On the face of it, at least statistically, Pakistan is going through a period of economic growth...
The recent Chinese investment package is being touted as proof of global investor confidence returning to Pakistan...
They chanted slogans demanding that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif order brick lining of the canal...
ISLAMABAD: The police helped free 15 of a family who were being held as bonded labourers by a brick kiln owner...
Talking to Dawn, Noon police Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Abid Ikram said the owner of the brick kiln was arrested and he was charged with PPC’s section 344 for wrongful confinement for 10 or more days, section 374 for unlawful compulsory labour and 506 for criminal intimidation...
SYDNEY: An Australian man was jailed on Monday for 18 months on animal cruelty charges after bludgeoning to death nine puppies with a brick while high on methamphetamine, commonly known as ice...
LONDON: Jonathan Trott followed Graeme Swann, Kevin Pietersen and Matt Prior into the international wilderness on Monday to leave England desperately short of experience ahead of this year's Ashes series against Australia...
Trott was forced to admit that he is no longer capable of coping with the demands of Test cricket following a dismal return to the side in the drawn series in West Indies
TOBA TEK SINGH: A feasibility report by the National Engineering Services of Pakistan and two private consultant companies on the proposed brick-lining of Trimmu-Sidhnai (TS) link canal has estimated the project cost at Rs7 billion...
The report adds that as a result of brick lining, 550 cusecs of water will be saved which is wasted in seepage...
In Pakistan’s case, the first major corruption scandal in Benazir Bhutto’s tenure involved the serving naval chief at the time (in the Agosta submarine case)...
Pakistan has traversed a fair distance in terms of entrenchment of the rule of law since the lawyers movement of 2007...
SIALKOT: The brick kilns across the district have stopped production in the rainy season after the first widespread torrential rains of the monsoon badly affected the bricks which had not been baked yet...
A majority of the brick kiln labourers, thousands in number, in the district belong to south Punjab and they have gone back to their native places to have a break from work inadvertently due to rains...
MUZAFFARGARH: Two brick kilns on Dera Ghazi Khan Road were sealed over child labour and cases were registered against their owners here on Sunday...
District Coordination Officer Hafiz Shaukat Ali with District Officer Labour Tahir Gurchani paid a surprise visit to at Bakhtawar Brick Kiln Qalandar Brick Kiln at Noor Kubra and found children making the bricks...
“The red sandstone used in the minarets of Jahangir’s tomb is not available in Pakistan and needs to be imported from India; the government of Pakistan has to issue an NOC for it,” he elaborates over tea that has been specially called for from the bazaar nearby...
“From among Pakistan’s several Mughal monuments, Jahangir’s tomb has the most complex decorative elements...
64pc of brick kiln workers reported prevalent sexual harassment in the workplace, and only 2...
The report, formulated by the Labour Quami Movement and the Pattan Development Organisation, assessed the brick kiln industry’s compliance with Pakistani labour laws and the country’s international obligations under eight labour-related conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)...
FAISALABAD: The district administration and police officials managed to stop a brick kiln workers’ march on Lahore near Nishatabad Bridge here on Monday...
LAHORE: The All Punjab Brick Kiln Owners Association on Sunday announced holding a three-day strike in protest against the ongoing raids at their kilns over child labour...
The cases were being registered against the kiln owners under the Prohibition of Child Labour at Brick Kilns Ordinance 2016...
TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of brick kiln workers demonstrated on Tuesday outside the district labour office and staged a sit-in there demanding implementation of a Punjab government’s notification under which kiln owners are to pay Rs962 per 1,000 bricks to their workers...
Pakistan Bhatta Mazdoor Union’s Muhammad Shabbir and labour leaders Shagufta Bibi, Sajida Bibi, Nazir Masih, Riaz Mushtaq and Muhammad Ashfaq spoke to the gathering......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Brick kiln workers, including women and children, took out a procession for implementation of minimum wages on Friday...