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Pakistan Radio Series Against “Honour Killings”
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The Pakistan chapter of the UK-based international NGO, Oxfam, has recently begun broadcasting a radio series aimed at raising public awareness of honour killings. Oxfam aims to reduce social acceptance of such killings through a six-year campaign aiming at significantly reducing the number of women killed under the banner of ‘honour’. The twenty-minute programme …
Continue reading »Pakistani Literati Delighted at Liberal Sindhi Writer’s Award
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jang.com.pk
By nominating renowned Sindhi writer and intellectual Sobho Gayan Chandani for Kamal-e-Funn Award 2004, the Pakistan Academy of Letters has taken the initiative to recognise the lifetime literary achievement of a regional language writer for the first time and set an example of promoting the spirit of literary harmony between all regional languages of Pakistan. …
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