KARACHI: The Sindh Cultural Festival kicked off in Karachi on Sunday with great zeal and enthusiasm, and Pakistan-People’s Party Patron-in-Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on the occasion saying the Basant festival would be celebrated in Sindh this season. Inaugurating the festival at the Mohatta Palace, Bilawal said he was a proud son of Sindh – the […]
The Nadra chairman has announced production of an electronic machine for voting in the elections. In a country that is 30 percent literate, the introduction of such machines will complicate matters and generate further controversies. Furthermore, will the Election Commission of Pakistan be able to provide uninterrupted power supply to polling stations when our electricity […]
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will not allow import of new phones including cellular phones without proper International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEIs). Sources told Business Recorder here on Sunday that the FBR has issued instructions to the Collectors of Customs Model Customs Collectorates regarding Suo moto case No 16 of 2011 (regarding Law […]
ISLAMABAD: In order to complete the process of verifying thumb impressions of voters in a transparent manner, the government has decided to place the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) under the administrative control of the Election Commission of Pakistan for three months. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said at a press conference on […]
Drama may open a personal gate to forbidden thought. Subjects like extra-marital relationships, corrupt politicians, consensual sex and non-consensual rape, religious taboos and cross-generational romance have appeared in these television dramas and have raised hot debates What is the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? Do you not grab the […]
THESE days there is much hue and cry against the airing of Turkish dramas on a private TV channel. Actors from across the country to people in parliament were seen and heard speaking against the foreign content. All were advocating that there must be a code of conduct imposed by Pemra against airing foreign content […]
KARACHI: Climate change adaptation needs attitudinal change at macro level and it is this uncertainty that makes climate change threatening, while its impact on the South Asian region will be acute. This was stated by the environmentalists at an inaugural session of a-two-day Mid-Term Review Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation, Water and Food Security in […]
Since the retirement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the media campaign against him has become no-holds-barred. His sworn critics were the most sought after guests in talk shows supposed to sum up his tenure and, in special interviews, his vilest detractors were given a free hand to paint his legacy in morbid colours. With […]
OUR media, both electronic and print, acquired the much-desired freedom during the last decade, and its absorption hiccups are but natural. This was also amply manifested in the recent extensive reporting about the change of leadership in the armed forces. Unfortunately, a considerable part of that was speculative, to put it mildly, through the so-called […]
ISLAMABAD: A special meeting of the office-bearers and members of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Islamabad chapter was held on Saturday to re-activate the chapter. The move to call the meeting was initiated by senior vice-president of the chapter and senior editor of Daily Express Ayaz Khan. The meeting discussed all the challenges faced […]
LAHORE: In the recent past, debates on the issue of clash of institutions, especially judiciary and the legislature, were in the full glare of publicity; however, the question of clash between judiciary and media remained under the cover, mainly that such an issue might impede in dispensation of justice. Due to media interference and commentary […]
ISLAMABAD: Implementing the Supreme Court’s historic judgement in the Khawaja Asif case to review irregular and illegal appointments, President Mamnoon Hussain on Sunday removed the illegally appointed Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Chairman Chaudhry Rashid. The office of the Pemra chairman fell vacant in the early years of the previous Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) […]
IN the wake of sufferings caused by natural and man-made disasters in the last couple of decades, a new realisation is taking place in the contemporary world. There prevails a general comprehension to minimise the losses both to life and property to a maximum possible level through effective communication, utilising technology-based systems. Social scientists and […]
KARACHI: Threats issued by banned outfit did not affect the results of May 11, 2013 general elections and media played a positive role in covering the polls, said speakers at a moot. They said at a roundtable discussion on `politics of conflict` organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation here the other day that before May […]
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