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UN training fund declares emergency grant in response to floods

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4 months ago

September 25, 2022

UNITED NATIONS: Schooling Can not Wait (ECW), the worldwide fund for training in emergencies and protracted crises, introduced the discharge of an emergency grant price $5 million in response to the lethal floods in Pakistan.

The 12-month funding will attain greater than 80,000 ladies and boys throughout Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, stated the ECW.

“The local weather disaster is an training disaster. These devastating floods have taken lives, destroyed as many as 22,000 faculties […] and ripped households aside,” stated ECW Director Yasmine Sherif.

“We have to act with pace. ECW and our strategic companions are sprinting to ship a fast-acting response to carry youngsters again to high school with out additional delay and deepening struggling.”

The extraordinary monsoon rains in Pakistan have brought on huge flooding and landslides throughout the nation. Greater than 1,400 individuals have misplaced their lives and the federal government estimates that 22,594 faculties have been broken or destroyed, stated the ECW.

The brand new response builds on the ECW’s ongoing Multi-Yr Resilience Programme in Pakistan, and focuses on offering equitable entry to inclusive and high quality studying environments, establishing momentary studying areas, and offering youngsters with the psychosocial helps they should keep away from dropping out of college completely, stated the fund.

Instructing and studying supplies will likely be supplied to youngsters in each formal and momentary studying areas. Academics will likely be supported to adapt their instructing strategies to greatest swimsuit the brand new context. The funding will even be sure that gender-based violence mitigation measures will likely be applied, with a specific concentrate on defending adolescent ladies, stated the ECW.

Worldwide, 222 million crisis-impacted youngsters and adolescents are in want of pressing training help. The ECW and its companions are calling on world leaders to supply at the very least $1.5 billion in pressing funding for the #222MillionDreams marketing campaign.

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Imran Khan was misled by some PTI leaders: Pervaiz Elahi

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7 hours ago

January 27, 2023

Pakistaneo.com

LAHORE: Former Punjab Chief Minister (CM) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has asserted that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was misled by a few of his occasion leaders.

Speaking to journalists in Lahore, Pervaiz Elahi mentioned that his authorities had performed a outstanding job inside a five-month interval, suggesting that the assemblies ought to have accomplished their phrases.

“Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) additionally wished the assemblies to finish their time period,” he mentioned, regretting that Imran Khan was misguided by the individuals sitting left and proper of him.

The previous Punjab CM mentioned that three or 4 PTI leaders have significantly broken Imran Khan-led occasion by misguiding the previous premier. With out naming anybody, Elahi mentioned that if he had been caught earlier, the entire conditions would have come beneath management.

Thanking Imran Khan giving him the possibility to turn into chief minister, Elahi mentioned that PML-Q will contest the following normal elections together with PTI Chairman.

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IHC points notices in journalists’ laws case

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8 hours ago

January 27, 2023

Pakistaneo.com

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) on Thursday issued notices to respondents in a case concerning laws for the safety of journalists’ rights.

Chief Justice Aamer Farooq heard the instances filed by the Worldwide Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), and Islamabad Excessive Court docket Journalists Affiliation (IHCJA).

On the outset of the listening to, the chief justice requested whether or not there was any progress concerning laws for the safety of journalists’ rights because the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Workers (ITNE) chairman had been making efforts in that regard.

Umar Ijaz Gilani Advocate knowledgeable the courtroom that the draft invoice had been despatched to the Info Ministry.

On this, the chief justice remarked that the ITNE was working for the rights of newspapers’ staff and even its chairman had additionally ready a draft invoice in that regard.

He noticed that he couldn’t perceive the legal guidelines associated to newspapers. The lawyer mentioned the ITNE comprised solely a md and now the idea of members and benches was additionally being launched.

CJ Aamer Farooq mentioned the federal government ought to notice the issues and even it was higher if the Parliament handed the laws in that regard.

To a courtroom’s question, anchorperson Hamid Mir mentioned he was in favour of the laws for the journalists of digital media. Former IHC chief justice Athar Minallah had given him an task concerning the “cross-media”, and he had submitted written strategies in that regard.

The chief justice remarked that there was additionally a difficulty of non-payment of journalists’ salaries. The journalists needed to make a number of visits to tribunals for even small quantities (owed by their employers), he famous.

Hamid Mir mentioned many journalists even didn’t have written job proofs. The Pakistan Digital Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) had been licensed within the legislation to guard the rights of journalists, he added.

The chief justice mentioned whether or not there may very well be any resistance on the matter. Hamid Mir replied that it was attainable that the affiliation of media homeowners would possibly create hurdles in it.

The courtroom requested whether or not the incumbent authorities wished to introduce such laws. No authorities ought to have any objection because it was not a political matter, he added.

The courtroom then issued notices to respondents and adjourned of the case until February 6.

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Court docket refuses to difficulty Khan’s arrest warrants

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9 hours ago

January 27, 2023

Pakistaneo.com

ISLAMABAD: A neighborhood court docket in Islamabad has rejected a request from prosecutor to difficulty arrest warrants of Imran Khan Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) in a case regarding hurling risk at feminine choose.

Prosecutor Rizwan Abbasi requested the court docket to difficulty the arrest warrants which the court docket declined.

Sources learnt that saying the reserved verdict on Thursday over Imran Khan’s plea searching for exemption from look, Decide Rana Mujahid Raheem granted exemption from look for sooner or later.

The choose then adjourned the listening to of the case till February 13.