March 26, 2019

Azadi Ki Zaban

  Azadi ki Zabaan   If  “Azadi” was a product , marketed by the TV channels, repeating a very moving line, sung by a great singer, […]
March 26, 2019

A Matter Of Honour

A Matter of ‘Honour’   Sixty three years of Pakistan’s  pent-up  ‘honour’,   sovereignty,  ‘ghairat’,  ‘hammiat’ and  ‘izzat’, have  finally been shaken out of  deep slumber by […]
March 26, 2019

Visit To DG SCPA

Visit to HelpLine 1121 of the Sindh Child protection Authority ST4  Block 7 Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, (021) 99243789 on 18 March 2019   Zubia […]
March 26, 2019

Punjab Child Protection Bill 2017

PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PUNJAB N O T I F I C A T I O N 13 June 2017 No.PAP/Legis-2(164)/2017/1618.      The following Bill, which was […]
March 26, 2019

The State Of Children In Pakistan The State Of Children In Pakistan

March 26, 2019

KHH Report on reforms

A report on reforms in laws, procedures and police to create a system that protects the children and vulnerable segments of Pakistani society. Intro:   Year […]
March 26, 2019

Law In Pakistan

Section 1: Minority Age According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child [1], the term “child ” means “every human being below the age […]
March 26, 2019

Relevant Laws and Practices in Pakistan and other Countries

  Missing Children’s Cases and Reporting & Investigation by Police: Relevant Laws and Practices in Pakistan and other Countries Roshni Helpline in collaboration with SZABIST Legal […]
March 26, 2019

ACTS Laws Pakistan

SINDH Sindh Child Protection Authority Act 2011 http://www.pas.gov.pk/uploads/acts/Sindh%20Act%20No.XIV%20of%202011.pdf   PUNJAB THE PUNJAB DESTITUTE AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN ACT 2004  modified in 2007 https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/86156/97026/F532039662/PAK86156.pdf also https://cpwb.punjab.gov.pk/system/files/PDNC%20act%202004.pdf http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws/472.html   amended […]
March 26, 2019

Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Certification Manual

March 26, 2019

Unchaining the elephants – and the minds of our zoo managers

    We agreed to disagree. That may be a polite expression to describe the interview a group of ‘ele-friends’  (Rumana, Mahera, Sajjad and Naeem) had […]
March 26, 2019

Sovereignty  vs. underground cables

In a small village in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan, the residents chose to live without electricity  for many years because installing an electricity grid with overhead wires […]
March 26, 2019

Last bird in the sky

A society must cater to the needs and protection of those  who stand at the end of the queue  – the weakest, the poorest and the […]
March 26, 2019

The Houbara Vehicles

Every winter Pakistan plays host to two exceptionally diverse species of visitors. The first to arrive are the Houbara bustards, taxonomically classified as ‘chlamydotis undulata’. Conspicuous […]
March 26, 2019

Elephants – from zoos to sanctuaries

  Having been chained for 20 years, ‘Saheli’ the female elephant of Islamabad zoo could no longer bear the ordeal of life in confinement, standing in […]