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The Sindhi language has a long history of arts, literature, and culture. The first Sindhi newspaper was Sind Sudhar, founded in 1884. Sindhi language newspapers played a vital role for Independence in 1947; In 1920, Al-Wahid newspaper published by Haji Abdullah Haroon in Karachi.
Founded on 4 April 2004 From Quetta balochistan. Online (digital) publication started in 2011. 3. The Dayspring [4] Fortnightly. English. Islamabad. 2018. Pakistan first youth centric news agency independent newspaper of Dayspring Media, launched on 1 November 2018.
The Friday Times was first published in May 1989. [ 4] TFT's founder-editor Najam Sethi and publisher Jugnu Mohsin, a husband-and-wife team, are recipients of international awards conferred by Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists. [ 5][ 3] In 2009, Sethi also won the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom ...
The founder, chief editor and publisher, Rehmat Shah Afridi, has been termed a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty International due to his longstanding struggle for democracy and media freedom in Pakistan; [5] Afridi was arrested in 1999. [6] Jalil Afridi had been running The Frontier Post as its Managing Editor since 1999. [citation needed]
The Daily Express ( Urdu: روزنامہ ایکسپریس) is one of Pakistan 's most widely circulated Urdu-language newspapers owned by Lakson Group. [ 1][ 2] It is published simultaneously from Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Rahim Yar Khan and Sukkar. [ 3][ 1]
The Punjab Commission on Status of Women ( PCSW) is a human rights institution in Pakistan, which was established by the Government of Punjab in March 2014 under the PCSW Act, 2014. [1] Its mandate is to work for the empowerment of women, expansion of opportunities for socio-economic development of women, and elimination of all forms of ...
Rank. 135th out of 191. Global Gender Gap Index [ 2] Value. 0.575 (2023) Rank. 142th out of 146 (2023) Women in Pakistan make up 48.76% of the population according to the 2017 census of Pakistan. [ 3] Women in Pakistan have played an important role throughout Pakistan's history [ 4] and they are allowed to vote in elections since 1956. [ 5]
Women's Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) is a non-partisan informal forum for women parliamentarians of Pakistan. It was established on 21 November 2008 through a unanimous resolution passed by the Women Parliamentarians beyond party lines. [60] Former Speaker National Assembly of Pakistan Dr. Fehmida Mirza is the patron in-chief of the caucus. [61] Dr.