RAWALPINDI: A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will take up for hearing Geo Super’s appeal and stay application for issuing of a broadcasting licence today (Monday). The appeal is seeking a direction to Pemra to immediately issue a broadcast licence to Geo Super. The appeal was […]
Journalists continue to focus on the wrong issues when covering the economy. DESIGN: MOHSIN ALAM By Farooq Tirmizi KARACHI: For the journalists who cried themselves hoarse that the federal government’s budget for fiscal year 2012 contained no ‘relief’ for the masses, I have a few questions: what on earth is ‘relief’, why should the government […]
Amir Mir LAHORE: Pakistan’s murky world of terrorist outfits and spy agencies leaves a long line of suspects in the barbaric murder of senior writer, author and journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad. In third world countries like Pakistan, journalists can reasonably be sure of living till the morning their by-lines appear. From there on, you don’t […]
SUKKUR: A policeman accused of subjecting a 14-year-old girl to sexual assault has confessed to the crime. Head Munshi Irfan of Ubauro police said that according to an FIR registered on the complaint of the girl’s father, police constable Khadim Hussain Mochi had assaulted her on Saturday in a sugarcane filed. He escaped while she […]
By Rauf Parekh A RAINBOW has appeared on Urdu’s literary horizon: literary magazines are making their debut and the ones launched in the recent past or long ago, too, are surviving somehow, bringing out their new issues. In this sea of literary writings, mostly unsolicited, quite a few are really remarkable and make you believe […]
Wajid Ali Syed WASHINGTON: Representatives of the Pakistani media in the US, along with Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Sans Frontiers (Reporters Without Borders) and Human Rights Watch, will hold a condolence meeting in Washington DC at the National Press Club on Monday (today) to show support for Saleem Shahzad’s family and […]
ISLAMABAD: The on-going annual artisans-at-work festival ‘Lok Mela’ being held at Shakaparian under the aegis of Lok Virsa and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting put special focus on truck art and cinema board painters. Lok Virsa organized a special exhibition of truck art and cinema board painters coinciding with the ‘Lok Mela’ festival. The exhibition […]
ISLAMABAD: The UKS Research Centre, Islamabad, in collaboration with UN Women organised a one-day consultative meeting with a selected section of the media on “Media as a Partner to Promote Gender Sensitive Reporting on Violence against Women” on Saturday, at the Best Western Hotel. The aim of the consultation was to bring together media representatives […]
* Law ministry official says president will soon send references against judges to Supreme Judicial Council By Hasnaat Malik ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to remove serving PCO judges under Article 209 of the constitution and it would file references against them in the Supreme Judicial Council very soon. A senior official in the […]
By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: While calls for disclosing details of budgetary allocations in parliament and its standing committees are getting louder, the ministry of information and broadcasting will spend nearly Rs3 billion under the head of ‘other expenditures’ without explaining the purpose for which such a huge amount has been allocated. Details of a secret […]
By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque KARACHI: The ruling Pakistan People`s Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement have decided not to bring, at least for now, hitherto untaxed services into the general sales tax net, as the provincial government is set to take over from the federal government the collection of general sales tax on services from July 1. […]
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