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Daily Archives: September 25, 2013

Pakistan takes steps to protect itself from NSA-style cyber attacks

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KARACHI: In view of the recent wave of stealing of sensitive official data by US National Security Agency (NSA), the National Telecom & Information Technology Security Board (NTISB) has framed guidelines/ techniques for protecting government business from possible hacking and cyber attacks. “Recent wave of stealing the sensitive official data by US NSA has raised […]


Cinemas exempted from tax on governor’s orders, PA told

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Karachi: Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Mukesh Kumar Chawla told the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday that cinema houses in the province were exempted from entertainment tax only on the verbal instructions of the governor, saying that a formal notification to this effect had to be issued by the government after the house approved such […]


Erum Ashfaq’s works on display at Jharoka Art Gallery

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ISLAMABAD: Instinctive artist Erum Ashfaq has put up her 26 oil paintings that depict the country’s rich cultural heritage. The solo exhibition started at the Jharoka Art Gallery and was set against the backdrop of classical buildings holding an element of diversity and intensity with an effective play of light and darkness that imparted ecstatic […]


Women have to fight harder… – An interactive session with a Pakistani journalist in India

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Gender discrimination cuts across all political and cultural boundaries around the world, as we have seen and studied extensively in India. Knowing this, it was still tremendously surprising to learn how similar the situation is in Pakistan, as a recent talk in Delhi by Kiran Nazish, an eminent young journalist from Pakistan made clear. Kiran […]


History of Sufism in Sindh discussed

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KARACHI: An enlightening lecture on ‘Sufism in Sindh’ was delivered by eminent scholar Prof Dr Michel Boivin at the Mohatta Palace Museum on Tuesday evening. The talk was organised by the Endowment Fund Trust and the Mohatta Palace Museum. Dr Boivin stated at the outset that he was a historian by training. His talk was […]


Nadra’s Smart Card & kidney transplant

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THE Nadra website says that the new Family Registration Certificate (FRC) will be issued the same day. My daughter went with my son to the Nadra Registration Centre, Executive SRHQ, at Awami Markaz, Karachi, to get new FRC. On reaching the counter she was told that the person who deals with it had not come […]


Cellphone firms told to pay compensation

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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the cellphone companies to compensate victims of terrorist activities in which their unregistered SIM cards were used. As ruled by the court, the compensation should be paid under qisas (retribution) and diyat (blood money) laws. The directions were issued by a bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad […]


Closure of radio channels in FATA

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PESHAWAR: I would like to bring to the attention of the Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Engineer Shaukatullah Khan, to a serious issue of public concern. Radio Khyber, Radio Razmak and Radio Miranshah which operated in the most deprived region of Pakistan, the tribal areas, were shut down in May this year. Since then, the people […]