• February 14, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, New Media, Social Media

In a bid to eradicate grey trafficking, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday approved ‘The Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organisation) Bill of 2012’, which would be presented before the lower house of parliament in the next session. The committee, which met under Chaudhry Barjees Tahir, expressed irritation over the alleged silence by officials […]

• February 14, 2013
• Arts and Entertainment

Ammar Shahbazi Intizar Husain is one of those rare writers who make efforts to spread misconceptions about themselves, said Shamim Hanfi, a New Delhi-based literary critic. Delivering a lecture titled ‘An unparalleled literary master: Intizar Husain’ at the Arts Council on Wednesday, Hanfi said, “Nobody has worked so hard to distort the interpretation of his […]

• February 14, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

This refers to your editorial ‘YouTube blockade’ (Jan 29). The continuous ban on YouTube serves no purpose when the whole world has an access to it. I believe that we must register our protest now. It is time to move ahead. For how long will we be having no access to various materials on the […]

• February 14, 2013
• Arts and Entertainment

KARACHI: Leading Indian poet Gulzar, who won an Oscar for writing song lyrics for the smash hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire”, has pulled out of the Karachi Literary festival at the last minute, organisers said Wednesday. Syed Ahmed Shah, one of the organisers of the Karachi Literature Festival, confirmed Gulzar had pulled out – just two […]

• February 14, 2013
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed all the satellite TV channels to observe the religious and cultural ethos before conceptualising any programme with regard to Valentine’s Day. Pemra has held that as per complaints of the viewers, the programmes aired by TV channels in the past were not in conformity with the […]

• February 14, 2013
• General News

SUKKUR: Three women were killed over Karo Kari on Wednesday. Police said a man Ghulam Sarwar Jalbani axed to death his wife Shabnam on the charge of illicit relations in the limits of Ratodero and absconded. Police shifted the body to a local hospital, but failed to arrest the killer. In the case of other […]

• February 14, 2013
• General News

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged the government to immediately intervene to help five Pakistani crew members stuck on their ship at an anchorage in India who have not been paid salaries for months and only have food left for a few more days. The Commission said in a statement on […]

• February 14, 2013
• General News

MARDAN: Suspected militants blew up a primary school for girls in the limits of Katlang Police Station late Tuesday night, the police said. The explosives planted in the building of the Govt Girls Primary School in Taja Koroona, Shero village, went off at around 11:30pm. The explosion destroyed a room and veranda and partially damaged […]

• February 14, 2013
• General News

BATTAGRAM: The body of a woman was recovered from a drain here on Wednesday. Police said the deceased’s brother shot dead her husband few months back. According to the police, they recovered the bullet-riddled body of a woman from a drain near Kosir Masjid. The body was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital, where the deceased […]

• February 14, 2013
• Arts and Entertainment, Print Media

Faiz Ahmed Faiz would have turned 102 years old yesterday. In his absence, the world has changed. Pakistan has changed. And yet, his memory remains a constant amongst the people. Those close to him remember him as a multi-faceted man who became the voice of a generation through the power of his poetry and his […]

• February 14, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD: Months after the initial ban on popular video sharing site, YouTube, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) on Wednesday announced that the government still has no intention of unblocking it. The PTA apprised the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday regarding the status of YouTube, which was banned after the launch of […]

• February 14, 2013
• Arts and Entertainment

ISLAMABAD: On the surface, the Pakistan-Swedish artist Ubaid Syed and the Swedish artist Ivan Joern never met. But displayed together, their paintings have a strange harmony that intrigues the viewer, as observed at the latest exhibition at Nomad Gallery on Wednesday. Syed paints nature albeit with a bizarre and melancholic twist. Dark Hues of blue, […]

• February 14, 2013
• General News

KARACHI: Farzana Majeed has done her masters in biochemistry from Balochistan University, and now is enrolled in the MPhil programme. If she wasn’t a Baloch she’d be either wearing a white coat and working in a lab or, like many young people her age, struggling to get a job. Or at least turning up for […]

• February 14, 2013
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE – President Asif Ali Zadari has said that the role of media is vital for a stable democratic system in the country. Talking to Nawa-i-Waqt Group Managing Director Majid Nizami at a luncheon meeting at Bilawal House on Wednesday, the president said the role and contribution made by the media to the restoration of […]