KARACHI: Internet users are likely to face a slowdown in browsing speed once again as an important submarine cable that manages 40% of the country’s total bandwidth (internet traffic) will undergo maintenance and repairs from April 28, industry sources say and suggest that given the undersea cables’ vulnerability to damage, Pakistan needs to increase its […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Agency lost its music in 2006; when the sound of mortar shells drowned the music from the rabab, and singers were forced to leave their homes. Wazir Afridi, 32, once an aspiring musician now works in a factory in the city. He is one of the many singers who had to abandon both […]
Anil Datta Karachi: An art show opened at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture on Wednesday evening, featuring six young artists with varying styles and schools of painting. There is the more conventional form of art of young Muhammad Atif Khan. Two of his works – Migration (i) and Migration (ii) – are […]
ISLAMABAD: A Radio Pakistan spokesperson while commenting on a story by Waseem Abbasi published in Daily The News Rawalpindi, Wednesday, made it clear that the organization is giving equal coverage to all political parties during election campaign. The PBC spokesman termed contents of news in this regard as contrary to the facts. The spokesperson said […]
ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Pervaiz Shaukat on Wednesday served Rs1 billion defamation notice to the Secretary Information for providing false and malicious information to the Supreme Court regarding inclusion of his name among the beneficiaries of the secret fund. Pervaiz Shaukat, through Malik Ghulam Mustafa Kandwal, wrote in the legal […]
LAHORE: Capital City Police Wednesday arrested Chief Editor Khabrain Zia Shahid and Editor Imtnan Shahid over non-payment of Rs850,000 dues to widow of an employee under Wage Board award. Both were taken into custody by SP, Civil Lines, Fida Hussain and SHO, Civil Lines. Chairman Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees Nasir Hussain Haideri, on a […]
Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: A Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) professor is under investigation on charges of making sexual advances towards a female student.It is alleged that he first forced the student to write her thesis under his supervision and later fabricated a case of plagiarism after she refused sexual favours. It is the third incident in QAU […]
KARACHI: ‘What’s in a name’ famously said Juliet in one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. But in this day and age it seems names have begun to matter like never before. A six-person exhibition titled ‘My Name Is…’ opened at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Gallery on Wednesday. The title of the show is […]
SWABI: Five media persons, who are contesting election to the National Assembly and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seats from Swabi district, have pledged that in case of victory they would stay in their constituencies to serve their own people. Two of them are contesting election on tickets of their respective political parties and the remaining three […]
LAHORE: A mother of three children was found hanging from the ceiling at her house in Qila Gujjar Singh area, police investigators said Wednesday. The family told the police that the deceased, Najma Bibi, 35, had been residing in the three-Marla house of her parents in the Dhobi Ghaat locality. Her mother and sisters were […]
Iftikhar Alam LAHORE – With latest and widely shared post on facebook that carries the message: “We want a democratic demand between Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan” and dozens of other interesting political slogans, chit chat, criticism, favoritism, liking, disliking and comments, the social media has been playing an appealing and vital role in election […]
ISLAMABAD – Seven senior journalists have submitted applications to the Supreme Court to become party in the Information Ministry secret funds case. The applicants, in their pleas, took the stand that the report issued about the secret funds was false and based on mala fide intentions. They prayed to the court to give them a […]
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