In what could become a mass denial of rights of thousands of students throughout the country, the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) Islamabad has illegally awarded extra marks and upgraded the examination results of the daughter of the country’s top judge.
In indecent haste and under direct written orders of the chairman FBISE, [...]
One wealthy man wrote this advice, “True economy consists in always making the income exceed the outgo. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress; live on plainer food, if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there [...]
I feel bad to copy paste a report of Ansar Abbasi on ‘The Pakistani Spectators’ i.e. Hundreds of acres of Army land given as bribe to JUI, but it is very much required to discuss and comment on such reports. On one side, military is snatching lands from poor farmers at very low rate for [...]
World is observing “World Food Day” on Oct 16, 2008 under the dark shadow of food crisis all over the globe, especially in developing countries like Pakistan.
I appeal to our all readers that please take some practical steps to provide atleast one time meal/food to poor and hungry human beings living near you. Just try [...]
October the 8th is the third anniversary of the massive earthquake that struck many parts of Azad Kashmir and North West Frontier Province in 2005 that caused widespread deaths, destruction and displacement. Over seventy thousand people, mostly children, were killed. The facts and stories of miseries are well known to the nation and world which [...]
Why do our presidents always end up embarrassing us internationally by making sexist remarks? First it was Gen Musharraf who, in the wake of the Mukhtaran Mai gang-rape case, indicated that women got themselves raped as that was an easy route to getting a foreign visa.
Now, it is President Asif Zardari who, apparently smitten by [...]
The incidents harassment of women at main markets, shopping malls, and public places is on rise as Eid festival is nearing and families are out for shopping in the provincial metropolis.
Mostly, such incidents go unreported as families do not like to go to police stations in order to save their reputation. However, police need to [...]
You may have read a big news entitled “Rat people forced to beg on Pakistan’s streets“. It was a real shocker to read and, tells of the worst, beyond imaginable, child labour industry. There’s a children’s rights issue you may wish to look into which concerns a very extreme and horrifying form of [...]
