Shoaib Raja ISLAMABAD: The marauding government was shown the way to the pavilion by the Supreme Court which ordered the immediate issuance of a licence to the country’s first and only sports channel, Geo Super, a right that had persistently been denied by the belligerent executive. The Supreme Court on Monday not only directed Pemra […]
Rahat Munir RAWALPINDI: Civil society, lawyers and traders of the city welcomed the judgement of Supreme Court on Monday to issue a licence to Geo Super. They said that in the long last victory has gone to the right side. “Supreme Court has passed the verdict which was the voice of the people of Pakistan. […]
Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: The unambiguous and highly pleasing judgment of Supreme Court to issue licence to Geo Super, the only and the most popular sports channel in the country, has given the lie to all the claims of the government and Pemra. Simultaneously there is a question of paramount importance emerging in the minds of […]
Karachi: The bullet-riddled bodies of a young man and woman were found from Gulshan-e-Maymar early on Monday morning with a note saying ‘Dosti ka Anjaam’, meaning the consequence of love. The bodies are yet to be identified, but the police said the man and woman were in their early thirties. The bodies were found in […]
LAHORE: A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her father for `honour` in Jhuggian Nagra locality of Nawankot on Monday. Nawankot police said Khalid attacked his daughter, Nabeela, 20, with repeated strikes of a knife. The woman was pronounced dead at hospital. The accused fled the scene. Nabeela, who was married off to Shan […]
Babar Ayaz Why are all the fingers, whether belonging to foreign governments or Pakistani political and human rights activists, only directed at our premier intelligence agency? Why is it increasingly becoming the usual suspect? First we were sliding down as a country, but now, for the last few years, it seems as if we are […]
Perwez Abdullah Karachi: The cice-chancellor of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology (FUUAST), Dr Muhammad Qaiser, has voiced concern over the increasing level of environmental pollution in the country and the resulting destruction of the ecological balance and urged the print and electronic media to initiate an awareness campaign for the public […]
Karachi: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) is all set to start the second phase of distribution of Watan Cards after issuing over 1.6 million cards in the first phase, said Deputy Chairman Nadra Tariq Malik. “The National Disaster Management Authority has estimated around 1.68 million families being affected by floods, and we have […]
Rasheed Khalid ISLAMABAD: Calling the killing of Saleem Shahzad a serious issue as being the 74th in line, Pervaiz Shaukat, the President of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), has asked the government, the chief of the Army staff and the ISI DG to take up this growing concern at the highest level and […]
NEW YORK: The influential international media watchdog, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has expressed concerns over the deteriorating situation for journalists in Pakistan who, it said, “Are easy prey for many of the violent actors in their country.” The actors, it notes, range from “militant and extremist groups, criminals and thugs, and, […]
Islamabad, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that the journalists are the eyes and ears of the society, as they play pivotal role in bridging the communication gap between the ruler and the ruled. He said that the media is playing an effective role in highlighting the public problems […]
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