Tag: Right

Showing loyalty to the Punjab chief minister but making a mockery of law, Lahore District Coordination Officer (DCO) and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Chairman...

The right to information was made part of constitution through the 18th Amendment but till now the ordinance has not been fully implemented and...

Women's rights in Afghanistan risk being forgotten as international troops withdraw and the government struggles for a peace deal 10 years after the Taliban...

A group of NGOs have collaborated to promote Child Rights Movement (CRM) in Punjab to tackle the widespread violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of...

The time has finally come for the government to take some tough decisions if it wants to save the industrial, fertiliser and CNG sectors....

Defence A Police registered a criminal case against a tailor for failing to deliver garments on time on the complaint of Senior Adviser to...

While the intense summer sun blazed down on railway stations across the country, hundreds of passengers sat on platforms waiting for several unending hours...

Dutch far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders Tuesday called Norwegian suspect Anders Behring Breivik’s twin attacks a “slap in the face of the global anti-Islam movement.”...

British actor Hugh Grant and his former girlfriend, socialite Jemima Khan, obtained a court order Wednesday requiring police to hand over evidence indicating their...

A fiery encounter saw special guests Costa Rica get back into contention on Thursday for a place in the Copa America quarter-finals with a...

Sluggish trading activity was witnessed at the local bourse; as the index closed at 12,317, down by 21 points, with 55 million shares traded...

Freedom of information or right to information (RTI) is an internationally recognised human right, therefore media, legislature and civil society should play their role...

Former law minister Babar Awan said the verdict of the Lahore High Court ordering President Asif Ali Zardari to stop political activities in Presidency...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that it had the jurisdiction and power to review the decisions of the Parliamentary Committee under the Article 184 of the constitution.
A four-member special bench comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain was hearing the government's review petition against the apex court's March 4 decision, which set aside the committee's decision to reject

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday gave the custody of a Canadian child born out of wedlock to his unmarried Indian-origin Canadian national mother Roshni Desai and held that the mother should move a Canadian court for getting compensation, if any, from the Canadian national father of Pakistani origin who unlawfully brought the child to Pakistan.
The court also returned the passport of the mother so that she might travel back to Canada with her three and a half year

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badr on Saturday said that PPP Co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari would make a final decision on whether or not the PPP would attend the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)'s meeting today (Sunday).
On Saturday, an MQM team led by Farooq Sattar met Jehangir Badr at his residence and invited the PPP to attend MQM's Istehkam-e-Pakistan rally today. Badr welcomed the call but made it clear that a final decision

MUMBAI - Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni warned rivals Sri Lanka to expect a tough contest in Saturday's World Cup final, saying his team had yet to play its best cricket. "There is plenty more to come from us," Dhoni said ahead of the all-Asian clash at the Wankhede stadium.
"We gained momentum as the tournament went on and we are now peaking at the right time." Dhoni said India's intensity had picked up in the knock-out rounds, which helped to defeat defending champions