HYDERABAD: August 22, 2017. (By Abbas Kassar) Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) was popular uprising in Sindh against hanging of Z.A.Bhutto. Number of arrested political workers of almost all parties was so big that, in words of Maulana Ehtramul Haq Thanvi also a prisoner of military court

NEW DELHI: August 22, 2017. (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled a Muslim instant divorce law unconstitutional, a landmark victory for Muslim women who have spent decades arguing that it violated their right to equality.
The law allows Muslim men to divorce their wives simply by utte

HYDERABAD: August 22, 2017. (By Abbas Kassar) Rights Now Pakistan and Sindh Human Rights Defenders have expressed serious concern that the number of enforced disappearances of human rights activists, political workers and citizens were being reported across the country. This wave of disappearances h

Islamabad: August 20, 2017. (PCP) The Acting British High Commissioner, Mr. Richard Crowder, visited Sialkot to launch a photography exhibition. The exhibition, entitled ‘Shared History. Shared Future.’ showcases 70 years of UK-Pakistan relations and will be open to the general public from 20 to 22

London: August 20, 2017. (PCP) During a devastating week in Europe two terrorist attacks in Spain involving lorries careening into unsuspecting public and frenzied knife attacks in Finland - a country previously overlooked by Islamists - have taken 14 lives and injured over a hundred more.
On Thur

Chandigarh: August 20, 2017. (PCP) Joyful exuberance and high spirits marked the Freshers’ Party organized by students and staff of Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26 on August 19, 2017. Aptly called Freshers’ Party, the purpose of the event was to make the new students feel like an inte

Chandigarh: August 18, 2017. (PCP) The NSS Team of Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector-26, Chandigarh, organized Eye and Dental Screening Camp for their students and staff on August 18, 2017. In all, around 300 students were screened for dental and eye ailments.
The aim of the camp was to

Washington, DC: August 17, 2017. (PCP) On Tuesday August 15, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivered remarks on the release of the 2016 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom (IRF). “America’s promotion of international religious freedom demands standing up for the rights of the world’s

Washington DC: August 17, 2017. (PCP) Voice of the Copts joins with the Coptic Church of Milan, Italy wailing the loss of Bishop Cyril, the Coptic Orthodox Coptic Church of Milan, Italy and Deputy Pope for all of Europe.
Bishop Cyril died in his sleep on Monday, August 14, at age 65. The Coptic com

USA: August 16, 2017. (PCP) The American Sikh Council (ASC) (formerly known as World Sikh Council America Region –WSC-AR) is alarmed and shocked at the ultra-right wing ‘white supremacists’ (terrorists) who took out a march to perpetuate their insidious hate and bigotry against all minorities, peopl

Hyderabad, India: August 16, 2017. Interfaith dialogue is today a pressing necessity in order to overcome deep-rooted negative images about other religions and their adherents and to resolve inter-communal conflicts (in which distorted, supremacist and exclusivist interpretations of religion often h

Hyderabad: August 16, 2017. (Abbas Kassar) Sindh Progressive Committee comprising nationalist and left parties: Jeay Sindh Mahaz, Awami Workers Party, Awami Jamhoori Party and Communist Party of Pakistan, has expressed deep concern and grief over what they called as worst sort of violations of basic

Hyderabad: August 16, 2017. (BY ABBAS KASSAR) Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz(Ariser) chairman Mir Alam Mari has sent appeals to PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Senate chairman Raza Rabbani and Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah for recovery of more than 60 Sindhis whisked away by unknown personnel and

Islamabad: August 14, 2017. (PCP) The UK’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to mark Pakistan’s 70th anniversary of Independence. In his message to Pakistan, Boris Johnson said:
“On behalf of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, I wish the people of Pakistan the very best on th

Chandigarh: August 12, 2017. (PCP) Festivity was in the air at Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, Chandigarh as the students and staff celebrated the vibrant and joyous festival of Teej. The students dressed up in Indian traditional wear of bright hues and looked like flowers in the lus