National
March 1, 2021
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Speakers at a workshop here on Sunday stressed the need for promoting interfaith harmony for the socioeconomic development of society.
The two-day workshop was organized by Pakistan Institution of Peace Studies (PIPS) at a hotel here.
A large number of students attended the workshop. The first day session of the workshop was moderated by the resource persons Muhammad Aamir Rana and Mujtaba Rathor.
The speakers underlined the need for creating awareness about the importance of the interfaith harmony among the students and other segments of the society.
The workshop participants also discussed cultural diversity and its role in the promotion of interfaith harmony.
Socioeconomic development linked to interfaith harmony
National
March 1, 2021
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Speakers at a workshop here on Sunday stressed the need for promoting interfaith harmony for the socioeconomic development of society.
The two-day workshop was organized by Pakistan Institution of Peace Studies (PIPS) at a hotel here. A large number of students attended the workshop. The first day session of the workshop was moderated by the resource persons Muhammad Aamir Rana and Mujtaba Rathor.
The speakers underlined the need for creating awareness about the importance of the interfaith harmony among the students and other segments of the society. The workshop participants also discussed cultural diversity and its role in the promotion of interfaith harmony. The speakers maintained that the diversity and cultures in the society were the virtual products of over the time interaction among human beings.
February 28, 2021
The Daska incidents have raised questions about the Election Commission’s ability to hold free and fair elections
Daska looked like a war zone on the polling day. “It was like a scene from an Indian movie. Bullets were being shot in random directions on the streets and there was no one to stop it. It had never been like this here, ever,” Abid Mehdi, a local journalist, told
The News on Sunday. Mehdi works for a national newspaper
.
Eyewitness accounts of by election in Daska, NA-75, are alarming. Two polling agents lost their lives. They were identified as Pakistan Tehreej-i-Insaf’s Majid and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Zeeshan. The deaths were reported from a polling station set up at Government Boys High School Goindkey-Bombaanwala. Two other PML-N supporters, Sajid and Fahad, were seriously injured.