Art beautifies the society and in order to keep it lively fine arts should be valued. Lieutenant General Muhammad Ahsan Mahmood, HI(M), Chairman POF Board, said this while addressing the inauguration ceremony of a paintings exhibition titled “Pakistan – Past and Present” by an eminent painter of the country Aftab Zafar organised under the auspices […]
GENEVA: Last year was one of the deadliest on record for journalists, with 141 killed in 29 different countries and Syria the most dangerous place on earth for reporters, a media watchdog said Thursday. The Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), which fights for the protection of journalists, said the figure was up by 31 per […]
ISLAMABAD: Social media users in Pakistan are the haves as they are in the US and the UK. Just as in these other countries, Facebook is the most popular social networking site, followed by Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and Pinterest. Thus, when it comes to social media, Pakistani internet users are treading the same path […]
By Kashif Zafar BAHAWALPUR: A nine-year-old girl was taken to hospital after she was raped by three men on Wednesday. Doctors treating her said that she was in a critical condition. The medico-legal report confirmed rape. Airport police have registered a case against seven people for kidnap and rape, five of them have been named […]
By Sameen I would like to draw your attention to the morning show craze that has been adopted by our television channels. Once there was a time when talents like Tauseef Haider and Mustansar Hussain Tarar would host some really informative and decent shows with great guest appearances for these morning shows but now, whenever […]
By Danish The authorities have made a regular habit of shutting down all cellular phone services whenever a major event or holiday comes up in the country. It is mighty inconvenient to have to bear this so often. We are completely cut off from loved ones and friends, we cannot make plans on how to […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting Thursday recommended the government to ban airing all foreign contents in any language during the prime time and take strict action against the violators. The committee meeting, held with Beelum Hasnain in the chair, was attended by its members, Secretary Information Rasheed Ahmed, Pemra Chairman […]
LAHORE: The Motorway has been closed from Lahore to Balaksar interchange and Pindi Bhattian to Faisalabad interchange due to poor visibility as thick fog continued to cover parts of Punjab, Geo News reported. The Motorway Police said that the highway had been closed as visibility level dropped to zero. They said that the vehicular traffic […]
LONDON: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief, Altaf Hussain, has said some anchorpersons had given some derogatory remarks about some senior and respectable persons during their talk shows. He asked them that they might criticise people as it was their right being journalists, but they had no right to ridicule them. In a statement on Thursday, […]
Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: Journalist fraternity stormed out of the Press Gallery of the Senate on Thursday evening against the alleged threatening remarks passed by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) self-exiled leader Altaf Hussain in his speech from London the other day to a rally in Karachi to welcome Dr Tahirul Qadri. After assurance from Senators Mushahid […]
LAHORE: The South Asian Free Media Association (Safma) is holding its eighth regional conference in Amritsar, India, and Lahore from Jan 5 to 9. Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif and Indian Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal are scheduled to speak at different sessions of the conference. The conference’s theme this […]
KARACHI: Malala Yousufzai, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been chosen as the Herald’s Person of the Year for 2012 for “championing the cause of girls’ education which brought her under direct fire from the Taliban”. The Person of the Year project, part of the Herald’s special annual issue which hits the newsstands across […]
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