LAHORE: After a crisis of almost four weeks during which the import of all foreign films in Pakistan, including Hollywood and Bollywood movies, had become a question mark, Pakistani film and cinema industry has once again come out victorious. An understanding reached between the Pakistan Film Producers Association and Pakistan Exhibitors Association finally led to […]
LAHORE: The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop held a press conference on Wednesday to announce the beginning of their flagship annual 3rd International Film Festival. The festival will showcase 64 films in categories ranging from feature film (fiction), feature documentary film, short film (fiction), short documentary film, animation and experimental/art film. Works of young directors from […]
BHIT SHAH: For most Karachi-based city slickers, a visit to Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s dargah in Bhit Shah, Matiari district, especially during the urs, serves as a crash course in how the Sufi saint holds such a central place in Sindh’s spiritual and cultural life and what this translates to socially. While verses from Shah’s […]
PAKISTAN’s telecommunications industry has helped to not only generate a handsome revenue but also provide relief to people by providing jobs. It has, however, suffered from poor law and order, security issue and lack of interest of foreign investment since the Telecommunications Ordinance in 1994. It led to the establishment of PTA, Frequency Allocation Board […]
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday stopped National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) from verifying NA 118 voters through thumb impressions. The court suspended the election tribunal’s order which had ordered the NADRA to verify the veracity of voters’ antecedents of the May 11 general elections in that constituency. The bench […]
KARACHI: Abdul Sattar Hakim hurriedly sorts out the stacks of the court summons, stuffs them in his bag and rushes out of the Sindh High Court building on a motorcycle. The 60-year-old court bailiff’s race is not against time, but against technology – he has to serve the notices to the litigants before an e-mail […]
The annual toll of journalists killed in connection with their work was again very high in 2013, although this year’s number, 71, was a slight fall (-20%) on last year’s, according to the latest round-up of freedom of information violations that Reporters Without Borders issues every year. There was also a big increase (+129%) in […]
ISLAMABAD: Veteran Sindhi nonagenarian progressive writer and intellectual Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo has been nominated for the highest literary award of the country for his contribution to literature. The announcement was made by a panel of judges at the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) on Wednesday. The panel of judges comprising noted writers Masood Ashar, Dr […]
The activists of the political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), manhandled Shams Keerio, Editor of a Sindhi-language newspaper “Daily Aaino” and the joint secretary of Karachi Press Club (KPC) on December 17, 2013 in the city Karachi, the capital of Sindh province. Keerio told Pakistan Press Foundation that the PTI workers were holding a protest demonstration […]
ISLAMABAD: Medialogic Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, the national TV ratings provider has announced a partnership with Kantar Media to enhance the TV audience measurement service in Pakistan. Medialogic will deploy Kantar Media’s Rapid Meter technology, phasing out the current DFM (Direct Frequency Measurement) technology supplied by GfK. First unveiled at television symposium in 2011, the Rapid […]
ISLAMABAD: Thanks to the rage of ANP’s Zahid Khan the opposition on Wednesday won the right that PTV would telecast its reply to a minister’s speech live – but only momentarily. The opposition’s forceful protest over the “discriminatory policy” of PTV to telecast live only the ministers’ speeches forced Senate Chairman Nayyar Hussain Bokhari to […]
PARIS: Media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Wednesday 71 journalists were killed in 2013, a slight fall from the previous year, but there was a surge in kidnappings. “Syria, Somalia and Pakistan retained their position among the world´s five deadliest countries for the media,” the Paris-based watchdog said in its annual round-up of […]
ISLAMABAD: Confusion in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (Pemra) persists as the authority continues to have two chairmen, adversely affecting administrative work of the institution. On December 15, the federal government, through the Establishment Division, had issued a notification removing Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed as Pemra chairman. He had been appointed by the previous PPP […]
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