2013/14 Fellowship – Apply Online Become the next Neuffer Fellow The Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship is designed for a woman journalist working in print, broadcast or digital news media to spend seven months in a tailored program that combines access to MIT’s Center for International Studies and media outlets including The Boston Globe and The New […]
PESHAWAR – Radio can play a tremendous role in the mass awareness in the rural areas and the radio activities are required to be enhanced in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) though keeping in view the cultural and traditional values of the region. This was agreed upon in a one-day consultative stakeholder’s workshop to […]
KARACHI- Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has constituted Press Council Committee, says a press release issued by CPNE Secretary General Amir Mehmood on Wednesday. Khushnood Ali Khan (Daily Sahafat) was nominated as Chairman, while Rameeza Majid Nizami (Daily Nawa-i-Waqt) as Vice Chairperson of the newly formed committee. Other members of Press Council Committee (PCC) […]
By Mashal Usman KARACHI: Never did miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ seem so spiteful nor did the prince of Urdu ghazal, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, seem so wise as they did on Tuesday as children from ninth grade gathered to act out the lives of these literati. The parents, who […]
By Shahid Mahmood The writer is a Canada-based editorial cartoonist and his work has appeared in several international publications We are living in a time of leveraged credit and distressed debt. Financially weak institutions own a large proportion of our riskiest assets. A volatile market has erased the savings of millions. Stabilising both market and […]
By Asad Kharal The new system, dubbed “Evil Mobile Software”, allows people to send text messages from any mobile number. LAHORE: The message says you still have a chance to win Rs50,000 an hour as long as you respond “WIN” to 5555. It is signed by a major cellular service provider but comes from an […]
LAHORE: Najam Sethi has lauded the Freedom of Information Act approved by the Punjab Cabinet, saying that the move shows good intention of the provincial government. In Geo News programme, ‘Aapas Ki Baat’, he said that the new Act would ensure a lot of freedom to get information and transparency to such a level that […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: In art time and space matter as much as nature or anything related to socio-cultural issues faced by man on a regular basis. Time indicates the epoch in which artists set their work while space signifies the milieu where their subjects exist. And when the subject is the female figure with all […]
KARACHI: Women journalists were awarded at the country’s first women in media awards ceremony organised by Uks, a research, resource and publication centre on women and media, on Wednesday. “It is great to see women journalists getting recognition through the Uks platform, but while celebrating today’s media women we should also remember the pioneers such […]
LAHORE: In its preliminary report after a fact-finding mission to the Joseph Colony in Badami Bagh, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has held the police and the provincial administration squarely responsible for the attack on Christian homes earlier this week. The mission’s purpose was to “present facts — regarding the incident of violence […]
GUJRANWALA: The chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), Tariq Malik, said on Wednesday that voter lists of Karachi would be handed over to the Election Commission of Pakistan in two days. He told reporters after the inauguration of a Nadra office in Gujranwala that there were 86 million registered voters in the […]
By Sanaa Jatoi The writer is a third year student at Mount Holyoke College in the US. She is also the opinions and editorials editor for Mount Holyoke News I come from a family with no male head of household. After my father’s passing in 2005, it has been my mother, my sisters and me. […]
Intikhab Hanif LAHORE: The draft of the Freedom of the Information Act the provincial cabinet had approved on Monday is an altogether different version of the original document. Thankfully, it denies what the provincial bureaucracy wanted it to be and allows people to adequately know what the government is doing or not doing for them. […]
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