A Bangladeshi cricketer found himself at the center of controversy on Monday due to his misogynistic social media posts criticizing women who work, just days after an impressive international debut. Bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib had made a remarkable start to his international career by dismissing ...

India was urged to take a tougher stand on sexual violence and religious discrimination and ratify the torture convention, as countries raked over its human rights record at the UN Thursday. New Delhi insisted it appreciated the role played by human rights defenders and said it would only impose ...

NEW YORK: Demanding an immediate, independent, and transparent investigation into the torture allegations by PTI leader Shahbaz Gill, Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday urged Pakistan to legislate and make torture a crime. The global rights body mentioned the claims of PTI alleging torture ...

*ISLAMABAD - Minister of State for Communications Murad Saeed has written a letter to the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP), asking him to conduct special audit of five NHA projects.* The projects include Lyari Expressway, Khuzdar-Shahdadkot Highway(M-8), Gwadar-Turbat-Hoshab Highway (M-8), ...

LAHORE - Punjab government has decided to begin scrutiny of Pakistani and foreign Madrassah students. The provincial government will launch examination of Madrassa students from the scratch across Punjab, according to which the students and their families will be made to sign an affidavit that ...

KARACHI - A data bank of all Non Government Organizations (NGOs) is being designed to ensure their regular monitoring. This data bank is being designed on the directives of Sindh Minister for Minorities Affairs and Social Welfare Hari Ram Kishori Lal. The official of the department said there ...

LAHORE - The social studies books of a private school have come under severe criticism and scrutiny for publishing wrong map of Pakistan. The book show an incorrect map of Pakistan. Chief executive officer (CEO) of the district education authority (DEA) of Multan has ordered to retrieve all ...

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will scrutinize nomination papers of candidates of presidential election in Islamabad today. Presidential candidates have been advised to appear along with their proposer and seconder before the Commission in Islamabad at 10:00 a.m. The Election Commission said ...

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday advised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) not to shy away from accountability and open its accounts to public scrutiny. An IHC division bench comprising Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, which had taken up an appeal filed ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Saturday issued notices to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former army chief General Mirza Aslam Baig and former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) DG Lieutenant General Asad Durrani in the Asghar Khan case. DG Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the ...