Tag: Sindhi

A complete shutter-down and wheel-jam strike was observed across Sindh on Wednesday, officials said. However, life in a few areas of Karachi remained per routine....

MQM chief Altaf Hussain said on Wednesday that so-called Sindhi nationalists are busy in spreading hatred against Urdu speakers under a well-planned strategy. In...

Pakistani rural women’s first-ever fashion brand ‘Sughar’ was launched by the Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) on Friday. These women from remote villages of Sindh and...

The English media in the country is not the only progressive and moderate forum to express liberal thoughts and views, the Sindhi literature is...

In the age of enlightenment and full of knowledge explosion, a library (both physical and virtual) holds central position in every part of the...

Sindhi nationalists on Sunday termed the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) bill regarding formation of South Punjab and Hazara provinces as a conspiracy to divide...

The provincial Culture Department approved six development schemes on Sunday that would cost Rs 184.51 million, including the translation of books written by the...

The mysterious disappearance of two Hindu businessmen from Mirpurkhas, home to over 90 percent of Pakistan’s three million Hindu citizens, has sparked not just...

The detail of assets of the women lawmakers of the Punjab and Sindh assemblies filed with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday...

KARACHI - The federal government is showing reluctance to financing the establishment of the China Industrial Zone that is aimed at promoting industrialisation in Sindh, sources in the provincial government have informed Pakistan Today. Under President Asif Ali Zardari's initiative, the Sindh government had decided to set up the China Industrial Zone at Shahdadpur in Sanghar district, adjacent to some small industries already operating in the region, to promote industrialisation in

KARACHI -The nations who forget their language and culture are nowhere to be found on the planet, said Sindh Katchi Abadis and Spatial Development Minister Rafique Engineer. He said this while addressing the closing session of the two-day national literary conference on 'Analysis of promotion of Sindhi language and literature' organised by the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) Sindhi Department in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC)

KARACHI - The federal government should give Sindhi and other local languages of the country the status of a national language besides taking special measures for their promotion, demanded speakers at a literacy conference on Tuesday. The two-day national literary conference on 'Analysis of promotion of Sindhi language and literature' is being organised by the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) Sindhi Department in collaboration with the Higher Education

KARACHI - There has been no let-up in gender-based violence in Sindh, reveals a six-month report compiled by the Aurat Foundation (AF) in collaboration with Irish NGO Trocaire.
PML-F MPA Marvi Rashdi, AF Karachi Resident Director Mahnaz Rahman, AF representatives Shireen Aijaz and Fareeda Tahir, and others formally launched the report titled 'Policy and Data Monitor on Violence against Women' based on the period between July and December 2010, at the Karachi Press Club on

KARACHI: Following the lead of Sindhi language television channels, Sindh government, Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM), Sindhi nationalists' parties, NGOs and common citizens of Sindh, and now the USA have all supported the 'Sindhi Topi Day' celebrations on December 4.
US Consular General in Karachi William Martin hosted a tea party on Saturday at his residence for the journalists of Sindhi newspapers and television channels to express his support for the 'Sindhi Topi Day'. Martin

KARACHI: The political parties of Sindh, including the PPP, the PML-N and the PML-Q, are united in their opposition to the MQM's demand that agriculture income should be taxed.
The MQM, which has remained a staunch advocate of taxing the agriculture sector, has strongly raised the issue with the government again. MQM leaders have presented 9 recommendations to a team of the federal government as an alternative to the reformed GST, and on the top of list is the imposition of tax