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Daily Archives: April 14, 2013

Khalid Ahmed presents double bill at NAPA

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KARACHI: It seems like the under fire National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) is finally spreading its wings. After the success of a 20-day performing arts festival, Napa held a press conference to invite all Karachiites once again for two back-to-back plays directed by veteran actor-director Khalid Ahmed. They call this project the “double bill”. […]


Discussing elections: New media content controlled by owners, not journalists: Speakers

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ISLAMABAD: The 2013 elections might present an opportunity for Pakistani journalists to build trust and credibility with the general public through responsible reporting. But working journalists believe control over published content is not in their hands. At a seminar in Islamabad on Saturday, reporters and anchorpersons debated how journalists should conduct themselves when it comes […]


Internet censorship: Interim set-up says YouTube ban will stay

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ISLAMABAD: Despite the caretaker administration’s willingness to allow YouTube access back in Pakistan, the government was firm in its stance on keeping the ban until the video-sharing website removed the controversial blasphemous video that provoked countrywide violent protests in September last year. “Google Inc, the owner of YouTube, has been engaged in progressive talks recently […]


PNCA, SZABIST join hands to revive film industry

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) and Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) have joined hands to work for the revival of Pakistan’s sagging film industry by producing short films. PNCA has involved the young and creative students of SZABIST’s Media and Communication Studies department by asking them to […]


Rape victim’s ordeal

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THIS is apropos of the report ‘Three acquitted in Mazar rape case’ for want of evidence (April 7). My head hangs in shame. The sessions court in Karachi has acquitted the three men accused of raping a resident woman of Lodhran who came to visit the Mazar-i-Quaid in March 2008. The learned judge disregarded the […]


ECP wants action on media directive

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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked regulators of electronic and print media to ensure compliance of its directive requiring media houses to provide details of political advertisements aired and published by them. The commission had issued the directive on March 26 seeking details of all paid and unpaid political advertisements and other […]


ECP wants action on media directive

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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked regulators of electronic and print media to ensure compliance of its directive requiring media houses to provide details of political advertisements aired and published by them. The commission had issued the directive on March 26 seeking details of all paid and unpaid political advertisements and other […]