By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: The government’s ban on video-sharing website YouTube has been protested on Twitter and Facebook time and again by everyone from ordinary citizens to journalists and musicians in the past four months. While most have tried to live a life without YouTube — either by using Vimeo and Dailymotion — or around […]
By: SAIDA FAZAL Tahirul Qadri who flew in from his home in Canada with the stated objective of saving this state from politicians and the unstated aim of derailing the democratic system by launching his January 14 subversive ‘long march’ and a sit-in but managed to barely save his face, continues to make provocative claims. […]
By: Mashal Usman KARACHI: The search for the quintessential common man and how he juggles his way through seemingly terrible options in life is what defines Arif Mahmood’s latest works. Mahmood is an eminent street photographer, whose exhibition ‘Philosophy’ is on display at Chawkandi Art Gallery till February 13. Photographers, models, artists and students filled […]
Standard Chartered Bank launched a regional social media competition where fans stand a chance to win a limited edition signed Liverpool Football Club (LFC) shirt. The LFC shirt will have the ‘Seeing is believing’ logo instead of the Standard Chartered logo to raise awareness about the Bank’s global initiative to raise US $100 million by […]
BY: HINA ALI The media, of late, has started resorting to the cheapest and most vile form of sensationalism there is by moral policing the citizens on live television broadcasts. First we had a certain Miss Maya Khan who shocked viewers by ‘exposing’ young boys and girls in a public park who were doing nothing […]
By: Mahrukh Abbasi GOTEBORG: The 36th Goteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in Sweden gave the team of Pakistani film Good Morning Karachi (GMK) a reason to visit their brutally cold city this time of year. Why else would one fly to Sweden if not for the recognition of their independent project premiered at the largest […]
FAISALABAD: A man was arrested for allegedly beating his wife to death on Wednesday in Chak 7. Nishatabad police said that Muhammad Yaseen had an argument with his wife Niamat Bibi. They said he then beat her up with a stick and left when she collapsed. Some neighbours took her to Allied Hospital, where she […]
KARACHI: Hoping to get the government realise the environmental impact of building new dams and barrages, members of the the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) would embark on a 13-day “long march” to Islamabad on March 2. They hope to descend on the capital on March 14, in time to mark the International Day of Action […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The ongoing power tussle in the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) took a new twist on Wednesday when hundreds of protesters demanded that the chief justice of Pakistan take suo moto notice of the ‘illegal’ harassment of two members of the authority. The protesters, including PTA officers and representatives of the Internet […]
By: Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: I woke up last Sunday morning with the noise of thundering clouds. The red light of my cell phone was blinking. Inside it was a text message from Absar Alam waiting for me: “Ayesha Haroon is no more.” The news of her death played havoc with me. She was my ‘Madam’ […]
Teenager Malala Yousafzai has undergone successful surgery at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth hospital and is said to be making a good recovery. The multiple surgeries were intended to replace a damaged part of her cranium and to restore some degree of hearing in her left ear. It will take Malala some weeks to recover from the […]
KARACHI: Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has appealed for media restrictions on the courts’ remarks during general elections to discourage any party from taking advantage of them. Addressing an event rewarding employees of the Pakistan Steel Mill (PSM) with Jahez Fund cheques, he said the government respected court verdicts as opposed to what PML-N […]
By: Ashrafuddin Pirzada LANDIKOTAL: Leaders of various political parties in the tribal areas on Wednesday said they were optimistic that women’s participation in the upcoming elections would bring about a positive change in the political atmosphere. Gulalai Wazir of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf said her party would encourage women and help them go to the polling […]
By: Jawwad Rizvi LAHORE: The Cabinet Division has cancelled all orders issued by two members of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in exercise of the powers of the PTA chairman. The two members had been exercising these powers after the Lahore High Court set aside the appointment of PTA Chairman Farooq Awan on January 15, 2013. […]
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