Islamabad: National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has proposed a comprehensive solution of Biometric based verification of CNICs for issuance of SIMs to the Telcos. In this regard NADRA conducted a live demonstration of Biometric verification of computerized national identity card for issuance of SIMs, to the TELCOs Todays at NADRA Headquarters. NADRA gave a […]
Dr Qaisar Rashid One wonders why this section of writers cannot envision the role of the Pashtuns in Afghanistan without the Taliban Are peace and Afghanistan two conflicting concepts? Is it really lunacy to think of peace and Afghanistan simultaneously? During the Taliban era (1996-2001), Afghanistan might have experienced peace but that was under a […]
By Mudassir Raja RAWALPINDI: A woman committed suicide on Tuesday after her ex-husband killed the man she had allegedly eloped with a day earlier in Dheri Hassanabad on Tuesday. According to Civil Lines Police Station House Officer Raja Shakeel, Bibi burnt herself to death in her home at around 4pm. He said that police had […]
February: The government is planning to give tax incentive package to local TV industry by applying reduced rate of one percent customs duty on the import of LCD/LED panel under SRO.565(I)/2006 and reducing sales tax on TV from 16 to 5 percent as final discharge of liability. Sources told Business Recorder here on Tuesday that […]
The Pakistan Peoples’ Party Human Rights Cell has commended women’s struggle for human rights on the National Day for Women. The cell members recounted that many women have made the nation proud. “Women of Pakistan have defined, strived for and worked towards a rights-based polity. Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah, Shaheeed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Begum Nusrat Bhutto […]
By Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The Sufi shrines culture appeals to the artist community for several reasons, most of which have to do with the spiritual facet of existence. Not many art lovers, and even artists themselves, realise that it is the physical side of things which, at least initially, draws them to the shrine milieu. […]
KARO-Kari is a type of premeditated honour killing, which originated in rural and tribal areas of Sindh. The homicidal acts are primarily committed against women who are thought to have brought dishonour to their family by engaging in illicit pre-marital or extra-marital relations. To restore the so-called honour, a male family member must kill the […]
By Muhammad Yasir KARACHI: The cellular operators are mulling on different options for introducing new SIM sales mechanism to ensure transparent system throughout the retail outlets’ network at minimum expenses. Officials of the cellular phone companies said that operators have proposed different mechanisms for deployment of new system in whole sector after conducting separate financial […]
* Governor says protecting culture, traditions is responsibility of state LAHORE: The 27th annual exhibition of paintings, sculpture and graphic arts by the Artists’ Association of Punjab kicked off at Alhamra Art Gallery on Tuesday. Punjab Governor Makhdoom Syed Ahmad Mahmood inaugurated the exhibition. He admired the artwork displayed on the occasion. Talking about the […]
Karachi: Provincial Minister for Culture Sassui Palijo has said that Faiz Ahmed Faiz was the evergreen personality, brave journalists, enlightened, progressive mind and an optimistic poet. Expressing her views on Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s 102nd birth anniversary. Minister Culture Sassui Palijo while paying rich tribute to eminent writer, poet and an intellectual Faiz Ahmed Faiz said […]
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