Peerzada Salman KARACHI, March 1: The women’s rights movement in Pakistan is basically a political struggle, said renowned social activist Anis Haroon while delivering the 13th annual Hamza Wahid lecture organised by the Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences at the PMA House on Friday evening. Ms Haroon recalled the days when she was in college […]
By Seema Mustafa The writer is a consulting editor with The Statesman and writes widely for several newspapers in India South Asia is not kind to its journalists. A free media is scary for both state and non-state actors, who resort to all kinds of measures to keep it in check. From outright violence to […]
Naeem Tahir Advertising revenue is the main source of income for TV channel owners and they would want their programmes to be considered popular to get advertising revenues There are said to be 87 TV licences given by the government in the past. Countless TV networks came into being. Private TV channels are revenue based. […]
LARKANA, March 1: The executive board of the National Fund for Moenjodaro has approved creation of a scout force to protect the 5,000-year-old city from the onslaught of visitors on traditional festivals, like Eid and other public holidays. The board decided in its 5th meeting held at Moenjodaro on Friday that 40 scouts would be […]
Sir: YouTube has been banned in Pakistan for nearly 163 days now. However, the ban has brought little good. The anti-Islam video, which was the root cause of the ban, is still viewable to the entire world on YouTube. Moreover, more than 1 million links on the internet lead to the video as copies of […]
By Rafia Asim While driving on the mall road in Lahore, one notices a handful of people sitting at the Charring Cross round about, holding rain drenched placards and banners, with desolate faces. Among these handful men in shalwar kamiz are one or two young Lahore-based activists, trying hard to aide these balochi speaking protestors […]
Saleem Shahid QUETTA, March 1: Terrorists shot dead Mehmood Afridi, a senior journalist and President of the Kalat Press Club, on Friday evening. Mr Afridi was sitting in a private Public Call Office in Kalat Bazaar when gunmen on a motorcycle came there and opened fire. “Mr Afridi suffered multiple bullet wounds and died on […]
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