Tag: Society

LAHORE: Society for Protection of the Rights of Child (SPARC), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), launched a campaign against child marriage on Sunday by organising a press conference at the Lahore Press Club. SPARC Programme Coordinator Imran Javed Qureshi said that the NGO had launched a two-week campaign titled "Stop Child Marriage", as child marriages were illegal, basic root cause of many family disputes and injurious to the girl's health owing to early pregnancy and other

LAHORE: Provision of basic rights to every citizen can help transform any society into a strong and economically vibrant nation, Punjab Minorities Minister Kamran Michael said on Friday. He expressed these views while addressing a seminar held in connection with the World Human Rights Day. Michael said that when any state falls prey to dictatorship, it leaves a negative impact on all its political and social institutions. It was regrettable that in Pakistan a sorry state of affairs

KARACHI: The Civil Society representatives of the country have sough implementation on the Upper House's resolution for writing off of the foreign debts.
In a letter sent to the Senate Chairman Farooq H Naek, the signatories, who had attended the Pakistan Development Forum meeting this month, expressed concerns over the Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh's disowning of the call for debt waiver, Pakistan Today learnt on Sunday.
He had said both during the Forum and subsequently

The Pak-US Strategic Dialogue is taking place only because everyone, including Uncle Sam, knows that the US interest in Pakistan is mainly because of its own major problems in Afghanistan.
Pakistan is central to any solution in the long-suffering country, the US recognises that Pakistan's stability and well-being is vital for peace and prosperity in Afghanistan.
Gen David Petraeus' predecessor, Gen Stanley McChrystal, recognised that all ethnicities, particularly the