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It takes a lot to rattle Leena Ghani. As an artist turned activist helping to raise the voices of Pakistan’s women, she has often fielded abuse, threats and harassment.
But when she learned, on a morning in late September, that police had charged her for criminal defamation, linked to Pakistan’s most high-profile #MeToo case, Ghani says she was shaken. “In terms of silencing and demonising people speaking out against sexual assault, it was a new low even for Pakistan,” she says.
Ghani was not alone. Eight others were also named in the case, facing three years in jail for criminal defamation. Some only learned of their involvement through a newspaper article.
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PML-N leader Hina Butt claims she graduated from LUMS with 3.98 GPA
Punjab lawmaker makes revelation responding to whether she earned position based on wealth, influence on talk show
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hina Pervaiz Butt has claimed that she graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) with a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.98.
She made the revelation while responding to a question posed to her by anchor Mansoor Ali Khan on
Express News.
میں لمز کی گریجویٹ ہوں 3.98 GPA ہے، حنا بٹ
توبہ توبہ یہ تو چھوڑنے میں سب کو پیچھے چھوڑ گئی pic.twitter.com/MtLTLBJrW9 Hamza Shakil (@PTI Lion26) January 10, 2021
Hina was asked on the television show whether she became a member of Punjab Assembly on a reserved seat the basis of her wealth and contacts. She said it was not right to “say such a thing about women who become lawmakers on reserved seats”.
NUST team conferred winner’s prize
Islamabad
January 3, 2021
Islamabad : With a view to recognising a team of young enterprising students from NUST who stood out at the first-ever PTCL-hosted hackathon – Ideas Hackathon, an award ceremony was held at the headquarters of PTCL here the other day.
Members of the winning team were conferred medals, certificates and cash prize as a token of appreciation for their ingenuity and stupendous performance. A virtual competition held from October to November 2020, the hackathon was aimed at fostering innovation in a structured scheme of idea evaluation and, in so doing, accentuating the value of idea sharing in a challenging time-bound environment.
The writer is a former dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lums.
I RECENTLY visited public high schools in two villages in Mandi Bahauddin district. I was impressed by the insights of their heads on the merits of various languages of instruction. They regretted not being consulted on the matter and I couldn’t agree more with them.
I had one incongruous visual impression pertaining to the names of the schools that might seem peripheral to many. In villages with every student a native speaker of Punjabi and Urdu the medium of instruction, the names of schools, written in both Urdu and English, were comprised entirely of English words ‘government’, ‘girls’, ‘high’, and ‘school’.