By Farooq Baloch KARACHI: The Turkish hacker – who recently defaced Google Pakistan’s webpage along with 284 other .pk domains – has claimed to have access to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) servers, potentially acquiring personal data of millions of Pakistanis. According to a TechCrunch (TC) report […]
KARACHI: Changes in weather conditions over the past two decades have aggravated the miseries of coastal communities living below the poverty line. Besides, the existing nexus between political and economic elites who tend to take undue privileges by controlling resources make matters even worse, says a report published by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan […]
By: Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: “It’s naked contempt of the parliament. The Supreme Court registrar has breached the privilege of the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly. We have patiently waited for four-and-a-half years and now it’s time to act,” a visibly perturbed Chairman of the PAC, Nadeem Afzal Gondal, said in reaction to the […]
By: Abbas Nasir WHERE the chief election commissioner’s appointment fuelled optimism about the conduct of the next election, the discourse in the electronic media leaves a lot to be desired. First, the consensus which put Justice Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim in office and now the quality of interaction between his office and the political parties as […]
By: A.G Noorani “A RESPONSIBLE press is an undoubtedly desirable goal; but press responsibility is not mandated by the constitution, and like many other virtues, it cannot be legislated,” Chief Justice Warren Burger of the US Supreme Court ruled on behalf of a unanimous court in June 1974. In the nearly four decades that have […]
By: K. UMER FAROOQ A RECENT conference in Qatar about global warming and climate change has reported that it has become a big challenge for big powers which are mostly responsible for the climate disaster to clear the mess. According to the media, leaders from more than 200 countries gathered in Doha, Qatar, to continue […]
By: BASHIR MEMON MASS communication and journalism graduates have protested through the media against the injustice being meted out to them by the Sindh information ministry while allowing all graduates in the social sciences to apply for the advertised posts of information officers. The role and responsibilities of the information officer indicate that mass communication […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will soon table a bill in the provincial assembly to fix the minimum age for marriage at 18 years, said provincial social welfare and women empowerment minister Sitara Ayaz on Friday. The statement came after speakers at a consultation voiced concern about the growing number of child marriages in the […]
By: Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: A statue of Fasting Buddha smuggled out of Pakistan has gone under the hammer at Christie’s, smashing the hopes of the Department of Archaeology and Museums (DOAM) to reclaim the priceless artifact from the 3rd/4th century. All because of bureaucratic wranglings at home and abroad. Alerted by Pakistani representative to Unesco […]
By: Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: In an apparent attempt to avert a possible backlash, the Election Commission has invited over a dozen political parties for consultations on how to go about delimitation of constituencies in Karachi. Some Karachi-based parties are among the invitees to the consultative session scheduled for Dec 20. According to the ECP, […]
By: Iftikhar A. Khan and Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: Both media and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took turns to take flak in both houses of parliament for the second successive day on Friday over a perceived smearing of politicians. In the National Assembly, where the government sought opposition’s cooperation on Thursday to investigate a NAB […]
By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: In another setback for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), following an ‘adverse’ verdict on delimitation of constituencies in Karachi, the Supreme Court on Friday asked MQM chief Altaf Hussain to appear before it in person and explain why he should not be charged for contempt over “his contemptuous assertions against the judiciary”. […]
By: Obaid Abrar Khan ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) has written a letter to the Chief Secretary Balochistan asking him to extend full support to the three-member fact-finding committee to assess the scale of violence against working journalists in the province. PCP Chairman Raja Shafqat Abbasi in his letter wrote that article 19 of […]
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