounted […]
National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat has unanimously approved “The Disabled Persons Employment and Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2014” to facilitate the disabled in government and private sector jobs. The committee meeting was held with Asad Umar in the chair at Parliament House on Tuesday. It said that the bill is aimed at making physical […]
ISLAMABAD: Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) has criticised the government for formulating special committee to clear Right to Information (RTI) Law, terming it a move to cause further confusion and delay the enactment of the law. “Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives believes that there are already adequate and strong safeguards in Right […]
A one-day lecture programme for orientation with media persons on “Media Laws and Ethics” was organised by Indus-Valley Communication Concepts (ICC) in collaboration with Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) at M.B. Ansari Hall Radio Pakistan Hyderabad. Experts urged upon all stakeholders to sit together and finalise a comprehensive code of conduct through consultation and legislation. They […]
ISLAMABAD: If the government is to be believed this time, the federal Right to Information (RTI) law is soon becoming a reality, as the prime minister has formed a committee to clear the draft law without approval of the cabinet. Minister for Information Pervez Rashid told The News that a five-member committee of PML-N lawmakers […]
LAHORE – Financial institutions are increasingly becoming the soft targets for cyber criminals affecting the technological progress in e-commerce area adversely, said an FIA officer. Businessmen of Sialkot have requested FIA management to establish office of Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in their city to confront with the cyber criminals. Similar requests have been received […]
ISLAMABAD: Despite urging the federal government to introduce the Right to Information (RTI) law, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is unable to enact the same legislation in its own ruled Sindh province, which is currently being deemed as the least transparent federating unit. The provincial government claims that it has already drafted the RTI law […]
ISLAMABAD: The year 2015 has passed amid promises of enacting the Right to Information law at the federal level with the PML-N government dilly-dallying on it since 2014 by flirting with different ideas to improve the draft bill. The RTI bill drafted in 2014 for replacing a weak legislation, Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002, has […]
Karachi Despites its inherent flaws, the provincial right to information law — if used — has the potential to empower citizens to a much higher degree and help improve on the current transparency and accountability levels in governance and all other related matters. The reason this law could bring about a possible change is that […]
LARKANA: Speakers at a seminar on ‘Rights of minority’ called for legislation and other measure on an urgent basis to curb kidnapping, forced conversion and rape of women belonging to religious minorities. They also highlighted other major issues being faced by them for long but have remained unresolved so far. The seminar was organised by […]
ISLAMABAD: Rights activists at a discussion proposed amendments in the drafts of legislative bills on minority rights here on Tuesday. The objective of the draft bills is to assist the parliamentarians in general and members of freedom caucuses formed for bringing reforms in the prevailing legal framework through mainstreaming minorities at all levels. Speaking at […]
ISLAMABAD: A study on ‘Blasphemy in the Digital Age’ has revealed that blasphemy accusations increased by almost 200 times after Gen Ziaul Haq amended the blasphemy law. Presented by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) on Friday, the study drew comparisons between the period before and after the current blasphemy law was introduced in 1987. Prior […]
KARACHI: From rights of non-Muslim women to marry the men of their choice to invoking their right to marry for the second time, many queries were tackled at a consultative meeting conducted by the Sindh Rural Partners Organisation on Tuesday with an aim to incorporate suggestions from the stakeholders in a draft bill. The main […]
Hyderabad: Lawyers, rights activists and civil society members expressed concerns that despite existing peasant-related laws, the families of poor agricultures workforce are paying huge cost of negligence by the Sindh government. They pointed out that those daring farmers challenge the cruel system, they are being pushed in to jails or being lodged FIRs against them […]
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