Ammar Shahbazi Karachi: Shoiab Mansoor’s much-anticipated movie Bol starring pop-icon Atif Aslam finally hit the big screens across the city on Friday. Despite unfavourable security situation of the city, fun-starved Karachiites couldn’t wait to flock to cinema houses in droves to be a part of what critics called the most important entertainment event of the […]
Farhat Taj All kinds of colonial stereotypes were invoked to deceive the world into believing that al Qaeda militants, ‘state guests’ in the words of many tribal leaders, have been hosted by the tribes against the will of the Pakistani state. Saleem Shahzad, an investigative Pakistani journalist working for Asia Times Online, was brutally murdered […]
Sir: Syed Zafar Ali Shah, an MNA hailing from Sindh, has stated that the media raised a tantrum about the brutality of the Rangers in Sindh but, regrettably, did not budge against the killing of three people in interior Sindh. According to the press reports dating back to April 21, 2011, Serai Qurban Khuhawar, Rooplo […]
LAHORE: Government College University (GCU) Young Journalists Society (YJS), on Thursday, hosted an interactive session with eminent editors, columnists and journalists, titled “Evening to Remember”, on the issue “Challenges confronting fourth pillar of state”. Daily Times Editor Rashed Rahman, Daily Pakistan Editor Mujeebur Rahman Shami and renowned anchorperson and columnist Aftab Iqbal were the chief […]
HYDERABAD: The death of Sindhi writers, Mansur Malik, Hassan Dars and Tariq Alam Abro, in the same month has left an irreplaceable gap. To celebrate their contributions, the Sindhi Language Authority (SLA) organised a conference on Thursday. “Dars was a poet envied by all Sindhi writers,” said SLA chairperson Dr Fehmida Hussain. “The terrible loss […]
SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan launched a bus transport service between Bajwat and Sialkot for females on Friday. Awan said that the bus service was launched to help women in the area travel to and from work, as well as schools and colleges. “The service has been greatly appreciated […]
Sir: Our people still believe in the conventional perception of men being superior to women. A man is considered strong, wise and the sole bread-earner of the family, while a woman is seen as a naïve and docile creature, with the sole purpose of obeying her man. Such a false ideology is not only propagated […]
Sir: Our people still believe in the conventional perception of men being superior to women. A man is considered strong, wise and the sole bread-earner of the family, while a woman is seen as a naïve and docile creature, with the sole purpose of obeying her man. Such a false ideology is not only propagated […]
TEHRAN: Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan agreed on Friday to expand and strengthen trilateral cooperation for peace, stability and development in the region. This was agreed during a meeting between Presidents Asif Ali Zardari, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamid Karzai. The three leaders agreed that terrorism was a big hurdle to regional development, which must be tackled […]
By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: With the approval of 59 demands for grants, the Sindh Assembly passed on Friday the Rs475.5 billion provincial budget for the financial year 2011-12. All 627 cut motions moved by the small opposition in the Sindh Assembly against 22 demands for grants were rejected by a majority vote. Chief Minister […]
ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Services Public Relations on Friday reacted sharply to a New York Times report suggesting that a militant group with ties to ISI could have functioned as Osama bin Laden’s support network in Pakistan, saying Pakistani military’s counter-terrorism efforts spoke louder than the NYT’s words. “Pakistan and its security agencies have suffered the most […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) begins joint development of information and communication tech-nology infrastructure in Military Lands and Cantonment (MLC) offices across the country. PTCL and ML and C department has taken this joint initiative to automate the business processes by introducing Information Technology and computerisation at all levels of hierarchy. PTCL will be […]
ISLAMABAD: PK Registry PKNIC, in collaboration with online Urdu literature website U4U.COM organised a conference on “Local Language Content Stimulus” at Lahore. Chairman Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) Dr Mohammed Yaseen was the chief guest of the event while Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) was co-sponsor of this event. PTA chief, Dr Mohammed Yaseen said that […]
LAHORE: President of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Shahzad Ali Malik has urged the government to utilise maximum resources for the promotion of information technology (IT) in the country enabling it to join the club of technologically advanced nations. Distributing certificates among successful candidates of web development skill course conducted by the LCCI […]
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