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Painting exhibition of historical buildings opens

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LAHORE: Painting exhibition depicting the importance of Mughal era’s historical buildings by A.Q. Arif kicked off at The Collectors Galleria here on Thursday. A large number of people including art lovers, renowned artists and art students thronged the gallery. As many as 26 painting were showcased in the exhibition wherein Arif has chosen architecture as […]


IVS students flaunt their handiwork from the ‘magical Artventure’

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KARACHI: Magic is taking something ordinary and creating something extraordinary with it. It is the stuff fairytales are made of — but who is to say fairytales cannot be designed in an art studio. When students of the Indus Valley School’s Foundation Programme started their course, they did not believe in magic. Little did they […]


Sindh in visual culture discussed

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KARACHI: French scholar Julien Levesque delivered a short lecture on the representation of Sindh in visual culture during the past four to five decades at the Alliance Francaise Karachi on Thursday evening. Mr Levesque said he’d be discussing the cultural identity marks – ajrak, Sindhi topi, Moenjodaro stupas – that had been associated with Sindhi […]


Call for legislation on ratified human rights conventions

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HYDERABAD: Experts and human rights activists lamented on Thursday that though Pakistan was signatory to a number of international conventions, successive governments hadn’t formulated any laws for ensuring basic human rights to people such as education, health and livelihood. They were speaking at the launch of a national mobilisation campaign for ‘International Covenant on Economic, […]


PTA directs mobile companies to discontinue immoral packages

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed mobile companies to discontinue night packages which were considered against the norms of social structure and moral values of the society. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Shaikh Aftab Ahmad told the National Assembly during question hour that a number of complaints had been received against these packages […]


Nadra develops electronic voting machine

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ISLAMABAD: In the wake of ongoing thumb print verification controversy, National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has taken proactive initiative by developing electronic voting machine (EVM) solution proposed to be placed on all polling stations across the country. The Nadra claims that the system aims at ensuring transparency and rigging-free elections because each voter will […]


Govt should probe matters relating to Pemra: POWA

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ISLAMABAD: The war of words and allegations through press releases continues between executives and officers of PEMRA. The Pemra Officers Welfare Association (POWA) has again issued a detailed response to the December 10 rejoinder of present management of PEMRA and has termed most of the assertions as baseless and contrary to the facts.The statement calls […]


Geo TV fined for airing illegal content

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KARACHI: In a notice served to FremantleMedia Limited — the rights’ owners of ‘Idol’ shows, including ‘Pakistan Idol’ — the music label Tips has accused the franchise of airing content without prior authorisation terming it a severe violation of Tips’ copyrights and is liable for strict legal action. The sound record label Tips has asked […]


Reviving PTV’s glory days

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WITH its 49th anniversary, the state-run Pakistan Television has entered its golden jubilee year. A journey that began nearly five decades ago is now reaching another milestone very fast. Since its inception, the people associated with it ensured the quality and production value of the programmes telecast by it, which lasted for a long span […]


PA adopts Right to Information bill

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LAHORE: The provincial assembly on Thursday passed “Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Bill,” along with four other bills, rejecting almost all changes suggested by the opposition. The Right to Information bill carried two amendments that differentiate it from the original act. Clause Five of the bill maintained: “Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, any […]


SC to probe exclusive footage of Full Court reference

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ISLAMABAD: Soon after taking oath of office, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the exclusive footage of the proceedings of the Full Court reference held in the honour of former CJP Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on the eve of his retirement and directed the apex court’s additional registrar […]


High court issues notice to censor board, media

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the Central Censor Board and Pakistan Electronic Media Association (PEMA) for December 16 on a petition by Pakistan Cinema Owners Association and distributors of films to become party in the case against exhibition of Indian movies. Barrister Ali Zafar appeared before the court on […]


YouTube refuses to remove blasphemous contents

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Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmed Thursday informed the House that Google did not accept the Ministry of Information Technology’s request to remove the blasphemous contents from the You-Tube. In a written reply in the National Assembly, Sheikh Aftab said that Ministry of Information Technology had imposed ban on You-Tube in September […]