Category: Pakistan

The Senate on Wednesday passed the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Bill, 2019, paving the way for the child protection legislation to become a law more than two years after the body of nine-year-old Zainab Ansari, a rape-murder victim, was found in Kasur in 2018. The gory incident had sparked outrage in the country and raised […]

ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has rejected the call given by some elements threatening the proposed women’s march on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8 as “unwarranted, uncalled for and totally unacceptable”. In a statement issued on Sunday, PPP secretary general and former Senator Farhatullah Babar said the Constitution guaranteed […]

Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari on Monday condemned those political leaders who were calling on people to “forcibly stop Aurat March”, set to take place on March 8. “Women, like other segments of society, have a right to peacefully protest and demand their rights already enshrined in our Constitution,” Mazari said on Twitter. “Our […]

The licenses of 25 private education institutes in Karachi that were open on Monday — despite the Sindh government’s order a day earlier to close in light of the coronavirus outbreak — have been suspended. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, while presiding over a meeting of the Task Force on coronavirus in Karachi […]

The National Accountability Bureau on Monday filed a new reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former president Asif Ali Zardari, and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the fake accounts case. The reference has been filed at an accountability court in Islamabad. The reference, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, also named […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday formally launched the Ehsaas undergraduate scholarship programme. Addressing the ceremony in Islamabad, the premier stated that a human society is one which looks after the interests of the under privileged. “How can you identify a civilised society? The identity of a civilised society is not determined by how the […]

A civil court in Lahore on Friday asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and singer Ali Zafar to submit their written responses to a petition seeking to stop the release of Zafar’s new song. In his plea, Rizwan Nawab, a resident of Lahore, said that the release of what he termed was a new song […]

Woman only make up 26 per cent of the workforce, despite constituting 49pc of the total population. By ensuring the financial inclusion of women and girls, Pakistan can boost its gross domestic product (GDP) by 33pc. These views were expressed by speakers at a youth dialogue on “Generation equality: Realising women’s rights for an equal […]

Assistant Commissioner of Taftan Najibullah Qambrani confirmed on Friday that the Taftan border between Iran and Pakistan has been temporarily opened to allow for one-way traffic into the country. Around 250-300 Pakistanis stuck in Iran are being allowed to return, he said, adding that those returning include pilgrims among other Pakistani citizens, he said. He […]

The federal cabinet on Friday approved the appointment of Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar as the new Sindh inspector general, effectively replacing Dr Syed Kaleem Imam. In an official notification issued by the Establishment Division, Mahar, “a grade 22 officer serving as the inspector general of the Pakistan Railways police, has been transferred and posted as the […]