KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry,on Wednesday praised the efforts of the anchorperson of Geo News programme ‘Aaj Kamran Kay Sath’ during the hearing of the suo moto case on the Abbas Town incident in Karachi.The CJ, while lauding Kamran Khan, said that startling information about the blast given in the programme […]
KARACHI: The sea environment and economy was the focus with piracy being the most discussed topic on day two of the 5th international maritime conference titled ‘Regional maritime security dynamics imperatives and inter-dependencies’ at the Bahria University here on Wednesday. “Currently there are seven ships and 113 hostages under the control of Somali pirates,” Dr […]
By: Khalid Hasnain LAHORE: The Punjab government has devised a policy titled “Punjab Outdoor Advertisement and Signboards Policy-2013” empowering the local authorities to determine the location, size, type and density of outdoor advertisements and signboards in accordance with the character of the predominant land use of an area. The government took the measure after a […]
By: Farooq Sulehria The post-modernist dictatorship over media scholarship 1980s onwards has banalised journalistic narratives. While important issues – for instance debate over media imperialism – have been trivialised, trifles have been assigned centrality in the media discourses. In recent years and months, we have seen the consequences of this banality. Kerfuffle over an anti-Islam […]
By: Muhammad Anis ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution against anchorpersons, who are telecasting programmes against parliamentarians without verification of facts but for some personnel agendas. The parliamentarians, while unleashing strong criticism against a particular anchorperson, however, observed that majority of anchorpersons and journalists were performing their duties honestly. “It is […]
By: Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: Banned militant organisations, state’s security institutions and political parties were identified on Wednesday as key elements responsible for attacks on the media, as delegates framed problems to promote collaborative approaches to combating impunity on crimes against journalists during the inaugural day of international conference on safety and security of journalists in […]
By: M Bilal Lakhani Inspired by the most entertaining cricket sensation in the country, it appears that most Pakistani journalists want to change the world with every story they report. ‘Go big, or go home’; that’s the mantra that has come to define Pakistan’s media landscape today. This mantra would explain the flood of breaking […]
By: Arshad Bhatti LAHORE: Students of National College of Arts (NCA) have planned to hold an online Short Film Festival on Friday wherein 10 short movies would be screened. The festival, featuring short films by the students from Pakistan and India, would be held on Friday (tomorrow). The idea of the festival is initiated by […]
100 years of Kinnaird College was celebrated in classic manner as the Najmuddin Dramatics Society exhibited the century year old legacy of KC in a new fashion. The four day show concluded with a jam pack hall including many highlighted personalities. With well-rehearsed dialogues and confident movements around the hall and on stage, the Najmuddin […]
By: Shamshad Ahmad In an unlettered society where one rarely comes across people genuinely into writing or reading and where books are sold not by content but by weight as a waste paper commodity and where book stores are disappearing fast getting converted into video shops or burger stands, the arrival of every single new […]
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