KARACHI: BBC World Service is launching the first ever BBC Urdu TV programme, Sairbeen, which will be broadcast by a private TV channel in Pakistan. From Monday, 11 February, the BBC’s new TV programme in Urdu will air three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 11 pm PST. Sairbeen draws on the […]
KARACHI: Hacked twice in the last three months, PKNIC – a shared registry system that manages the .pk domain name space (DNS) for Pakistani websites – remains vulnerable to basic-level cyber attacks. Though the company has thwarted the recent attack, it is still investigating the security breach. PKNIC, which hosts 23,000 users of the .pk […]
By: Mazhar Abbas “Balach ko apni zameen bhi nahi mili” was the misleading headline ‘given’ to an article written by senior columnist Abdus Salam, alias Dr Chishti Mujahid, printed in the country’s leading Urdu weekly, Akhbar-e-Jehan, at the death of Baloch nationalist leader Mir Balach Marri. This headline eventually resulted in the murder of Dr […]
KARACHI: The respected German publication Der Spiegel is pulling out its Islamabad-based correspondent Hasnain Kazim this year and no one is coming to replace him. As he departs so does the German interest in Pakistan. Kazim, 38, the only German journalist working here, shared his views on Pakistan at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday. […]
By: Zeeshan Azmat Karachi: A group of political activists took the law in their hands on Thursday when they ransacked the office of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) near Nisar Shaheed Park, Phase-IV DHA. According to sources, people affiliated with the Awami National Party (ANP) first opened aerial fire outside the Nadra office. Then […]
KARACHI: Friday is the best day of the week. It is the mother of all days and the most virtuous in the sight of Allah. In the sight of Allah it has more greatness than Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha. There is no day more virtuous than Friday. There is such an hour in this day that […]
Amid the media storm that broke after the gang rape and death of a 23-year-old Delhi girl Jyoti Pandey, two journalists have made a short film that follows the story of a teenage girl allegedly raped in a village in Dadu, rural Sindh in 2007. The story revolves around the central character of the film, […]
LAHORE: Ayesha Haroon, former editor of The News, was laid to rest on Thursday after the Zohr prayers. Her funeral prayers were held at the mosque near her residence 78-Haroon Street, Babar Block, New Garden Town, near Barkat Market. She was buried next to her father’s (Syed Haroon Shah) grave in the family quad at […]
PESHAWAR: The human rights directorate of Peshawar High Court on Thursday disposed of an application filed by a runaway girl against her father, charging him of arranging her forced marriage with a married person. Parents of the teenaged girl and the said person, identified as Irfan Khan, turned up before the director of HR directorate […]
KARACHI: A stage play based on the famous 1980s TV series Aangan Terha will be staged from Feb 8 at the Arts Council Karachi auditorium. This was announced by writer of the play Anwar Maqsood at a press conference at the Arts Council on Thursday. The play would last for 90 days. He said the […]
By: HASSAN RAZA FOLADI RECENTLY the Hazara community has shown great patience and raised their voices in a peaceful and disciplined manner by reciting the Holy Quran all night and without putting any sort of threat to the state apparatus or public properties, against the authorities who have always turned a blind eye for Hazara […]
By: Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: The cellular companies’ sales volume has dropped by about 70 per cent after the Pakistan Telecom Authority banned retail channels for new SIMs over two months ago. The PTA on the direction of the interior ministry allowed the sale of the new connections only through company-owned service centers and franchises, limiting […]
Pakistan Press Foundation has expressed concern over the death threats to Gopal Thapaliya, editor of the Sanghu weekly over a news report on corruption in the capital city, Kathmandu. Quoting information from Freedom Forum, PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to the Prime Minister of Nepal, Thapaliya was threatened by an unknown […]
By: Ashraf Ansari Islamabad: At a seminar on media ethics and court reporting, senior journalists and lawyers agreed that there was urgent need to abide by the professional norms by media, lawyers and other professionals in fulfilment of national imperatives. Islamabad High Court Bar Association organised the seminar in collaboration with Press Council of Pakistan […]
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