I was thrilled to learn that for the first time since the Equator Prize was launched by the United Nations Equator Initiative in 2002, an NGO from Pakistan has won the prestigious award for this year...
“Our NGO started working back in 1999 in Skardu with the local villagers on snow leopard conservation,” he told me...
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will allot 80-kanal piece of land to a Karachi-based NGO free of cost for construction of a hospital, according to sources...
They alleged that the land was being allotted to the NGO, Indus, on political grounds...
MANSEHRA: A non-governmental organisation has given away a grant of Rs4 million to 80 poor families in Gari union council here to help them start small businesses to earn a respectable living...
The Sungi Development foundation (SDF) gave away cheques to deserving families at a function held in Gari Habibullah on Sunday
Representatives of the NGO (Interfaith Harmony for Peace Foundation), religious scholars and minorities’ leaders, politicians, DCOs of Lahore, Nankana, Kasur and Sheikhupura, and heads of the departments concerned attended the meeting...
He also welcomed a suggestion regarding setting up of separate stalls in Sunday and Ramazan bazaars, allowing the NGO to do it in coordination with the respective officials...
LAHORE: Garden Town police arrested a security guard of Jinnah Hospital for torturing and injuring three men of a non-government organisation (NGO) on Tuesday...
Witnesses said the NGO sent its employees to Jinnah Hospital to distribute free food among the patients...
MAZAR SHARIF: Nine Afghan employees of a Czech aid organisation were killed when militants attacked their guesthouse in northern Afghanistan early on Tuesday, officials said...
“Those killed in Zari district of Balkh province include seven aid workers, six men and one woman, and two guards,” deputy provincial police chief Abdul Razaq Qaderi told AFP, blaming the Taliban for the attack
KOHAT: A local court here on Wednesday granted bail to six suspects charged in an honour killing case of a female NGO worker, Hina Shahnawaz, about two months ago...
BUDAPEST: Hungary’s parliament approved on Tuesday a crackdown on foreign-backed civil society groups despite an international outcry, in a move seen as targeting US billionaire George Soros...
A new law, passed by 130 votes to 44, will force groups receiving more than 24,000 euros ($26,000) annually in overseas funding to register as a “foreign-supported organisation”, or risk closure for non-compliance
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled talks on Tuesday with Germany’s foreign minister in a rare move after the visiting diplomat declined to call off meetings with rights groups critical of the Jewish state...
Netanyahu’s meeting with Sigmar Gabriel was cancelled after the German diplomat decided to go ahead with talks with two Israeli rights groups, Breaking The Silence and B’Tselem
PESHAWAR/KOHAT: Regional Police Officer (RPO), Kohat, Awal Khan has dismissed SHO Ustarzai, Inspector Nazar Hussain, from service for conducting faulty and poor investigations in the murder case of NGO worker Hina Shahnawaz...
Hina was gunned down reportedly by a relative over working for an NGO on Feb 6...
AMRITSAR: Two Pakistani sisters and a 10-year-old daughter of one of them were released by Indian authorities on Saturday after completing their 10-year jail term in Amritsar for drug trafficking, as a non-government organisation (NGO) paid the Rs400,000 fine imposed by a court...
Their release was made possible after the intervention of Batala-based NGO ‘Sarbat Da Bhala’ which offered to pay the fine on their behalf...
NEW DELHI: Indian government has cancelled permission for foreign funding for one of the country’s main public health organisations, whose donors include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
It’s the latest move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in cracking down on charities and non-profits that receive funds from overseas and are often criticized for working against national interests
According to documents seen by Dawn, Lt Gen Ahmed was also chairman of the Mountain and Glacier Protection Organisation (MGPO), an NGO...
According to the documents, MPCL hired the NGO in January 2015 for “consultancy services for CSR schemes at Ghauri Block” in Jhelum district...
PESHAWAR: Merlin UK, an international non-governmental organisation, has decided to stop operations at the health facilities in Lower Dir and Buner districts from Monday (today) over nonpayment of its Rs80 million outstanding dues since June 2015 by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department, according to officials...
They said that the issue of payment had been persisting since start of the project in 2014
However, despite an active NGO presence in the country, not much has changed for the man on the street...
Talking to Dawn, an NGO Project Manager said: “No one will say that their projects failed to deliver results...