BY: TAHIR AMIN No international as well as national companies and consortia have shown any interest in response to an advertisement of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) seeking hiring of consultant to auction 3G spectrums, although only eight days are left in the deadline for submission of proposals. However, PTA is expecting a good response […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has been moved for the disqualification of the Sindh information minister, Sharjeel Inam Memon, over his statements against Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. A human rights lawyer, Rana Faizul Hasan, filed the petition on Tuesday, accusing the minister for contempt of court. During the Sindh Assembly session on August 7, […]
By: Tazeen Javed The Arab Spring has forever changed the way people will view social media in the context of political change and citizens’ active participation in bringing about that change. But politics is not the only arena where social media has made its presence felt. It can and has been used by a lot […]
By: JAHANZAIB HAQUE Pemra wants to hold a discussion with all stakeholders in order to set parameters for this purpose. Media the world over has always been perceived by both its practitioners and its consumers as a mission with public service seen as its main preoccupation. However, over time, market has seemingly overwhelmed the mission. […]
By: Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: The mystery of Rs 47 billion tax evasion on inter-connect charges that whether it was due or not, has been resolved here on Tuesday when former Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) chairman Mumtaz Haider Rizvi admitted that this tax was due against mobile phone companies since 2005 and FBR failed to […]
By: Aliya Mirza LAHORE: As many as 2,000 women and girls from various minority sects were forcibly converted to Islam through rape, torture and kidnappings, while 161 people were charged with blasphemy in 2011, according to a report by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC). SPARC released the report […]
LAHORE: The (JAC) has condemned, in the strongest terms, the severe torture by police of a human rights activist and his musician son. Sungi Development Foundation Executive Director Asad Rehman and his son Mahmood Rehman were badly beaten near their house and then taken to a police station. They were beaten, abused and faced inhuman […]
MANSEHRA: The lawyers in Mansehra have been allegedly intimidated not to pursue the case of a gang-rape victim. District Bar Association of Mansehra President Shahjahan Khan Swati lodged a written complaint at the City Police Station on Tuesday wherein he stated that he was present at the barroom when he received a missed call at […]
TAKHT BHAI: A minor girl who had gone missing a day earlier was found dead in Jarai area in Lundkhwar Police Station on Tuesday, police sources said. The sources said the eight-year old Shabnam, grade-2 student at the Government Girls Primary School in Hafizabad in Jarai, was on her way home from the school when […]
By: Anil Datta It is an exhibition that is a pleasant departure from the current trends in avant-garde schools of art, steeped in brain teasing abstractionism. All the 25 paintings adorning the walls of Chawkandi Art are representative of the realistic impressionism school of art. The paintings are a vivid representation of the various facets […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI, Sept 4: Members of the US-based band Cultures in Harmony and faculty and students of the National Academy of Performing Arts’ music department played delightful compositions, both notated and improvised, at a concert organised by the academy’s Society for Music and Repertory Theatre at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs auditorium […]
RT Rev Dr Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith on Saturday lent his voice to media rights campaigners. Speaking at [an] … award ceremony, he said the killings and disappearances of journalists must be probed and the perpetrators brought to justice…. On the Committee to Protect Journalists Impunity Index 2012, Sri Lanka is ranked fourth –– below Iraq, […]
THE extent to which extremist groups have managed to proliferate in Pakistan and the impunity with which they operate pose challenges on many fronts. Consider the bind in which Pakistani journalists, especially those working in the conflict-hit areas of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, find themselves. They must do their duty by those who seek information […]
By: K. AHSAN AWAIS FINALLY, the arrest of Khalid Jadoon, who has been accused of committing the filthy act of triggering violence and hatred against an innocent religious minority, has brought a sudden twist to the situation. While it is shocking to learn that the culprit, who happened to be a so-called imam, deliberately tampered […]
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