ISLAMABAD: A summary has been moved to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seeking approval to place an interim arrangement for appointing an acting head of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for the time being to run its day to day affairs, The News has learnt. “We are expecting that some kind of interim arrangement to run […]
ISLAMABAD: A journalist is receiving life threats and obnoxious messages on his mobile phone from some unknown persons while police are doing nothing to protect him. Israr Ahmed, crime reporter of an English national daily, has been given life threats by some unknown persons on his cell number for many days. He has lodged a […]
KARACHI: A three-day exhibition titled ‘Paiwasta Reh Shajar Se’, curated by Sophia Qureshi and conceptualised and organised by Mehreen Hashmi, concluded at the Alliance Francaise Karachi on Saturday. The show was the result of a 10-day workshop conducted in July during which students of BPW Quality School, Azam Basti, produced no fewer than 60 paintings […]
Karachi: The city is dotted with art galleries and there’s hardly a juncture when there aren’t at least three or four exhibitions running concurrently. Some of these, however, come as a whiff of fresh air, in that they are so different from the present-day trend which aims at just abstractism and modernism, requiring of the […]
IT was a move that left many scratching their heads in disbelief in the first place, and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just made it worse. Last year, the PTA issued a directive to cellular mobile operators that late-night talk and SMS packages offered at cheap rates be curtailed because it was an issue of […]
THE federal government has increased TV licence fee quietly. Most of the people are unaware of it because this fee is included in our electricity bills. Doing this without informing the people is unfair and unacceptable. This is strange as it is related to the ministry of information. Is there any justification for an increase […]
LAHORE: “Aslam-o-Alaikum, I am your Khadim-e-Aala wanting to confirm whether you have received the completion certificate of your building from the Lahore Development Authority. Were you asked for speed money? Please reply in ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to a short message service (text message) that follows.” Surprised was Asifa when she received this call from Chief […]
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