Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has announced that it will collect sales tax on rental income of all the telecom companies received from internet service providers for providing space on their cell sites (towers) for installation of boosters or similar equipment for providing broadband internet services. PRA while responding to a question raised by certain quarters […]
Miss Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy of Pakistan won the prestigious Oscar for her praiseworthy documentary Saving Face, and pushed Pakistanis to not keep quiet over the injustice that is prevalent in their society. Crimes, particularly against females, are on the rise. Women are beaten by their inhumane husbands or are shot dead by one of their […]
After a four-decade-long struggle for women’s rights, Dr Fouzia Saeed received her due recognition on Friday when she was awarded the “Battle of Crete Award” by the Washington Oxi Day Foundation for her commendable work in the field. The first recipient of the annual Oxi Day Battle of Crete Award, which honours a woman for […]
By: Aijaz gul Noted film columnist Aijaz Gul has a word on old habits that die hard: “Films began as a small scale industry and a work of magic in France, the United States of American, the UK, Germany and Russia, where it was difficult to convert theatre addicts into movie junkies. France even tried […]
By: Arshad mehmood Arshad Mehmood is critical of the apathy of state organisations as well as the general public towards archiving our local and regional music. Personally, he is happy to have kept his penchant for classical music alive by transferring it over time from LPs and cassettes to CDs and DVDs. Mahmood believes there […]
By: Aoun Sahi Journalists are walking a tightrope after the attack on Malala, Enraged by the extensive coverage of its attempt to kill Malala Yousafzai, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has started threatening local as well as international media organisations across the country. According to an Interior Ministry official, the TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud has issued ‘special […]
By: Sidrah Roghay Karachi: The Bambino cinema has started its renovation and smells of fresh paint, while the wood panels on the wall glint and the canteen is well stocked. Yet, its owner has left one room untouched. It is filled with debris; the walls are soot-laden and the furniture is burnt to ashes. “If […]
Karachi: The Karachi police would be equipped with mobile phone locators as soon as possible and issue arms licences to the business community as Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad ordered the inspector General (IG) of Sindh Police and the city police chief to procure the necessary equipment and documents. In other measures to control the worsening […]
Karachi: At least 592 people with no political affiliations fell prey to target killings in the city in the past nine months stated a report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan here on Friday. Although the report does not mention the ethnicity of the victims, clubbing the figures under the category ‘Targeted killing […]
By: Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International (AI) while expressing concern over the continuing violation of human rights in Indian-held Kashmir says that improvements in this area might lead to a peaceful settlement. Dr Michael Gottlob of Amnesty International, while expressing his concerns over the continuing violation of human rights in Indian held Kashmir and New […]
By: Hanif Khalid ISLAMABAD: Government has decided to stem the huge losses incurred by illegal international calls coming to Pakistan by making it sure that no call from abroad is made to Pakistan without payment. This was stated by Chairman PTA Farooq Awan while talking to ‘The News’ here on Friday. Previously foreign operators had […]
By: Shada Islam WHEN you read the World Economic Forum’s seventh annual Global Gender Gap Report it’s clear that European women are slowly but surely taking their rightful place in politics, business and as regards access to jobs and education. The rest of the world can certainly learn from Europe on ways of getting rid […]
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urged for placing forests under local control to increase incomes and sustainability. In its report ‘Investing in locally controlled forestry’, IUCN observed that to increase the incomes of many of the billion forest-dependent people world-wide the current model for investment in forests must be turned on its head. […]
QUETTA: A Khuzdar journalist’s son who was injured in a shooting incident on Thursday, died in a local hospital on Friday. Two men on a motorbike had opened fire on a car in Khuzdar on Thursday, killing Siraj Ahmed and injuring Manzoor Ahmed, both sons of Nadeem Gurganari, president of the Khuzdar Press Club. On […]
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