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Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive Islamabad, May 28 (IANS) A Pakistani Member of the National Assembly (MNA) has submitted a bill and called on the House seeking to ensure that the countrys religious minorities are referred to and identified as non-Muslims.
4 Minority and women-owned company-focused investment house Altura Capital is eyeing up to $250m for a new fundraise. The firm also targets investments in businesses that supply value-added goods and services to corporate America and governments. Altura is the co-founder of Small Business Community Capital (SBCC), an SBIC Impact fund with $147m under management. That fund provides debt and equity capital to small and mid-sized companies with $1m-plus EBITDA, focusing on women and minority owned firms and entrepreneurs located in LMI communities. Altura’s latest raise, called Fund III, is yet to register any capital according to a filing submitted to the US securities regulator. ....
National May 20, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi Commissioner Gulzar Shah’s fact-finding report into the aborted Rawalpindi Ring Road (R3) project, which the government has adopted and is acting upon, does not contain a word in defence from at least three dozen officials, private parties and housing societies that have been named and accused of serious misdemeanours. A reading of the 33-page report shows that at no point did the commissioner summon the “delinquents” to confront them with his findings, observations and conclusions before implicating them in the mega scandal. If he ever gave them a hearing, it is not reflected in his report. The report uses strong words against those it found responsible for the scam. Among others, it uses terms such as “unethical silence” and “rent seeking syndicate” to describe them and their actions. ....
Workshop highlights problems of minority communities National May 19, 2021 PESHAWAR: The Local Council Association (LCA) arranged a training workshop with the support of commonwealth Local Government for the protection of the basic rights of the minorities. Former local bodies’ representatives and minority members from across the province participated in the workshop. Speakers highlighted the problems being faced by the minority communities. They asked the government to take steps for providing protection to minority communities in Pakistan. The speakers said the government had allocated a five percent quota in every government department for the minorities. However, they said that the minority members were not being hired on the basis of that allocated quota. ....