KARACHI: The Sindh police have decided to install 4,000 high definition 12 megapixel closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras across Karachi in a major move to replace and augment the existing 2,200 cameras, which have become so obsolete that their footage provides little help in identifying suspects or even registration number of vehicles used in a crime...
AS everyone knows, the demand for the law minister’s resignation cloaked another unarticulated desire: that Pakistan should be an Islamic state...
But what exactly does that mean?In post-Shah Iran, in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, and more recently in parts of Iraq and Syria, clerics have claimed that the governments they established were not only religiously correct but also, more broadly, part of new Islamic states
Yet the works of Lala Rukh that I have looked at transcend this threadbare definition...
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday called for amending the definition of the government to ensure smooth running of state affairs...
“Our hands will be tied and it will not be possible to carry out work unless the current definition is reversed,” he said while winding up the budget discussion in the Senate, which was followed by adoption of a set of recommendations formulated by the Senate’s standing committee on...
The committee concluded the review on Thursday in Geneva and raised concerns about the lack of harmonisation of the laws with the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an inconsistent and conflicting definition of the child throughout the legislation and across provinces...
The committee’s experts expressed concerns about regression in the protection of the rights of the child caused by the introduction of new laws,...
Mr Ahmed assured committee members that it was not for private banks to misuse the definition of PEPs to discriminate, close down accounts or create hassles for customers...
The Walk Free Foundation uses a broader definition to identify people trapped in slavery-like conditions — people working in exploitative conditions, women lured with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in prostitution, migrant workers allowed only restricted movement, those in forced labour and debt bondage and children facing exploitation...
Though instruments, such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions...
An English medium school in Sahiwal, run and owned by an apparently educated politician’s family, provides us with a new mind-blowing description of what constitutes foul language that unmistakably shows us why our education system is in an abysmal state despite all the tall claims of businessmen-turned-educators...
The school’s circular, dated 22-08-2016, addressed to the parents of its students which surfaced recently on social media...
GENEVA: A UN human rights expert urged Facebook on Monday to narrow its “sweeping” definition of terrorism to stop governments arbitrarily blocking legitimate opposition groups and dissenting voices...
“The use of such a sweeping definition is particularly worrying in light of a number of governments seeking to stigmatise diverse forms of dissent and opposition [whether peaceful or violent] as terrorism,” wrote N Aolin, UN special...
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farogh Naseem said on Saturday the issue of incompetence on the part of judges, if any, could be dealt with by enlarging the definition of misconduct as given in Article 209 of the Constitution...
Speaking at a ceremony at which newly elected office-bearers of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) were sworn in, the minister said if there were some incompetent judges in the high courts or...
Speaking, just as Pakistani delegates do now, to the bevy of First World nations that dominated the power politics of international cooperation, Bhutto argued that there should, in fact, not be any definition of ‘aggression’ at all...
The very existence of a definition, in his view, would hand would-be dictators of the world a basis for distortion and manipulation, a way to strong-arm small nations into doing what the interests of...
As the Supreme Court noted, the definition of terrorism in the ATA has been the subject of much debate since the law was first enacted...
In its judgement, the Supreme Court gave an overview of the jurisprudence on the definition of terrorism to show two predominant approaches taken by courts in determining the ambit of the law:One interpretation considered the “nature” or “effect” of the act, finding that if the “nature of the...
Millions of migrants and tribal people in India's northeastern Assam state could be denied land because of a new definition of the term “indigenous”, land and human rights experts said...
Any definition would run counter to India's classification of indigenous people, which is applied to its 104 million tribal population — also known as Adivasis or “original inhabitants” — who make up nearly 10 per cent of the country's 1...
RAWALPINDI: The nomination of unknown personalities for Rawalpindi city’s two seats of National Assembly (NA) by the PPP has disturbed old party workers who have announced not to support them...
Disgruntled party workers say they will not support the newcomers and vote for candidates of other parties“The PPP gave tickets to Mr Abbas and Mr Nadeem and asked them to launch their election campaigns,” the city president of the party,...
The main highlight of the day, however, was the announcement by former PML-N candidates Rana Muhammad Aslam (PP-210) and Hassan Mehmood Shah (PP-211) joining the PTI and supporting Mr Tareen in the by-election...
Former PML-N candidate for NA-154 Syed Riffiuddun Shah and Umair Khan Baloch, the son of Mr Baloch, are the two prominent candidates for the party ticket...