Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Pakistan as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Pakistan: Literacy rate
The level of illiteracy amongst women in Pakistan amounts to roughly half of the population …
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Pakistan: New system ready to facilitate overseas Pakistanis on succession issues
Employees who are working abroad may now undertake a number of transactions that previously required them to return to the country …
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Pakistan: Safe environment at workplaces sought for women
A group seeking improved working conditions for women has launched a campaign to persuade the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to enforce the improvement of workplace facilities for women and protect them from discrimination and sexual harassment …
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Pakistan: Senate passes bill allowing paid maternity, paternity leaves
Employers are still struggling to interpret whether they are subject to the maternity and paternity law passed by the Senate back on 27th January 2020 …
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Pakistan: E-business invitation letter
Foreign business visitors may now obtain their Business Visa Invitation Letter (a required document for a visa application) through the “E-Business Invitation Letter” website …
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Pakistan: NTUF demands immediate end of growing exploitation of workers
A great many of the 600,000 workers on the Sindh Industrial Trade Estate in Karachi are now on strike …
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Pakistan: Sindh labour department signs MoU for home-based workers’ registration
A memorandum of understanding has recently been signed between the Home Based Women Workers Federation and the Labour and Human Resource Department of the Sindh government …
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Pakistan: Nod for paternity leave — but only in Islamabad
Back in January this year, we reported that the Senate was considering a Bill allowing 1-month paternity leave to fathers on the birth of their first three children …
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Pakistan: #MeToo movement
Women who allege sexual harassment can sometimes find that those accused simply retaliate with a defamation lawsuit …
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Pakistan: Bonded and child labour
The Sindh Commission on the Status of Women, Civil Society and Labour Rights has issued a report calling for Hari Courts and District Vigilance Committees to be established in order to allow the practice of bonded and child labour to be challenged …
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Pakistan: Extension of visas until June 30th, 2020
Foreign nationals currently stranded in Pakistan, with a Pakistani visa that expired after the 15th of March 2020 will now be treated as having a valid visa up until the 30th of June 2020 …
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Pakistan: Whistleblower Protection and Vigilance Commission Bill
The Whistleblower Protection and Vigilance Commission Bill remains stalled in Parliament, although an interim ordinance has been in force and its tenure renewed recently against much opposition from the PPP and other opposition parties …
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Pakistan: Senate passes maternity, paternity leave bill
A new Bill has just been passed by the Islamabad Parliament regarding maternity and paternity leave in both public and private establishments across the federal capital territory …
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Pakistan :: Maternity and paternity leave
The maternity and paternity law 2020 applies to private and public sector employers “under administrative control of the federal government” …
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Pakistan: Amended NAB law to exclude private citizens from accountability watchdog’s reach
The law establishing powers for the “National Accountability Bureau (NAB)” is being revised to prevent it investigating private individuals, unless they are connected with public officials, or a public office holder under suspicion …
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