Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is concerned to learn that two photojournalists accredited to cover Ghana’s 56th independence anniversary ceremony were physically assaulted by security officials at the event. Quoting information from The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Nii Martey Botwe of the state-owned Daily Graphic had his genitals electrocuted, his colleague, Vincent Dzatse, of […]
BY: Anil Datta Karachi: The Fomma Museum was the venue of a highly informative and interesting lecture Tuesday evening on the pioneers of art in Pakistan by noted art critic and journalist Marjorie Hussein. Alongside the country’s art history, for many it was nostalgic trip back in time, especially for those few surviving who were […]
BY: Jamil Nasir “The average North Carolina housewife had to walk 148 miles per year while carrying 3.5 tons of water. There is no more important event that liberated women than the invention of running water and indoor plumbing, which happened in urban America between 1890 and 1930”, wrote professor Robert J Gordon in one […]
MUMBAI: American director Steven Spielberg is planning to produce a film set partly on the heavily militarised Line of Control, between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region, a report said on Tuesday. Spielberg, who is currently in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai, told the Times of India that the film would be produced by […]
Conference urges social security benefits for women workers through enactment or amendment in respective laws LAHORE: Speakers at a conference urged the need to install concrete mechanisms for implementation of Women Empowerment Package 2012 at district and tehsil levels to ensure that the benefits of the package reach women living in remote and far-flung districts […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: As the cliché goes, art reflects life. And over the centuries this particular cliché has stirred quite a bit of debate, especially among the ancient Greek philosophers. Some of them believed that since art reflected life it was a form of imitation. But other proponents of this theory believed that though […]
Hosted by Dawood Global Foundation in partnership with Dawood Capital Management Ltd, the fifth Ladiesfund Women’s Awards for Pakistan ceremony was held at The Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, with 300 of the most influential women in Pakistan in attendance. Chief guests included First Women Bank Ltd’s President Shaqfat Sultana and Poetress of Pakistan Zehra Nigah, […]
SUKKUR: Renowned folk singer Ustad Ghulam Ali Sandelo, who breathed his last at Larkana hospital on late Monday night, was laid to rest at his native graveyard in Rohri on Tuesday afternoon. Two days ago, Sandelo was rushed to a private hospital in Larkana because of a lung infection. His Namaz-e-Janaza was offered at the […]
LANDI KOTAL: The residents of Sheen Qamar area in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency have demanded of the authorities to send mobile teams of Nadra to the locality to issue computerised national identity cards (CNICs) to them. “Hundreds of people in Sheen Qamar area await issuance of CNICs as they find it difficult to travel […]
By: Momin Iftikhar In the recent international media propaganda Pakistan’s tribal areas has figured again as a global jihad hub, consisting of thousands of foreign fighters from diverse countries. The AFP reported: “Pakistan is still a major destination for radicalised Muslims bent on a life of jihad, despite hundreds of US drone strikes, the death […]
According to international media, more than 48 journalists have been killed in Pakistan by various terror groups and state agencies in the last few years Pakistani and international print and electronic media have been publishing heartbreaking reports on the harassment of journalists by Pakistan state security agencies and militant groups since 9/11. The Taliban, sectarian […]
ISLAMABAD: The nation is geared towards the first-ever election under the watchful gaze of vibrant media and new modes of social communication, said speakers at a seminar titled ‘Election-2013 @ Media’ and called for voluntary code of conduct to define the rules of the game. The seminar was arranged by the Centre for Civic Education […]
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