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Daily Archives: March 12, 2013

Media must follow ethical standards

KARACHI: Media professionals, especially working journalists should be careful about ethical standards and principles while performing their duties, said Mubeen Azhar, a senior journalist working with a foreign media organisation. Speaking at a seminar titled ‘Guide to Media Ethics’ held at Department of Mass Communication, University of Karachi (KU) on Monday, he said that Pakistan’s […]


Pakistan’s minorities are under attack and the country’s blasphemy laws must share the blame

By: Andrew Buncombe The accusation alone of blasphemy has led to violence that has claimed countless lives. And the cases themselves are usually about something else Christian community leaders in Lahore say the violence unleashed on the city’s Joseph colony erupted following a drinking session involving two friends, one Muslim and the other Christian. They […]


All minorities — please leave Pakistan!

By: Yaqoob Khan Bangash Yes, you read it correctly. I am asking all minorities — ethnic, religious, denominational — and any other people who consider themselves a minority of any kind, to please leave Pakistan. Yes, I know that this means that Hindus who have lived in Sindh for millennia should leave, that Christians from […]


Womens struggle in Pakistani workplaces

Last week, the world celebrated womens day with accolades for high-achieving women in various spheres of life. In Pakistan, meanwhile, pretty much a mans country in a mans world, women still continue to struggle in workplaces in more than one ways. Harassment at the workplace is something Pakistani women have come to accept as a […]


Emirates-Pakistan, Geo to work for revival of cinema in country

KARACHI: Geo has once again fulfilled its promises. In 2012, when the Emirates Airlines-sponsored super hit film “London, Paris, New York” was released, Geo had made a promise to viewers of the film that air tickets for London, Paris and New York on the Emirates Airlines will be presented as gift to those lucky persons […]


Celebrating women

By: Bina Shah IN early March I was fortunate to attend the Ladiesfund 2013 awards. This is an annual event set up by T.U. Dawood. The ceremony’s aim is to celebrate the achievements of women in business, and over the last five years the event has grown from something quite small to something quite amazing […]


Jalibs for everyone

By: Asha’ar Rehman IT has been exactly 20 years — 20 long years — since Habib Jalib passed away on March 12, 1993. The anger shows no signs of ebbing. The street agitation spearheaded by Jalib continues unabated, with one or another manifestation of him unavoidably in the central role. Back in the 1990s, when […]


Ismat Chughtai remembered

By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Diverse views were expressed on the life and works of legendary Urdu fiction writer Ismat Chughtai at an event held to discuss the publication of the second edition of the book titled ‘Ismat Apa’ by Shakila Rafique at the Arts Council Karachi on Monday evening. Prof Sahar Ansari, who presided over […]


Media asked to reorient projection of women’s issues

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By: Anil Datta Karachi: Pakistan is portrayed negatively not only in the foreign media but in the local ones too. If the media, as an institution, decides to make a difference, it needs to slowly work strategies into the system that can help improve civil society. This was the consensus emerging from an informal group […]