A seminar titled “Challenges Faced by Police and Journalists in the Digital Era” was organised by the Sindh police with the Crime Reporters Association. The seminar was held at the Driving Licence Branch Clifton on 18-February-2025. Sindh IGP Ghulam Nabi Memon, Additional
Despite constituting nearly half of Pakistan’s population, women account for only 5% of the federal government’s civilian workforce. According to the Pakistan Public Administration Research Centre, out of more than 1.2 million federal employees, only 49,508 are women. This stark underrepresentation persists
KARACHI: While nurses have a critical role in improving healthcare access and quality, their workforce in Pakistan is highly underpaid and overworked — two key barriers impeding their performance and growth, shared speakers at a seminar held on 4th February at Hamdard
The conference underscored severe, ongoing issues in the textile and garment industries KARACHI. Experts and union leaders demanded on January 24 that employees in the garment and textile industries be given their due rights, including standard salaries and protections, while rejecting the
KARACHI: Amid their ongoing province-wide boycott of academic activities, protesting university teachers took to the streets on 22nd January and demanded that the government withdraw its plan to appoint bureaucrats as vice chancellors of public sector universities and notification regarding the hiring
HYDERABAD: Experts at a two-day international conference on 16th January called for women’s participation in decision-making and agricultural practices through education and capacity-building programs and underscored the need for empowerment of rural women in livestock management through targeted training and resource allocation
KARACHI: Teachers representing the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (Fapuasa) on 15th January announced that they would suspend teaching activities on all campuses across the province from 16th January (today) in protest over several government decisions including a plan
The Sindh government has announced a plan to provide jobless young people with electric vehicles (EV) in easy instalments, with the objective of offering them a sustainable livelihood while promoting environmental sustainability. The initiative, which aims to deal with the rising unemployment
PAKISTAN’S first comprehensive occupational safety and health (OSH) profile exposes the inadequacies of worker protection in a country where over 72m people constitute the formal workforce. It arrives against a backdrop of preventable industrial tragedies: the 2012 Baldia factory fire in Karachi,
HYDERABAD: Sindh Higher Education Commission’s chairman, Prof Dr S.M. Tariq Rafi, has lamented that the government spends huge amounts of public money to prepare doctors, who can serve the community but if female students, who dominate medical institutions, do not join the