Day: February 14, 2007

SWABI – Senate Chairman Muhammadian Soomro has said that we should encourage females to join engineering profession because they have the capabilities to arm themselves with its different disciplines and play their constructive role in the nation-building process.

He was addressing the concluding ceremony of International Parliamentary Debates at Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of Engineering Sciences. Three Indian teams also participated in the competition.

Federal Minister Inter Provincial Coordination Salim Saifullah Khan also attended the ceremony as a guest of honour.

Appreciating the active participation of the females in the contest Soomro said, “The females have the potential to excel in different fields. Usually the girls clinched the top positions in both boards and universities examinations.
We have to equip our young generation with the latest technologies and skills so as to broaden the base of knowledge based economy.

Source: The Nation

Date:2/14/2007

Sub heading-Speaker sends bill to Select Committee

ISLAMABAD – Although marred by the lack of quorum during the initial half an hour, the National Assembly added another bill to an already huge pile of legislative business to be disposed by it during last parliamentary year.

Ch Shujat Hussain introduced the Prevention of Anti­Women Practices Bill, 2006.

He suggested that the bill should be sent to the select committee instead of the standing committee for further review of its technical aspects, as there were more opposition members in the select committee.

“This bill is a proof of PML­Q’s pro-women policies and broadmindedness,” he said while commenting on his party’s efforts to protect women from being harassed, humiliated and dishonoured.

The Speaker therefore referred the bill to the select committee.
Source: The News
Date:2/14/2007

KARACHI: The process of registration for the induction of women as captains in the Pakistan Army’s corps of electrical and mechanical engineers, ordinance corps and law branch, has commenced, stated an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release.

After the completion of registration, a written test as well as a personality assessment and intelligence test would be conducted from February 19 to 22, at all army selection and recruitment centres, including those at Karachi and Hyderabad.

The test for the candidates of Army Aviation will be held on February 23. After success in the initial tests and graduation from the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, women cadets would be inducted as captains through a direct short service commission. Further details are available on the Pakistan

Army’s website: www.joinpakarmy.gov.pk.

Source: Daily Times

Date:2/14/2007

Acid-throwing case

KARACHI: A young girl named Sakina Solangi, who received serious burn injuries after acid was thrown at her, was to be shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi Tuesday.

She received severe burn injuries on 45 percent of her body, including an ear, after a man she had refused to marry threw acid at her. Sakina hailsfrom Bhiria City (Naushero Feroz district). She was rushed to Nawabshah, and was admitted to the Nawabshah Medical College Hospital, where her condition was said to be critical.

However, when Daily Times checked up at the CHK Burns Ward on Tuesday evening, Sakina had not arrived yet. Doctors on duty said that she was probably en route to the hospital as it takes six to eight hours to travel from Nawabshah to Karachi. staff report

Source: DAily Times

Date:2/14/2007

KHAIRPUR: A newly married woman committed suicide by taking pesticide in the Ahmedpur police limits here on Tuesday, police said.

Police reports said that Zubaida, 19, wife of Allah Rakhyo Panhyar, committed suicide in the Ghullan Panhyar village. The Ahmedpur police shifted her body to Taluka Hospital Kingri for an autopsy. However, no postmortem was performed and the body was buried without any medico-legal formalities.

The News has learnt that the parents of Zubaida had married her off without her consent.

Source: The News

Date:2/14/2007