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Damned if you call out harassment, damned if you don’tNATIONAL

Damned if you call out harassment, damned if you don’t

The sun was rising on Karachi as Sara hailed a local bus to commute to class. Carefully, she tried to balance a book bag and her water bottle in her hands in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/04/damned-if-you-call-out-harassment-damned-if-you-dont/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jan 4, 2019
‘The fetishism of commodities’NATIONAL

‘The fetishism of commodities’

Today, consumption is an obsessive-compulsive disorder or a cultural epidemic (whatever sounds scarier). Nothing hits material insecurities more than the modern advertising industry. They hog all the pretty women and talented photographers<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/29/the-fetishism-of-commodities/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 29, 2018
Pakistani filmmaker shines at international film festivalsArts / Entertainment

Pakistani filmmaker shines at international film festivals

–With Dust to Dust (2017), Mahnoor Zaidi aims to discuss cemetery ‘taboo’ by filming regular life of graveyard worker Dust to Dust, a 2017 Student Academy Awards semi-finalist documentary, traces the thought<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/07/pakistani-filmmaker-shines-at-international-film-festivals/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 7, 2018
Activist Gulalai Ismail released on bail after brief detention by FIANATIONAL

Activist Gulalai Ismail released on bail after brief detention by FIA

ISLAMABAD: Pashtun human rights activist and founder of Seeds of Peace network Gulalai Ismail, who is an active member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), was released on bail on Friday evening after the Federal<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/12/activist-gulalai-ismail-released-on-bail-after-brief-detention-by-fia/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Oct 12, 2018
Law criminalising enforced disappearances to be drafted soon: Farhatullah BabarNATIONAL

Law criminalising enforced disappearances to be drafted soon: Farhatullah Babar

PPP leader says govt had no idea at that time detention centres would become Abu Ghraib prisons of Pakistan DHRPK Chairperson Amina Masood Janjua says missing persons have become notes, facts, petitions instead of<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/10/law-criminalising-enforced-disappearances-to-be-drafted-soon-farhatullah-babar/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Oct 10, 2018
Restaurant owner accuses DHA SDO of demanding bribe, harassing female employeeLAHORE

Restaurant owner accuses DHA SDO of demanding bribe, harassing female employee

Umer Hussain claims WAPDA employees tampered with electricity meter when refused a bribe Accuses DHA SDO of cutting off electricity meter without notice DHA SDO denies accusations, says shop overloaded electricity meter<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/28/restaurant-owner-accuses-dha-sdo-of-demanding-bribe-harassing-female-employee/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sep 28, 2018
Privacy breach fears loom over Punjab Safe City ProjectLAHORE

Privacy breach fears loom over Punjab Safe City Project

Digital rights activist says no policy in place to ensure protection of citizens’ data PSCA officials say data ‘absolutely secure’ per global security standards LAHORE: People and digital rights activists have criticised<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/18/privacy-breach-fears-loom-over-punjab-safe-city-project/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Aug 18, 2018
Liberals ki akhri sazish, a first for PakistanLAHORE

Liberals ki akhri sazish, a first for Pakistan

LAHORE: The floor was lined with cushions as people made their way into the soundproofed room. Kanwal Khoosat’s voice rang from behind the blinds as she introduced the ‘queen’ and urged the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/13/pakistans-first-drag-comedy-opens-at-olo-junction/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Aug 13, 2018