LAHORE: Renowned Indian film, television and theatre actor Naseeruddin Shah has stressed the need to produce films highlighting the issues of common man in Pakistan. The versatile actor said this while talking to the media persons at the Wagah border on Sunday. Mr Shah has come to Lahore along with his theater team for a […]
ISLAMABAD: A Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probe has proved the mega scam “Super Baboo set to make Rs4 million per month” reported by The News on September 30, 2013 right, the FIA’s investigation report available with The News shows. Sources informed The News that action against Chairman Pemra Chaudhry Rasheed, who it has now been […]
PESHAWAR: Participants of a consultative meeting of media group on the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2013, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has appreciated the passage of the law and has urged the provincial government for launching media campaign to create awareness among people at grass roots level. The media group is constituted by the Development, Environment, Legal […]
There is a requirement to form an independent media policy after essential input from all political parties, intelligentsia and other stakeholders The media, as a significant instrument of national power, may have emerged in the late 20th century but the relevance of media is by no means a new phenomenon. The media has always been […]
ISLAMABAD: The tele-density in cellular phone sector has hit an all-time high of 72.28 per cent as number of subscribers in the country, including Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Northern Areas, touched 129.7 million by September this year. The cellular tele-density was 3.29pc about 10 years ago, but proactive policies of successive governments helped the […]
KARACHI: The Sindh government is considering a proposal to use smartphones for redress of public grievances against police and other departments, it emerged on Sunday. Officials considered a proposal titled ‘Citizen feedback and community outreach through mobile phones’, envisaging interaction between the people and the government which, if implemented, could prove a ‘cheaper and cost-effective […]
By: Waqas Naeem ISLAMABAD: In 2008, Islam Deen saw the harmony he had cherished in his neighbourhood collapse like the roof of a mud hut falling down in torrential rain. The catastrophe materialised unexpectedly and there was nothing he could do back then. That year, when sectarian conflict in Deen’s native Dera Ismail Khan escalated, […]
YouTube has been blocked in Pakistan since September 27, 2012. People are now frustrated and most have tried to find proxy servers to access the site. The solution to this is to work with YouTube and block access to certain material within the region only. The second option is to not block the entire website […]
AS militant groups increasingly use social networking platforms to reach out to bigger audiences and shape media coverage of their actions, their drive to create sympathisers remains as relevant to them as their traditional objective to kill or destroy the enemy. Hardly media shy, the late Pakistan Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud had met journalists in […]
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