By: HASHIM ABRO It is a devastating reality that millions of female children in Pakistan never go to school. While visiting various villages in my home district, I concluded that nothing has been done to pull down the barriers that keep girls from attending school and begin to bring a change for women in rural […]
Pakistan’s social media scene has become vibrant enough to influence the conventional media in various ways. Every other Pakistani internet user is a social media user. Latest figures from Socialbakers, a leading social media and digital analytics firm, place the number of Pakistani Facebook users at 7.8 million. Independent estimates suggest roughly three million Pakistanis […]
The participants of three-day Pak-Afghan Journalists Forum has decided the formation of a forum comprising representatives of journalists from both countries and a four-member committee has also been constituted in this regard to prepare targets and procedure for the organisation. In a joint communiqué issued on the completion of the conference held under auspices of […]
By: JALIL HASSAN AKHTAR A Punjab Assembly lawmaker, Ali Haider Noor Khan Niazi, on Thursday was denied the opportunity to move a resolution on Kalabagh dam during the 43rd session of Punjab Assembly after which he staged a walk out, applauding the Lahore High Court’s ruling in this regard. In his resolution, the legislator said […]
By Muhammad Yasir KARACHI: The SIMs sales of all five cellular phone operators have reduced significantly to 3-5 percent compared with average routine sales due to its suspension on nearly 0.1 million outlets throughout the country as per directives of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The background interviews of cellular phone companies suggested SIMs sales decreased […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate chairman Syed Nayyar Hussain Bokhari, in his capacity as acting President of Pakistan, has confirmed ratification of Pakistan’s Agreement of Cooperation in the field of media with Sri Lanka, according to a press release. The agreement was signed between the two governments on February 11, 2012 during t he visit of the President […]
By: JAHANZAIB HAQUE Several recent actions — or a lack thereof — in Pakistan and globally have sparked outrage at various media outlets. First, at home, as viewers watched a bank building in Karachi burn live on television, they also witnessed an apparently inactive cameraman as he captured a young man falling to his death […]
By: Shahbaz Rana ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday declared the appointments of two deputy chairmen of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) illegal and directed the government to either remove them from their posts immediately or justify its stance. The committee acted in response to a decision of the NADRA Authority […]
By: Muhammad Asif The Pakistan Forest Institute Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently launched a report which mentions, among other things, a significant increase of 0.3 percent in forest cover across Pakistan and of 3.3 percent in KP. In a country where years of destruction of forests, at the hands of different mafias, and usage of forest wood […]
By: Mukhtar Ahmed This is with reference to your lead news story ‘Two bold directors defy PM’ (Dec 11). The high-profile future auction of 3G spectrum, expected to fetch between $1-2 billion, has become a serious controversy, after some members of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority questioned the validity and legality of the consultants hired by […]
By: Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: The Prevention and Awareness regime of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), while taking suo moto notice of 3G PTA scam, has summoned the top officials of the Ministry of Information Technology, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and all the relevant stakeholders for a briefing on the issue. The NAB has taken notice of […]
By: Amir Mir LAHORE: An Anti-Terrorism Court of Karachi has failed to meet the 45-day deadline fixed by the Sindh High Court to wrap up the proceedings in Wali Khan Babar murder case and take the killers to task. Wali Khan Babar, 29, was gunned down on January 13, 2012, hardly a few hours after […]
Karachi: A six-year-old Hindu girl who was allegedly raped in an area of the Umerkot district 10 days ago was brought to Karachi on Wednesday, and is being treated at the Lyari General Hospital. A student of Class 1, the girl was playing near her house in the Ghulam Nabi Shah area on December 3, […]
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Thursday termed the appointment of PTA Chairman Farooq Awan illegal and directed the officials of the cabinet division to give complete details in this regard and appointment criteria of PTA chairman. During the meeting of the sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication that met with Senator […]
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