At a press conference held earlier today, 16 civil society organisations—including the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the Women’s Action Forum, Tehrik-e-Niswan, Aurat March, and the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, among others—have strongly condemned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s troubling remarks linking women’s attire to the incidence of rape. This is the second […]
The Taliban captured Afghanistan\’s main border crossing with Tajikistan, officials said on Tuesday, with security forces abandoning their posts and some fleeing across the frontier, dawn.com reported. The seizure of Shir Khan Bandar, in the far north of Afghanistan, about 50 kilometres from Kunduz city, is the most significant gain for the Taliban since the
GILGIT: Two expedition teams including foreign climbers and renowned Pakistani mountaineer Samina Baig on Friday started their adventure to scale K2. They started their trek to the K2 base camp from Shigar. Talking to mediapersons in Shigar before starting the trek, Ms Baig, whose expedition has been sponsored by Special Communication Organisation (SCO), said she
Senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday fired a broadside at the government for its \”impracticable financial goals\”, saying the decision-makers in Islamabad “manipulated” numbers in the budget for FY2021-22 to fool the masses. Speaking at a press conference alongside other party leaders, former prime minister Abbasi said new taxes worth Rs383 billion had
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday presented the Rs8.48 trillion federal budget for fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22) in the National Assembly, revealing that the government had allocated Rs2,135 billion under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) – an increase of 37 per cent from last year\’s development allocations, dawn.com reports. Leader of the Opposition in
