LAHORE: A solo exhibition of paintings titled “Contexture of Time” by Andleeb Rana opened at the Coopera Art Gallery on Tuesday. Andaleeb is an MPhil student at the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) and practices studio art. The exhibition showcased 25 paintings done in digital and mix media. This series of paintings is themed […]
KARACHI: Patron-in-Chief, Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has emphasised on spreading message of love, peace and human fraternity to the nook and corner of the world besides truly following it in our country. “Let the world know about the saints and philosophers, we so fondly revere,” Bilawal stated this, in his message on 270th […]
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block all illegal and unregistered SIMs (subscriber identity module) of Afghan and Pakistani cellular phone companies within 15 days as these had been mostly used in acts of terrorism, kidnapping for ransom and extortion. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad […]
As if the deprived citizens of this country did not have enough on their plate, we have to worry about rogue television anchormen/women with axes to grind. Recently, Mubashir Lucman, the anchorman of a private news channel, submitted a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) contending that the screening and import of Indian movies […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Korea share warm and friendly diplomatic ties and Pakistan is an important country for the Republic of Korea and the Korean Government and the Embassy are trying to boost the cultural relations between the two countries. This year both the countries are celebrating the 30th anniversary of establishment of their diplomatic relations. […]
There have been innumerable articles and letters published in the past one year regarding the YouTube ban. Federal Minister for IT Pervez Rasheed apparently recently said that the government in principle has decided to unblock YouTube – to no effect though. According to the Google transparency report about 56 countries have localised versions of YouTube […]
ISLAMABAD: Private TV channels who were deprived of covering the proceedings of the Supreme Court’s full court reference have submitted their replies with the additional registrar of the apex court on the issue. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court reporters from different private TV channels submitted their replies before Additional Registrar Muhammad Ali who was appointed […]
LAST week the Indus Resource Centre (IRC) and the Sindh Education Foundation held a joint consultative roundtable — the second such event in a series — to study the impact of the Sindh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2013. The project funded by UKAID and DAI Europe seeks to mobilise schoolchildren […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid assured the journalists on Tuesday that the government was sincere in resolving their problems and would take all possible steps to facilitate them. “Soon after coming to power our government completed the process of formation of 8th Wage Board Award. Now I assure you that we […]
QUETTA: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Balochistan, has banned relay of programmes of popular Afghan television channels by cable operators, but Indian channels can still be watched in the province. Pemra’s Regional Director Jalal Khan told Dawn that Afghan TV channels RTA, ATN, Shamshad and Lemar had been shut “because of instructions from […]
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