Tag: Society

LAHORE - Zahida Kazmi, hailed as Pakistan's first female taxi driver, has driven from the crowded markets of Islamabad to the remote tribal country in the north, reports the BBC. In 1992 at the age of 33, newly-widowed Zahida decided to take her fate in her own hands and become a taxi driver, although she was born into a conservative and patriarchal family but had six children to support.
She took advantage of a government scheme to buy a yellow cab on easy instalments and drove

GUJRANWALA - Sportsman spirit is required in all walks of life to nourish not only educational activities but also to make the society healthy and competitive.
It was stated by DCO Nabil Ahmad Awan while addressing first sports day of Gujranwala Medical College the other day. Principal Dr Atiya Mubarak, EDO Health Dr Nisar Ahmad Cheema and others also participated in the inaugural ceremony.
The DCO said, "Medical education is the most hectic and the students should come

KARACHI - A constitutional petition was filed in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday, seeking the restoration of the Jaffar Tayyar Cooperative Society, which was declared dissolved by the government. It also pleaded to conduct a probe over the occupation of lands by cooperatives societies.

KARACHI - The Master Mariners Society of Pakistan (MMSP) has decided to raise the issue of the Pakistani merchant marine officers, who are in Somalian pirates' custody, in international forums. According to MMSP Office Secretary MM Ahmad Zuberi, the society is set to raise the captivity issue of the officers if the MMSP is approached by the officers' families.
The case of now-deceased MMSP life-member Capt Syed Jafer Jafri was pursued at all local and international forums by the

ISLAMABAD - A special audit has identified irregularities worth Rs 51,504,835 by the ex-managing committee in connivance with the developer in the development expenditure and purchase of land of the Senate (Sectt) Employees Cooperative Housing Society Islamabad. According to the audit report, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Today, the development contractor M/s Raja Ishtiaq Associates was found involved in the financial irregularities worth of Rs 50,732,217. According to

Lahore - The Punjab chapter of the Red Crescent Society organized a youth training camp at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), which continued for three days. On the first day of the camp, the students were informed about the humanitarian work of the Red Crescent Society. On the second day, first aid training, emergency response and antidote to snake venom was imparted, while on the third day disaster management and training of the youth was ensured. A youth club was

Lahore - British House of Lords member Lord Nazir Ahmad attended the opening ceremony of an education project James's new campus at Ravi Block on Monday. He said, "No society can prosper without education; a homogenous education system for both rich and poor is the need of the hour." He said if the politicians wanted democracy they should prefer national interest to individual interests.
Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Lahore President Mian Mahmood-ur-Rasheed, Cahirman, Zafar

COMMENT - Nowadays corruption is not only the focus of the print and electronic media, it is a topic on which nearly every Pakistani, rich or poor, educated or un-educated, has something to say and can and does speak ad nauseam - so rampant it is. Stories of corruption by sections of the military, judiciary, politicians, personnel of different state departments, abound and add to the despair and hopelessness of the situation.
Discussions on corruption usually begin with problems

LAHORE - The Pakistan Red Crescent Society Punjab chapter organised a five-day first aid training workshop at the Lady Emerson Hall of the Red Crescent Society on Tuesday. Punjab University Pharmacy Department students participated in the workshop, which imparted emergency response training, first aid to heart attack and burn patients and ways of shifting patients to hospitals.
At the workshop's conclusion, Punjab Red Crescent Society Secretary Brigadier (r) Muhammad Saleem

ISLAMABAD: The report of the National Assembly's (NA) Standing Committee on House and Library has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court over the scam in the NA Employees Cooperative Housing Society. Justice Riaz Ahmed on Friday heard a petition filed by former Islamabad deputy commissioner Chaudhry Asadullah Faiz.
The petitioner contended that the NA body's report was not based on facts and corruption charges against him in the report were baseless.
He asked the court

ISLAMABAD - After a strong protest by the religious parties over the issue of American national Raymond Davis, who shot dead two people in Lahore last month, the civil society has also come up with the same demand that he should not be handed over to the United States and treated according to the law of the country.
The civil society members on Wednesday staged a demonstration in front of Parliament House Islamabad, which was attended by a large number of people, including

LAHORE - Doctors are the most qualified people in society and they should behave accordingly, Sheikh Zayed Hospital Chairman and Dean Dr Saeed said on Friday. He made these remarks while meeting all doctors of the hospital to reassure them that his office would work as a coordinating office and he wants to facilitate doctors in order to make working environment more conducive.
Saeed was very keen to listen to doctors' problems and promised to solve and rectify them.

LAHORE - The families of the drag race tragedy victims have absolved the Bahria Town management, of all the blames. The tragedy took place on 5 December 2010 in Phase VIII of Bahria Town, when one of the driver lost control over his car and it rammed into spectators. Five people died in the accident.
The case registered by the police had nominated Bahria Town management as co-accused. The families representing the deceased and the injured; Lt. Col (R) Javed Iqbal and Mrs. Kausar

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been asked to investigate irregularities in the affairs of National Institute of Electronic Employees Cooperative Housing Society (NIEECHS) as its management has sold 33 kanals of land worth Rs 250 million without the consent of members and allottees of the society.
A source told Pakistan Today that the employees of National Institute of Electronics (NIE) had initiated a housing society NIEECHS with the approval of

ISLAMABAD - National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (R) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah said on Wednesday that the corruption has overwhelmed the entire society and it must be dealt seriously. He expressed these views while chairing the NAB's Executive Board Meeting held here on Wednesday at the NAB headquarters.
The meeting also approved four references to be filed in respective accountability courts. These include references against Noor Jamal from Pak PWD for assets

PESHAWAR - Speakers at a seminar here on Sunday urged upon government to ensure the supremacy of the law and equal rights of the citizens and eliminate indiscrimination on the basis of gender and cast.
The seminar was held by an NGO called Shed. The moot was titled "Voice for Peace". Speakers said that government had totally failed in providing security, justice and maintaining law and order situation in the country and hence giving rise to the killings and insecurity increasing

LAHORE - From the society's double standards to the evolution of social system and from balancing time and space to deeper symbolism of things are just some of the topics that create the crux of the exhibition titled 'What Next!'
Ejaz Art Gallery opened its doors for this unique exhibition by six young and potentially talented artists; Anam Khaliq, Aqeel Abbas, Dua Abbas Rizvi, Madiha Sikander, Rafia Butt and Usman Alvi. These young guns are vibrant in their individualistic