Human Rights

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: People are dying, and number is likely to rise with each passing day as cheap flour which is also reported to be very substandard is provided free from the government for the poor. The three bags for the poor…

News Desk Islamabad: The government has successfully completed the first phase of polio vaccination campaign to immunize over 17.41 million children five years old in Sindh and Punjab. The five-day vaccination campaign was held in two…

News Desk Islamabad: The energy policies in Pakistan have traditionally been blind to the differences in gender-wise energy consumption and the different impacts they have on genders. Women in rural areas and lower-income households are…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947, for a host of pertinent reasons. In the process, whole communities were uprooted and displaced with hundreds of thousands being killed or separated from their…

News Desk Islamabad: All the lights should be turned off for one hour tonight at 8 p.m. Under Earth Hour, environmental action would be taken on a large scale, according to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “We all have…

News Desk Peshawar: District Police Officer (DPO) Bannu Ziauddin Ahmad suspended an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) after a video of mistreatment of an elderly person by the officer was posted on social media. The DPO took notice and…

News Desk Muzaffargarh: A senior citizen woman allegedly lost her life during a struggle for free flour in the tehsil Jatoe of Muzaffargarh district. According to Rescue 1122, the woman’s, namely Zahra Bibi, health deteriorated as a…

APP Islamabad: Social activists warned the public against professional beggars who are moving into cities to exploit people’s generosity during the holy month of Ramadan and underlined the need for social media awareness for such a…

News Desk Islamabad: A three-day residential training programme on leadership and protection for transgender fellows was held to strengthen trans community leaders’ knowledge of flood disaster response, protection, governance mechanisms,…

News Desk Rawalpindi: The Race Course police have detained a guy for allegedly torturing his stepdaughter inhumanely in the Race Course area of Rawalpindi, according to a police spokesman. The Race Course police took immediate action…