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Jang Group recognises top ranking universities

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Islamabad: The Jang Group gave awards to the Higher Education Commission’s top ranked universities of Pakistan here on Thursday. Ali Moeen Nawazish conducted the programme, whereas Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal was the chief guest on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Jang Group Managing Director Marketing Sarmad Ali said: “It is […]


PEMRA, IG and Commissioner Islamabad held responsible for Islamabad shootout

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ISLAMABAD: The after effects of the firing from an armed man, naming Sikandar, have started to arriving. A lawyer Tariq Asad Advocate has hold responsible Inspector General of Islamabad, Commissioner and Chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulator Authority (PEMRA) responsible for the Islamabad drama, which lasted for five hours or above. Azam has filed a […]


KP unveils information ordinance on 18th

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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will unveil the right to information ordinance on Aug 18 (Sunday) during a special function to be attended by provincial Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan.The ordinance will come into force with immediate effect, say the relevant officials. The officials told Dawn on Thursday that Khyber […]


Investing in IT

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LOS ANGELES: This is with reference to your story of August 7 titled “Pakistan to establish its first laptop assembly plant”. I used to be a professor of business at a university. I left teaching and started three different companies and also did sub-contracting. My company went public and was acquired by IBM. I have […]


The YouTube ban

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If adult sites can be effectively blocked in Pakistan, why cant objectionable material be banned on YouTube? It is incomprehensible why a decision on unblocking the site cannot be taken. Is the matter more complicated than the Kashmir problem? Jahanzeb Rawalpindi The News


Drawn Attack opens at Canvas

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KARACHI: South Asia is a special region in terms of its socio-political environment and its art and artists. Quite like its colourful, kaleidoscopic and on occasion chequered political history, art too has had its multihued phases, some of which have carried on. The tradition of decorating buildings and artworks is one of them. A two-person […]


Facebook ruining teenagers

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TEENAGERS nowadays spend most of their time on Facebook. Their morning is with Facebook and their evening is with Facebook. This results in the lack of personality development and speaking skills. I do not understand how reading about other people’s lives or wasting time looking at tons of pictures is time well spent. Facebook is […]


Censoring social media: Government caught between fans and foes

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ISLAMABAD: When Max Kelly left his job of the chief security officer at the Facebook in 2010, he just disappeared from the screens of the virtual world – only to be discovered after Edward Snowden rocked the real world with his revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had been snooping on the cyber […]