Prime Minister Imran says, answering a question by a woman about the grisly murder of Noor Mukadam in Islamabad; and what steps the government would take for women’s safety; Prime Minister says; he had been following the Noor murder case from the first day and termed it a “horrifying” incident. Citing details provided to him, […]
Facebook has agreed to restore Australian news pages after the government offered amendments to legislation that would force tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms. The deal on Tuesday came amid a standoff that lasted more than a week between the Australian government and the social media group over the so-called […]
Facebook has blocked Australian users of its platform from reading and sharing local and international news, stepping up its campaign against government plans to force technology giants to pay publishers for their news content. “The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and publishers who use it to share news content,” Facebook said […]
China’s market regulator has released new anti-monopoly guidelines aimed at internet platforms; tightening existing restrictions faced by the country’s technology giants. The new rules, published on Sunday, formalize an earlier anti-monopoly draft law released in November and clarify a series of monopolistic practices that regulators plan to crack down on. The guidelines are expected to […]
Google has threatened to block Australian users from accessing its search service; unless the government changes proposed legislation to make the internet giant pay news outlets for their content. Google Australia Managing Director Mel Silva told a senate committee in Canberra on Friday; that if the current draft media laws went ahead unchanged; it would […]
Pakistan has lifted all restrictions on visas for Bangladeshi citizens, a move being seen as an ice breaker in the frosty relations between the two Muslim-majority countries in South Asia. “Pakistan has already removed all restrictions on Pakistani visas for Bangladeshi citizens”; said a statement by the Pakistan High Commission in Bangladesh; after a meeting […]
The U.S. Congress has passed the ‘Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act’ which will expand the number of scholarships available to Pakistani women to receive higher education under a merit and needs-based programme. The bill requires the USAID to award at least 50% of scholarships under a Pakistan-based higher education; scholarship programme to Pakistani women. Passed by […]
Pakistan has become the first Muslim country to make it illegal for a man to take dowry. In the latest development by the Minister of Religious Affairs of Pakistan has decided to ban the tradition of dowry, in which the groom and his family ask for a dowry and then they put it on display. […]
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) cabinet, in its meeting has approved the KP School Bags Act 2019 which limits the weight of the bags of the students. With that, KP has become the first province to introduce any law regarding the weight of the school bags. The Provincial Minister for Education Shahram Khan Tarakai said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
