This may be sarcasm and perhaps, that is what it is meant to be, but I think the media has been unfair to this government and its elements given various tasks to handle. Can any journalist in Pakistan realise the pressure of canceling an LPG quota, a daughter and a wife’s job, huge legal assignment […]
Tahir Khan ISLAMABAD: The Afghan intelligence agency has accused Pakistani nationals working for Afghanistan’s leading TV channel of spying and influencing the country’s broadcast policy. The spokesperson for Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), Lutfullah Mashal, alleged that Pakistanis working in the Afghan media industry were using their professions as a cover-up for spying. However, […]
Syed Talat Hussain A new trend threatens journalists’ judicious editorial judgment and credibility. This is the trend of increasing demands from a long list of groups that want media space by hook or by crook. True, the afflicted souls in Pakistan have always turned towards the media to express their grievances and to seek justice. […]
LAHORE – The 5th annual Pakistan Telecommunications Conference 2012, organized by SHAMROCK Conferences International and endorsed by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, will be held on April 19, 2012 in Karachi. Saleem H Madviwalla, Minister of State and Chairman Board of Investment, will be the chief guest and Chairman PTA Dr Mohammad Yaseen will be deliver […]
Ghulam Hussain LAHORE: Pakistan film industry’s top composer maestro Amjad Bobby’s seventh death anniversary is being observed today (Sunday). Amjad Bobby died of cardiac arrest on April 15, 2005. He has composed music for a number of blockbuster films, like ‘Ik Nagina’, ‘Bobby’, ‘Rubby’, ‘Kabhi Alwida Na Kehna’, ‘Lazawaal’, ‘Sangam’, ‘Ghunghat’, Reema’s ‘Koi Tujh Sa […]
ISLAMABAD: In order to expand media outreach throughout Pakistan, the army is planning to set-up a countrywide radio network parallel to Radio Pakistan and PTV to create what it calls ‘social harmonisation’ and to propagate ‘state vision’ in a ‘vibrant manner.’ After the successful execution of FM radio projects in militancy-hit areas of Swat, Federally […]
GHALLANAI: The militants bombed two girls’ schools in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency, official and tribal sources said on Saturday. The sources said explosives planted in the buildings of the two government girls’ primary schools in Abdullah Kor and Haji Guldar Kor in the Qandaharo area were triggered to cause the explosions on Friday night. […]
Mohammed Iqbal Khan Asadi painfully recreates Radio Pakistan Karachi’s glorious past Sarwat Ali Radio Pakistan Karachi Ki Pachas Sala Ilmi Aur Adabi Khidmaat By Dr.Mohammed Iqbal Khan Asadi One of the most momentous inventions to have impacted society in the 20th century was the radio. Its introduction was made controversial by the predictable response of […]
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Saturday said doing politics and running the government was not an easy job in the presence of 100 TV channels. Talking to a delegation of PPP lawmakers and office-bearers at Dera Ghazi Khan airport, he said politics was not the job of light-hearted people in the current situation. He […]
PESHAWAR: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has finally issued the Pakistan Origin Card to a Russian woman on the directives of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), a source said on Saturday. Kristina Petrochenkova, 30, confirmed that she has been issued the card as her previous document expired on April 13 and she needed […]
MULTAN: President Asif Zardari on Saturday said the people of south Punjab would be given their rights and their demand for their own Seraiki province would be fulfilled during the tenure of the incumbent government. He was talking to a delegation of the People’s Lawyers Forum (PLF) here at the Prime Minister’s House. The president […]
LAHORE: All Pakistan Newspapers Society President Sarmad Ali and Secretary General Masood Hamid, on behalf of the office-bearers and members of the society, have expressed their profound grief over the demise of the wife of Siddiq Baloch, chief editor of Daily Balochistan Express, Quetta, and Daily Azadi, Quetta. They prayed to Allah Almighty to rest […]
KARACHI, April 14: In Ovid’s masterpiece ‘Metamorphoses’ a sculptor, Pygmalion, falls in love with his own statue. As fate would have it, Aphrodite brings the sculpture to life but its creator, Pygmalion, overlooks the fact that the statue can now think on her own, has feelings, has her own body and an independent mind. Such […]
THIS is apropos of Hajrah Mumtaz’s article ‘A giant in decline’ (April 9) , which was about services of Radio Pakistan rendered in the past. The topic got new impetus with your editorial ‘PBC in dire straits’ (Feb 26). It seems the winds have started blowing in favour of Radio Pakistan. Radio throughout the world […]
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