Top Ten Current Affairs Of Pakistan 7 July, 2013
1- Treat them right: Struggle to win rights for beasts of burden
A staggering 4.7 million households in Pakistan depend on working animals for livelihood. They carry unimaginable loads, yet are beaten and underfed. But a 61-year-old tailor is actively working to change the situation for the rights of these animals.
In a country where exploitation of even human labourers seldom raises eyebrows, the idea seems out of place. But Barkatullah is bent upon making the impossible possible. He has spent a long part of his life fighting animal abuse, creating awareness and paying for food and health of sick and abandoned working animals. He now has zeroed in on spearheading a drive for legal and institutional reforms.
2- Bhoja Air crash: IHC forms judicial commission to probe crash
Islamabad High Court on Friday took notice of the delays in investigation of the Bhoja aircraft crash, that took place on April 20 last year killing all of the 152 passengers on board.
The families of the deceased had taken the airline administration to court for its failure in compensating them according to its policies.
3- LUMS, NUST and Aga Khan dominate HEC University Rankings 2013
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) released the “Quality & Research-based Ranking 2013” for Pakistani universities on Friday.
HEC chairman Javaid Laghari said the rankings were based on a criteria that relied on feedback from universities and international rankings models.
“These rankings are supposed to be a mirror – they let the universities know their strengths and weaknesses,” he said.
4- For no fault of her own: The rape, the aftermath
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She swings on her burqa as she downs the thick, sweet chaai in one gulp. The foreman will create a scene if she’s late again today – without Amma, gone to a shrine in interior of Sindh to pray for her marriage, to wake her up, she tends to oversleep.
5- YouTube ban: Ministry of IT says it doesn’t know how to block specific URLs
While turning down a request to temporarily reopen YouTube on Thursday, the Lahore High Court ordered the Ministry of Information Technology to tell the court, on July 25, how it could block access to specific URLs.
The video-sharing website has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012 following protests about a 14-minute trailer of the film Innocence of Muslims.
6- Pakistan, China sign eight agreements, MoUs
akistan and China signed eight cooperation agreements after wide-ranging talks here on Friday between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Premier Li Keqiang, paving the way for inflow of multi-billion dollar Chinese investment in Pakistan and further strengthening the mutually-cherished bilateral strategic relationship.
7- Why is government not recovering looted money, asks CJ
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday said that the apex court kept struggling to safeguard the people’s interests and would continue to do so, adding that a hike in CNG prices was equal to robbing the people.
8- PPP asks govt to get IMF deal approved by parliament
Opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah has asked the government to present the details and conditions regarding the agreement with the IMF in parliament.
“The government should get an approval of the agreement signed with the IMF from parliament,” he said while talking to newsmen at the Parliament House on Friday.
9- Ogra reluctant to stop influential persons: CJ
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday observed that the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) was reluctant to take measures against the influential people who were reportedly involved in gas pilferage.
10- National interest guiding principle in talks with IMF: Dar
Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Senator Ishaq Dar on Friday said that Pakistan had conducted negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on terms and conditions which were in the best interest of the country.
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