• January 27, 2013
• Broadcasting, Front Page, Radio, Television

By: Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Rashid Ahmad has been appointed Chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) with immediate effect. The Establishment Division has issued the notification pertaining to his appointment, and he will assume charge of his new assignment on Monday. He is a professional […]

• January 27, 2013
• Broadcasting, Television

By: Saad Hasan KARACHI: After a long delay, the premiere of Sabiha Sumar’s feature film Good Morning Karachi is finally taking place at the Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden on January 28 with hopes that it will create the much-needed stir to encourage a local distributor for a Pakistani launch. The 90-minute movie, which is […]

• January 27, 2013
• Broadcasting, Television

‘Outlawed in Pakistan,’ a documentary by Pulitzer Center grantees Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann is one of 15 short documentary films selected for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film is being screened in the Documentary Short Film category during the January 2013 Festival in Utah. “Outlawed in Pakistan” follows the story Kainat Soomro, a […]

• January 27, 2013
• Social Media, Television

By: Gibran Ashraf KARACHI: Lacking resources to compete in the escalating “media war” in an election year, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has turned to the Internet and launched a web television channel called Insaf TV, to combat the blackout they face on prime time airwaves. “The PTI is often blacked out in the mainstream media,” […]

• January 27, 2013
• Broadcasting, Television

By: Sher Khan LAHORE: While it has not been officially banned yet, Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar-nominated Hollywood flick based on the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, is unlikely to be screened in Pakistan. Distributors consider the film, which features the May 2, 2011 US raid on Bin Laden’s Abbottabad complex as its climax, […]

• January 27, 2013
• General News

Karachi: Nazo Bibi, 40, wife of Abdul Rehman, was at the dinner table with her family when two men broke into their residence in Raees Goth in Baldia Town and murdered her. Police said the woman had two children and was killed over a personal enmity. The News

• January 27, 2013
• New Media, Social Media

LAHORE: Social media can play a vital role in socioeconomic uplift and image building of the country as voices heard in the virtual space come from different nooks and corners of Pakistan. This was the crux of the first-ever international Urdu Bloggers Conference 2013, which was organised by the Asian Canadian Journalists Association (ACJA), held […]

• January 27, 2013
• General News

DAVOS: The bravery of Malala Yousufzai has inspired children around the world to fight for a better education, key figures in a UN campaign said on Friday. Hosting a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, UN special education envoy and former British prime minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to 15-year-old Malala, who was […]

• January 27, 2013
• Arts and Entertainment

By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Apparently Quetta and Paris are two cities of this world which do not have much in common. In fact in most cases they are diametrically opposed. However, this is not how the artist community sees things. It always looks deeply into what has been overlooked or hidden from the naked eye. […]