Karachi: The Arts Council of Pakistan has announced the suspension of its activities for three days to protest against the Peshawar carnage of Sunday and express solidarity with the bereaved families In a message issued on Monday, the office- bearers of the arts council’s city chapter said that the attack on a church in Peshawar […]
Islamabad : NADRA has recently tried to introduce a ‘Smart Card’ with a number of features that certainly warrant appreciation. I happened to visit the NADRA office along with my wife and two children last week for acquiring this newly-launched Smart Card. After I had made the payment and undergone the process of biometric identification, […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: Jehangir A. Khan, a man of varied careers from a journalist to a film actor to a bureaucrat, died here on Monday. He was one-and-a-half months shy of his 87th birthday. Mr Khan, who started of as a journalist, entered the film industry acting in several films before joining the civil service. […]
KARACHI, Sept 23: The Karachi Union of Journalists has urged the chairman of the 8th wage board, Justice Sakhi Hussain Bokhari, to initiate proceedings at the earliest and announce interim relief for employees. A resolution adopted at the first meeting of the newly-elected KUJ committee, chaired by its president G.M. Jamali, expressed satisfaction over formation […]
KARACHI: In art, contrary to the common perception, sometimes tangible things are harder to draw, paint or sculpt than intangible ones. The reason for this is that interpreting life from an experiential standpoint is a two-edged sword. You know, by virtue of knowing them through your senses, what you are trying to create and at […]
LAHORE: Condemning the suicide bombings at a Peshawar church on Sunday as inhuman and an affront to the values to uphold which Pakistan was established, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to share with the people its strategy to overcome the ongoing faith-based and militant-orchestrated attacks on citizens across […]
KARACHI: Senior journalist Ejaz Ghani has passed away at 75, his family said on Monday. It said that Mr Ghani breathed his last on Sunday morning. He was later buried at Mohammad Shah graveyard in North Karachi. Mr Ghani began his professional life in 1960s in Bangladesh where he worked for 1960s Daily Chronicle, Daily […]
ISLAMABAD: Before lifting the ban on YouTube in Pakistan, the government is considering placing an institutional mechanism in place to consult the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to determine if any contents on the Internet are blasphemous or pornographic. After placing such mechanism, the PTA will then be asked to block such material to enable […]
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