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Daily Archives: January 3, 2014

Non-Muslim residents of Lyari afraid of returning home

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KARACHI: “There were five of them,” she said while holding her young child with one arm and hiding her face with the other. That’s how the young mother of three, and a victim of gang-rape, started narrating her ordeal at a press conference called at the Karachi Press Club by the Human Rights Commission of […]


Consumer survey website launched

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KARACHI: The IBA-SBP Consumer Confidence Survey website was officially launched on Thursday. State Bank of Pakistan Governor Yaseen Anwar and Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Dean and Director Dr Ishrat Husain, also a former SBP governor, conducted the launch. They hoped that the survey would help improve economic policies. “The data on expectations regarding inflation, […]


Pemra Bans Shia TV Channels In Gilgit-Baltistan

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Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has banned Shia TV channels’ broadcast in Shia majority Gilgit-Baltistan province that evoked stiff protest. Gilgit-Baltistan chapter of the PEMRA issued a notification for the cabal operators directing them to ban Shia TV channels such as Hadi TV, Hidayat TV and Karbala Arabic channel. Surprisingly, news channel Such TV […]


The Epic Journey’ not everyone’s cup of tea

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KARACHI: Full Circle Gallery is hosting a solo exhibition ‘The Epic Journey’ by emerging young artist Shazly Khan featuring life engagements and circles of ordinary women. At least 32 brightly coloured paintings are on display for art connoisseurs and critics alike. According to the artist’s statement her work is an “Epic of a Woman”. As […]


From the firmament

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KARACHI: It is common knowledge that the phrase ‘the sky’s the limit’ hints at the infinite possibilities that moving vertically entails. But there’s more to it. Artists and writers have always been fascinated by the concept of time and space. Let’s say, if everything earthly or worldly can be tried to make sense of within […]


Reopening of YouTube possible after auction of 3G spectrum

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ISLAMABAD: The re-opening of social website “YouTube” is not possible before the auction of spectrum for next generation mobile services in Pakistan, which is expected in the first week of March 2014, it is learnt. Official sources revealed to Business Recorder that the government had expedited efforts to re-open Youtube as soon as possible, however […]


Wali Babar case: Govt appoints defence lawyer

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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has ordered appointment of a counsel, at state expense, for the accused persons in Geo TV reporter Wali Babar’s murder case. The defence lawyer of the accused Suleman Mujahid Baloch, MNA of Mutihida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has absented himself from the proceedings continuously. According to Anti Terrorism […]


Police, hospital to separately probe journalist’s death

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SUKKUR: Larkana Police DIG and the Chandka Medical College Hospital’s (CMCH) medical superintendent have constituted separate committees to investigate the murder of journalist Shan Dahar. Dahar was shot dead near Badah Press Club on New Year’s Eve. He had been standing at a medical store near the press club when the incident occurred. He was […]


Protests held against murder of journalist

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KARACHI: Two parallel protests were arranged at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday against the murder of a journalist based in Larkana. The first protest was organised by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), followed by another held by the Karachi Union of Journalists. Shan Dahr, 45, bureau chief of Ab Tak television channel […]


Demos held against journalist’s murder

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LARKANA: Protest demonstrations were held by journalists and others here and in several other cities of the province condemning the murder of journalist Shan Dahar and demanding of the government to arrest his murderers immediately. They warned the government that if the killers were not arrested then they would hold demonstrations across the country.Meanwhile, the […]