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Daily Archives: December 2, 2012

Students suffer the ban on YouTube

By: Tabish Gul Since the educational standards in Pakistani institutes are not at all equal, the students saw YouTube as no less than a blessing. The website served as a platform where the students from colleges and universities all over the country could find lectures on their respective field of study by some of the […]


Female newscasters and the dupatta

By: SOHAIL ASIM There are reports of the government calling for newscasters on television to don the dupatta during broadcasts. Are they serious? Is the PPP actually considering this bewildering notion? How on earth can they call themselves liberal when they deliberate on such petty issues? The days of forcing women into submission belong to […]


Ban the nights!

By: Adiah Afraz All good things have sequels. Or so I have been told by the makers of Die Hard. So if all good things have sequels, then I think my Naik Parveen column deserves a sequel too. Now, to mellow the effects of my pompousness, this great column might not have been great at […]


Painting a better picture

By: Farzana Baduel Pakistan can trace its cultural history back throughout the millennia – from the Indus Civilisation of 8000BC through the Gandhara, Sikh and British periods right up to our Independence and beyond. We are a country blessed with breath-taking natural beauty, a rich, vibrant culture and a warm, welcoming people. Unfortunately, ask somebody […]


The self in art

By: Quddus Mirza French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his book Writing and Difference writes about the nature of language and how one can decipher the real meaning of word, not by understanding that particular word, but by discarding all other options closer to it. For instance, how do you distinguish between a woman and a […]


A living cinema

By: Sarwat Ali The books published on cinema in India have been on the increase. In the beginning, the printed material revolved around scandals and most of the stuff was purely sensational but, with the passage of time, as the profile of the industry has become bigger, the writings too are more varied and diverse. […]


Hobson’s choice for Pakistani media

By: Adnan Rehmat Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. Over 90 journalists in Pakistan have found this out to their mortal peril over the past 12 years. Dozens of others face this serious risk on a daily basis as they go about their professional work. The case of Hamid Mir is more serious than […]


Press Council of Pakistan employees are appointed by committee: Shafqat Abbasi

By: Faisal Kamal Pasha ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) Chairman Raja Muhammad Shafqat Abbasi has said that an appointment committee, comprising members from the APNS, CPNE, PFUJ and Pakistan Bar Council chairman, make appointments in the Council. “We publish the advertisement for appointments after seeking consent from all these members and as far as […]


How rape victims can get justice

By: Sidrah Roghay Karachi: Rape leaves the victim traumatised for a long time. Some victims are so shocked that they cannot think straight what course of action they should take to get the culprit punished. So what should a woman do if she is raped? Such victims should preserve their clothes, not take a bath […]


United Nation Human Rights Day will be dedicated to Malala

By: Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Human Rights Day on December 10 ceremony will be dedicated to Malala Yousafzai at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (Unesco) headquarters in Paris. The organisation has decided to hold mega events on the occasion that will be attended by several world leaders including Pakistan’s President, […]


Prime Minister orders review of PEMRA regulations after report by The News

By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: Taking serious notice of The News report, Prime Minister Pervaiz Asharf has decided to review the flawed Pemra Content Regulation 2012, which are secular in nature and do not even mention Islam, Islamic values, the ideology and defence of Pakistan. His spokesman Shafqat Jalil told this correspondent that a high level […]


Altaf asks Ulema to condemn attack on Malala

Karachi: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain has called upon the muftis and leading religious scholars of Pakistan to condemn the cowardly Taliban attack on the daughter of the nation, Malala Yousufzai. Addressing the muftis, including the grand mufti of Pakistan and religious scholars, Hussain said that he would be left with no other […]


The scope of mass communications

By: Gulshad Ahmed Shaikh Previously, the field of Mass Communications was often misunderstood by the candidates applying for admissions in a university. Mass Communications has been a subject of social sciences (in past Arts), but most of the candidates at the time of filling the options in the admission form thought of it as a […]


Prime Minister on Kalabagh dam verdict: Judicial order not enough to launch project

ISLAMABAD: A judicial or executive order was not enough to launch a controversial project like the Kalabagh dam, the prime minister said on Saturday. “Projects of national import are executed only after thrashing out a consensus of all stakeholders,” Raja Pervez Ashraf said in reply to a question about the Lahore High Court’s verdict ordering […]