• March 28, 2013
• Front Page, Media Ethics

Training workshop KARACHI: White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan (WRCP), in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS) of Germany, organised a training workshop for women journalists under the Continued Professional Education (CPE) programme at a local hotel on Wednesday. HBS Country Director Britta Petersen instructed the journalists on different aspects and issues of ‘Conflict Sensitive Journalism’ […]

• March 28, 2013
• General News

Atle Hetland In our time, it is not uncommon that local news items are broadcasted worldwide, i.e. made into international news. Other news items are truly international. In this article, I shall discuss a few items about religion, media and the economy with emphasis on the moral foundation and superstructure of society. We all have […]

• March 28, 2013
• General News

NAVEED BUTT According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, 32% of Pakistanis think the biggest problem being faced by women today is lack of education. The Survey says that a nation-wide representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was interviewed. Question, “In your opinion, what is […]

• March 28, 2013
• Arts and Entertainment

REGARDED as the pioneer of modern Punjabi poetry and literature, Amrita Pritam got immediate fame when she wrote the poignant poem ‘Ajj Aakhan Waris Shah Nuu’. In this poem she had expressed her anguish on the massacre of about one million people in Punjab in communal violence following the partition of British India in 1947. […]

• March 28, 2013
• General News

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has strongly refuted the allegation that it murdered journalist Malak Mumtaz. Not only that, it has condoled with the family of the murdered journalist and offered to help trace the murderers. Noted TV anchors have presented their above-mentioned statements as if the TTP fellows are quite humane and respect human life. Ironically, […]

• March 28, 2013
• Print Media

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has welcomed the appointment of Najam Sethi as the Punjab caretaker Chief Minister and hoped that during his tenure in office, the cordial relations between the Punjab provincial government and APNS will be more strengthened. According to a press release the President and Secretary General of the APNS […]

• March 28, 2013
• Broadcasting, Social Media

Maleeha Hamid Siddiqui KARACHI: What does Twitter mean to tweeters and tweetaholics? Is it a medium that can be trusted? Or is it to be kept at an arm’s length? These and other interrelated questions were raised by writer and film-maker Tan Siok Siok in the aptly titled Twittermentary, which was screened at T2F on […]