“Sexual Harassment at workplace”, training session for Journalists by PPF

KARACHI, January 10, 2015: The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in collaboration with Free Press Unlimited is holding a 3-day residential training workshop, from 14th till 16th January, for journalists, in Islamabad.

The workshop titled as “Safety and Security Training workshop for Journalists”, will bring together more than 25 journalists from more than 10 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa and Punjab provinces, including Hangu, Peshawar, Kohat, Jamrud, D.I Khan, Swat, Abbotabad, Mardan, Mansehra, Multan, Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

First day of the training workshop is designed to provide journalists with first hand training about coverage of incidents related civil disturbance. Second day provides with first aid and trauma/mental health training whereas, third day focuses on sexual harassment and digital security.

Prior to this training workshop, PPF and FPU have conducted 5 successful residential and non-residential Safety and Security Training workshops for Journalists in 5 districts of Sindh province.

Pakistan Press Foundation

Probe into minor girl’s rape, murder completed

rape case

LARKANA: The judicial remand of a young suspect arrested along with his two alleged accomplices in a kidnapping, criminal assault and murder of a five-year-old girl was on Friday extended for another three days and he was sent to the juvenile jail after verification of his age.

The other two suspects, who had been in police remand for about a week, were also remanded in judicial custody for three days.

All three suspects were produced before Larkana Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Mohammed Riaz Rajput on Friday on the expiry of their respective remand.

The victim’s body was found dumped in a house located in Yar Mohammed Kalhoro Colony within the jurisdiction of the Waleed police station on Dec 27, 2014 and her post-mortem reports verified assault, criminal assault and strangulation.

The police informed the judge that an investigation into the case had been completed and a final charge-sheet against the suspects would be submitted on Monday, sources said.

Daily Dawn