LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has summoned National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) deputy director to produce the officials involved in preparation of Computerised National Identity Card (CNICs) of Afghan nationals. Last week, the FIA arrested 11 Afghans and a passport agent trying to get passports on the basis of Computerised National Identity Card […]
By: Yasser Latif Hamdani No state, modern or ancient, secular or religious, has successfully managed to exercise thought control on its citizens The big news this week in the business world is the decision by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Google antitrust investigations. Holding that Google was not harming consumers in anyway, […]
By: Murtaza Talpur Gender discrimination in education sector in addition persists in Pakistan especially amongst the poorest households because of poverty and social factors To have an adequate appreciation of the far-reaching effects of disparities between women and men, we have to recognise the basic fact that gender inequality is not one affliction, but many […]
By: Samira Shackle Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old schoolgirl shot and wounded by the Taliban, has been discharged from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, where she was receiving treatment. Doctors say she is well enough to be treated as an outpatient for the next few weeks and has relocated to the temporary home in the […]
By: Razzak Abro KARACHI: Speakers at a book launching ceremony held on Saturday evening opined that senior journalist, poet and anthropologist, Anwar Pirzado, remained a source of inspiration for youth in his life, and his work had continued the job even after his death. People from intelligentsia, journalism and civil society gathered at Arts Council […]
By: Shamsul Islam FAISALABAD: The Environmental Protection Department has issued a notice to the administration of the district headquarters (DHQ) hospital for storing medical and domestic waste in a room instead of burning it in an incinerator. The notice was issued on Saturday after an EPD team inspected the hospital on Friday and found the […]
KARACHI: A long way from Hollywood, actor Faran Tahir shared his experiences and love for the performing arts with the audience at The Second Floor (T2F) on Sunday. Famous for his role as a villain in the movie based on Marvel’s superhero, Iron Man, Tahir has worked along the glitterati of Hollywood, including Tom Hanks, […]
By: Sonia Malik LAHORE: Yesterdays, an exhibition which opened at the Nairang Art Gallery on January 5 documents the last 25 years of Pakistan’s north. It features 35 black and white photographs taken across northern Pakistan. These are a “reminder of the past” and “document changing times,” said veteran photographer and documentary maker Shahid Zaidi. […]
MULTAN / GUJRAT: Three women were shot on Sunday in two incidents. Two of them died and one was hospitalised in critical condition. In Multan, a woman and her daughter were shot allegedly by a man who had wanted to marry the girl. The woman died on the spot. The girl was taken to Nishtar […]
Ayubia National Park in Abbottabad district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is a habitat in which many beautiful wild leopards live. In recent times, these animals have begun to clash with the local human populations as their habitat is shrinking and the size of forests being reduced. These factors pose a threat to the survival of the leopards, […]
SKARDU: Taking exception to the insulting remarks of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah against local journalists, the Skardu-Baltistan Union of Journalists and Baltistan Electronic Media Reporters Association on Sunday said if the rulers couldn’t tolerate constructive criticism, they had no right to rule the people. In this regard, the two journalistic forums held […]
The South Asia Media Monitor Report, 2012 makes sad reading. In the course of the last year, 25 media personnel were killed in the eight countries of the South Asian region, with Pakistan once again leading with 13 journalists losing their lives – slightly more than one a month, to say nothing of the hundreds […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Those of us who did not have an English-only upbringing must be fully aware of the Urdu ‘digest’ culture that almost every household was part of. A few of these digests to date get published but the enthusiasm with which they would be received is no longer there. The stories that […]
By: Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan, the two students who suffered injuries when Taliban attacked and wounded seriously Malala Yousufzai in October last year, are overwhelmed by the rapid recovery of the 15-year-old education activist and have wished her a happy New Year. Kainat, 15, a student of class 10th, said that […]
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