In what is being called an arson attack, the office of Independent News Pakistan — a news agency — was gutted on Sunday morning in Islamabad. Starting in the wee hours of the morning from the entry gate and spreading out to the main building, the fire ravaged everything in its path including extremely sensitive […]
By Razzak Abro KARACHI: The Karachi Press Club (KPC), which was once considered by politicians and journalists a safe haven, even during the worst law and order situations, has seemingly lost its status of being ‘sanctuary’. The looming terrorism threat was evident from the worried posture of politicians and large number of journalists at the […]
LAHORE: Transparency International Pakistan has disclosed that the Sindh government has used secret funds belonging to the ministry of information to “buy the media”. In a letter to Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the advisor to the watchdog, Syed Adil Gilani has said that his organisation had pleaded during the hearing on April 2 in […]
By Noman Ahmed KARACHI: A pioneering film academy initiative of the country that came to a grinding halt last week is expected to open its gates once again but this ‘temporary arrangement’ will last only three weeks. Into its fourth year, the South Asian Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Television (Saampt) was abruptly closed […]
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious concern at reports of apparently unauthorised raids and disappearance of several individuals in Kech and Gwadar districts of Balochistan and the killing of two political workers in Sindh. In a statement issued on Monday, the Commission said: “It is a matter of great concern that […]
KARACHI: A Malaysian multinational company and a subsidiary of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation have locked horns over construction of a 47-storey high-rise IT Tower in Karachi. According to highly-placed sources, the IM Technologies Pakistan, a subsidiary of the Malaysian multinational company, has moved the Singapore-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration for […]
Faisal Quraishi LAHORE: The Central Asian landscape was inspiration for opening designer Faiza Samee’s collection of short and mid-length tunics and bias cuts that saw a fusion of stripes with polka dots and geometric prints on Day Four, which was also the last day of the PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week. Maheen Karim showed flirty silhouettes […]
Zubair Kasuri ISLAMABAD: The government has decided in principle to open YouTube once again, it has been learnt reliably.Responsible government sources told ‘The News’ that YouTube would be opened within a few days and all the necessary arrangements had been finalised in this regard. The sources further said that the government department’s concerned and private […]
A grave situation prevails in Balochistan where the civil society organizations have removed boards and name plates from their office buildings, their staff and officials do not carry ID cards or any other document while travelling for the fear of militants. According to them the NGO people are the main target of militants and other […]
Javed Aziz Khan PESHAWAR: The provincial capital lost the second journalist in bomb blasts in less than two weeks, though both were not the targets of the bombings. Hailing from Peshawar, Arif Shafi, who had been working at a news agency in Kabul for the last couple of years, was caught in the University Road […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The four-day European short film festival ended at the Alliance Française on Sunday evening. The first set of half a dozen films (documentaries) was titled ‘Everything You Wanted to Know about Europe but Were Afraid to Ask’. It kicked of with an Irish documentary ‘Bye Bye Now’ directed by Aideen O’Sullivan and […]
KARACHI: Although the Sindh government claims to have followed all relevant rules while publishing an advertisement in newspapers for hiring consultants, it has cancelled the process in ‘public interest’ after the Transparency International Pakistan had raised some questions, Dawn has learnt. However, officials said that if the rules had been followed, the cancellation of the […]
GILGIT: A three-day exhibition of handicrafts under the auspices of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan was opened at a local hotel on Sunday. The event was inaugurated by the member GB Legislative Assembly Amna Ansari. Fifty stalls of various products prepared from all over Pakistan were put on display at the exhibition. Renowned dress […]
Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL: Three government-run radio stations in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are faced with the danger of closure, as the Fata Secretariat has withheld payment of salaries to employees and other related operational expenditures of these stations since the start of this year. “We are awaiting payment of our salaries and other […]
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