Islamabad: July 9, 2018. (PCP) A commitment on the rights, freedom, dignity and inclusion of people with disabilities was endorsed today in a summit hosted by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This summit was organised as a satellite event in connection with the Global Disabi

Lahore: July 9, 2018. Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) today launched a reporting and monitoring mechanism for election related violence directed against media personnel and institutions.
The reporting mechanism will facilitate journalists and other media personnel to report violence directed agains

Islamabad: July 1, 2018. (PCP) Patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hindu Council Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, in order to get rid of heavy foreign debts, has proposed to adopt a transparent mechanism for open auction of all property under the Evacuee Trust Property Board.
Dr Ramesh Vankwani, in an open lette

USA: June 28, 2018. (PCP) The American Sikh Council (ASC) condemns the inhuman and cruel treatment by our government in handling infants and small children by being separated from their parents at the US-Mexican border.
It is tragic and ironic that a President who has his own children does not und

Chandigarh: June 28, 2018. (PCP) The Marine Academy & TMC Shipping organized Marathon on International Day of Seafarer to support career in Merchant Navy. The Marathon began from Sector 4, Panchkula to Chandigarh and Culminated back at Starting vanue. As many as aprox. 800 residents participated in

HYDERABAD: June 18, 2018. (Abbas Kassar) Human Rights Coordination Committee has made appeal to state institutions, federal and Sindh government to release all those people in their custody victims of enforced disappearances and missing persons on the occasion of Eid so to meet their family waiting

Ref:- Veterans should start thinking of solving Kashmir problem which is humiliating India immensely. It is not only the murder by terrorists in Srinagar on June, 14 of Journalist Shujat Bhukhari which has stunned, outraged and shocked India. Otherwise also the way Pakistan (~ one sixth of India in

Karachi: June 12, 2018. (PCP) The UK is providing emergency medical treatment to people at risk from a deadly heatwave that has seen temperatures in Pakistan reach as high as 45°C, significantly hotter than the temperature in London today which is expected to reach 24°C.
UK aid is providing relief

Islamabad: June 8, 2018. (PCP) The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has funded 30 heat stroke relief camps in the most deprived areas of Karachi to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to those in need.
To respond to the risk of losing human lives, DFID is supporting the

New Delhi: June 8, 2018. (PCP) Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party shall be visiting thousands of suffering villagers at International Border with Pakistan and LoC which falls in J&K. Prof.Bhim Singh shall meet the suffering, homeless and starving villagers in thousands from Poo

London: June 8, 2018. (CSW) CSW has learned that a Christian named Mohammadali Yassaghi, known as 'Estifan', was arrested on 10 April 2018, accused of ‘spreading propaganda against the establishment’ and later transported to Babol prison in the province of Mazandaran.
A 52 year-old father of three

Washington DC: June 8, 2018. (PCP) On May 31, 2018 attacks by the local Khasi-Indian tribesmen started, subsequent to an argument between a local Sikh woman and a Khasi-Indian bus conductor in reference to a bus improperly parked in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. The Sikh woman was further harassed by

Chandigarh: June 2, 2018. (PCP) The College Prospectus of Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, for the Session 2018-19 was released by Col (Retd) J S Bala, Secretary, Sikh Educational Society and the College Principal, Dr Jatinder Kaur on June 1, 2018. The Prospectus is available on College Website,

Islamabad: June 2, 2018. (PCP) The UK-funded Karandaaz will triple the impact of a leading health diagnostic service provider and set up a unique warehouse for agricultural produce in Punjab. These two investments are expected to create more than 900 new jobs in Pakistan. This was announced today at

Islamabad: May 30, 2018. (PCP) International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP has appointed banker Simon Penney as new HM Trade Commissioner for South Asia and the Middle East. He will oversee trade promotion and investment while raising the profile of the region in the UK and building stronger and de