Listen to the article Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has offered a sobering account of media freedoms in Pakistan in its latest report titled “Hard Sentiments: The State of Freedom of Expression (2022-24) » published Thursday. The results of the report, written by journalist Mahim Maher, revealed a disturbing landscape. The report […]
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Listen to the article Islamabad: The Ministry of Power spent billions of rupees every year to provide free electricity to its public and corporate employees, according to official documents presented to the National Assembly on Thursday. The documents revealed that more than 200,000 current and former employees of the ministry received 441.5 million units of
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Listen to the article Karachi: The parliamentary committee of the Sindh Assembly has decided to dispose of the documents of students, who have reservations on the results of class 11, re-checked by a third party. A meeting of the committee to inquire into the findings of the Karachi Intermediate Education Board (Biek) was held under
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Listen to the article Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif described Country Partnership Framework (CPF) on Thursday, a historic initiative for the World Bank through a strategic cooperation of a decade to stimulate employment possibilities, initiatives led by IT and resilience climate guaranteeing economic stability. It was addressed to the launching ceremony of the $ 20
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The delegation of NDMA Pakistan participated Thursday in the 18th meeting of the Regional Advisory Committee (RCC) in Bangkok, Thailand. The regional advisory committee is a regional forum to promote consultation and cooperation in disaster and climate change risks in the Asia-Pacific region. The theme of this year’s RCC meeting is “sustainable anticipation actions for
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PARIS: A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a Pakistani man to 30 years in prison for attempting to murder two people outside the former Charlie Hebdo offices in 2020 with a meat cleaver. When he carried out the attack, Zaheer Mahmood, 29, wrongly believed the satirical newspaper was still based in the building, which had
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Islamabad: The president of the movement for the salvation of Jammu-et-Cachemire (JKSM) stressed the crucial importance given to both political advocacy and the socio-economic development of the Kashmir people. His praise of the support of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to the law of cashmere in self -determination and its recognition of initiatives such as the
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MIRANSHAH: The South Waziristan district police on Thursday launched a massive search operation to trace four policemen, who were kidnapped by unidentified attackers from a checkpoint in Umar Raghzai area of Sararogha tehsil. Although district police officer Arshad Khan did not respond to reporters’ call for details of the incident, locals said large contingents of
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ISLAMABAD: Although 12 names were approved for appointment as additional judges of the Sindh High Court, the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) missed the opportunity to appoint a first minority judge in the higher judiciary. Since the 18th constitutional amendment in 2010, there is no judge from a minority community in the higher judiciary comprising
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Rawalpindi: Security forces neutralized six terrorists in Zhob district while they were trying to infiltrate into Balochistan across the border along Afghanistan, the media wing said on Thursday. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), “on [the] Night of 22/23 January, the movement of a group of Khwarij, who were trying
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