Tag: Failed

ISLAMABAD - Because of successive governments' failure in introducing any national policy on child protection coupled with ineffective laws safeguarding children's interests, violence against children in Pakistan has increased manifold with 5,120 reported cases during last year alone.
During a one-day orientation workshop here on Tuesday experts stressed the need to approve pending child protection laws and enforce implementation of the existing ones.
The workshop was

LAHORE - The impression in the West about Pakistan being a failed state needs to be dispelled as it is a much more resilient state than is usually believed and the wave of extremism cannot destroy it, Professor Anatol Lieven from the Department of War Studies at the King's College London opined.
Lieven, who is currently on a visit to Pakistan, has had decades of experience in Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US. In addition to having had a BA and a doctorate from Cambridge

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Friday criticised the law-enforcing agencies, especially police, over their complete failure to maintain law and order situation. "They are even involved in torture, substandard prosecution and registration of false cases," it further observed.
The committee held a meeting at the Parliament House with Riaz Fatyana in the chair.
Committee members Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Fauzia Habib, Dr Mehreen Bhutto, Dr

BRUSSELS - Europe's top trade negotiator called for greater commercial ties with North African states making the transition to democracy, saying he will unveil new proposals to achieve this next week. But Karel De Gucht said he will not seek unilateral trade concessions or cuts to import tariffs such as those the European Union granted its war-ravaged Balkan neighbours in the 1990s.
He cited that the unsuccessful EU attempt to grant temporary duty-free access to imports from

KARACHI - In a dramatic development in the Shershah carnage case on Monday, a witness filed a constitutional petition for arresting and prosecuting nine men who were released a month ago after he had failed to identify them before the court.
Anti-Terrorism Court Administrator Judge Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had acquitted the nine suspects - Ejaz, Iqbal, Muhammad Akbar, Asghar Ali, Muhammad Tufail, Abdul Rasheed, Tehseen, Jauhar and Abid - on January 26 because the complainant had

LAHORE - Around 641 women out of 2,670 failed in initial driving license tests while the City Traffic Police issued licenses to 2,029 women in 2010. Traffic police spokesman said that a large number of women had applied for obtaining driving licenses but during initial tests conducted at the Thokar Niaz Baig Centre under supervision of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ali Iftikhar Jaffry, only 2,029 women succeeded. He said that the traffic police have chalked out a comprehensive

QUETTA - Chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney has said that hundreds of Punjabi-speaking families, Muslims from Shia sect and Hindu families in Balochistan province were planning to migrate to safer areas fearing persecution. He said these people are fearful of extremists and fundamentalists who kidnap minority people for ransom or in some cases just brutally murder them. He was talking to journalists here on

The Guardian - Once again, Lebanon is on the brink of major social and political upheaval. Rumours of an impending armed clash between Hezbollah and the pro-western governing coalition have spread like wildfire among the Lebanese people, who are hoarding food and arms in anticipation of the worst.
On the surface of it, the current crisis revolves around a United Nations tribunal set up to investigate the 2005 assassination of prime minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. An indictment

LAHORE - A handful of failed PU Law College students held a protest on Thursday demanding that aggregate passing marks be decreased from existing 45 percent to 40 percent in addition to introduction of carry-on system in the LLB examinations.
PU Law College Incharge Samee Uzair Khan said that protester's demands fall within ambit of the Board of Studies in Law and the board had rejected both demands in its previous meeting terming them detrimental to standards of legal