Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Great writers see ahead of their time, therefore their writings have an air of timelessness about them. Sadat Hasan Manto and Rajinder Singh Bedi are two of Urdu’s foremost storytellers. The National Academy of Performing Arts’ stage productions of Manto’s short story ‘Badhshahat Ka Khatma’ and Bedi’s play ‘Naql-i-Makani’ — both directed […]
ON March 31, in an unprecedented move two women — Badam Zari from Bajaur and Nusrat Begum from Lower Dir — filed nomination papers for the election. A former district vice president with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Nusrat Begum is the first woman candidate from Lower Dir, a district where women voters were often barred in […]
Madeeha Syed KARACHI: “No one knows the world in Pakistan as well as you do. Tell that story through your films,” said award-winning New York-based Indian filmmaker Mira Nair during a session on ‘Independent film financing and publicity’ on the last day of the International Conference on Film and Television. The three-day conference organised by […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is likely to issue an order on Monday for making public a list of media houses and journalists who had received government money in the name of national security after it is testified by the information ministry to be a true document. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja and […]
By Saba Imtiaz In the contentious 1990s, politicians used the floor of the parliament and rallies to rail against opponents. Pakistan’s newest crop of politicians isn’t taking to the mic but to the smartphone. Over the past few years, most mainstream political and religious parties — from the PML-N and the ANP to the PTI […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has lauded the services of Federal Information Secretary, Agha Nadeem, and Principal Information Officer (PIO), Imran Gardezi, for decentralising the media policy, says an announcement here Wednesday. The Dawn Media Group CEO, Hameed Haroon, in a resolution thanked Information Secretary Agha Nadeem and Principal Information Officer Imran Gardezi […]
Karachi: The provincial Election Commission on Wednesday announced the names of 127 women candidates of different political parties whose nomination papers have been approved after proper scrutiny for the 29 reserved seats of Sindh Assembly. As per the Election Commission’s notification, the 27 women candidates from Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarian are: Shagufta Jumani, Syeda Shehla […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is writing letters to the media representative bodies and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) asking private media to avoid carrying the statements of banned outfits. “This ministry, however, is addressing a letter to the All Pakistan Newspaper Society, Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors, Pakistan Broadcasters Association as […]
Anil Datta Karachi: Landscapes, still life, abstracts, semi-abstracts and others – they were all there, on exhibition and, subsequently, for sale; all the walls of the Grandeur Art Gallery were studded with artworks. To be exact, there were 42 of them – all forms of art: vintage works and more recent ones, adorning the walls […]
Anil Datta Karachi: A collage of buildings with a surreal touch, including a church, a mosque, and a Mandir—-This is Tabinda Chinoy’s vision of a society embedded in tolerance and harmony. Tabinda just doesn’t paint at random. Her paintings are a projection of her sublime dreams. She longs for a society where all religions happily […]
LAHORE: Strongly condemning the attacks on political leaders, workers and their candidates, that have already resulted in many deaths, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to fulfil its duty of protecting the politicians and also urged upon all parties to face the threat of violence unitedly instead of being […]
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