ISLAMABAD: The process to auction third-generation (3G) mobile telecom licenses is expected to be completed by December this year with expected contribution of around Rs 300 billion to national exchequer through direct spectrum and infrastructure development. The direct spectrum auction is expected to bring around more than Rs 100 billion while infrastructure development can fetch […]
By: Dr. Irfan Zafar, The way rape victims’ plight that is being exploited in our society speaks of height of moral bankruptcy. A platoon of media personnel are seen photographing the victim for the sake of displaying her picture on the national media. Even in the Western world the name and identity of the victim […]
LAHORE: The City Police Division (Investigation Wing) on Friday forwarded report to the chief minster pertaining to an acid attack on a nurse by her husband at the Mayo Hospital a few days ago. SP City Multan Khan said: “The culprit would be dealt in accordance with the law and he might be hanged in […]
Tax profiles of prominent media personalities including leading television anchors have been finalised by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), revealing astonishing facts as most of them have concealed their income by not filing their wealth statements, through under-reporting and wrong-reporting of taxes, hiding their movable and immovable assets. Sources told Business Recorder here on […]
By: Hidayat Khan PESHAWAR: The thesis work recently displayed by the University of Peshawar’s (UPesh) Art and Design students reflects the turmoil which the region is undergoing — the energy crises, rampant insurgency and violence, growing rates of unemployment and suicide are all themes that have been painted in a variety of hues onto their […]
By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: The last 24 hours have given Pakistani film enthusiasts some good and some bad news. While Bodchitta Filmworks’s Seedlings made us proud by winning two awards at the New York Film Festival, Ek Tha Tiger — the most anticipated Indian film of the season — has been officially banned in Pakistan. […]
By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: Seedlings, a Pakistani film that was screened at the New York City International Film Festival (NYCIFF), left the audience spellbound by winning two major awards at the ceremony. Starring Aamina Sheikh, Mohib Mirza and Gohar Rasheed, the production of Seedlings, also known as Lamha, was completed in Karachi in June 2012 […]
By: ASIM MUNIR I want to make an appeal to the electronic media in both the public and private sectors. I am making this request after viewing a report a few days ago on almost all TV channels of Pakistan that about 100 Hindu families from Shikarpur, Sindh, were boarding a train to migrate as […]
By: Aneka Chohan For a country that has had a female head of state elected twice and claims to be an ‘Islamic Republic’ at heart, the irony is far too cruel “A woman is like a tea bag — you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water” — Eleanor […]
By: Aliya Mirza LAHORE: The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop (RPTW) is committed to continuing its informal educational project, the Pakistan Children Television (PCTV), even after the US Agency for International Development (USAID) parted its ways with it on a $20 million programme levelling serious allegations of financial misappropriation. The company has faced a media trial […]
KARACHI: Pakistan has emerged as one of the few countries in the world where 96 percent of the adult population has been registered through the most secure biometric technology, introduced by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), the authority said on Friday. NADRA spokeswoman said that the registration level in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and […]
By: Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Irfan Qadir says he has undertaken genuine efforts to find a via media to break the logjam between the judiciary and the executive over the NRO verdict implementation, specifically, reopening of graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. “The middle way that is being searched at the highest government […]
Karachi: Judicial Magistrate (South-IV) Hatim Aziz Solangi on Friday allowed physical remand of seven alleged robbers and kidnappers in the kidnapping case of Geeta Sohani and directed the Boating Basin police to produce the accused at the court on August 23. The suspects — Aslam Jan, Hasan Ali alias Ali Hassan, Ramazan, Sohail Ahmed alias […]
SWABI: The provincial archaeology and museums directorate has found remains of houses, coins and household articles of Hindu Shahi dynasty in Hund area of Swabi district during the latest excavation. Asif Raza, in charge of Hund Museum, told Dawn on Friday that excavation in Hund, one of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s major archaeological sites, began in June […]
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