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Fine Arts Pakistan gallery launches website

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KARACHI: Fine Arts Pakistan (FAP) gallery has launched its website for art lovers who can now visit and buy different paintings online. The FAP has provided international recognition to local artists through their website www.fineartpakistan.com integrated with Facebook. Asma Ahmed, the curator of the gallery, explained that this was a unique and first of its […]


Smartphones evolutionary in country during last year

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ISLAMABAD: The just concluded 2013 has witnessed promotion of smartphones and tablets in the country as the year brought a lot of new things on the table in the case of smartphones, but as a whole it has been evolutionary. Consumers in Pakistan are really starting to embrace smartphones and tablets and this trend also […]


Film effective medium of communication: CM

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LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif believes that film is an effective medium of communication especially when it comes to informing the new generation about cultural, national and historic traditions. Talking to a representative delegation of Pakistan Exhibitors and Film Producers Association which called on him here on Sunday, the chief minister said that films […]


Plots cannot divide journalists: PFUJ chief

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SUKKUR: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) president Afzal Butt has said that no attempt can divide journalists who are united on one platform. Addressing a journalists’ convention’ at the Sukkur Press Club on Sunday, he said journalists had rendered sacrifices during the dictatorial rule and struggled for freedom of expression. He assured the journalists […]


Film festival hopes to put Sindh ‘on the map’

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KARACHI: The organisers of the Sindh International Film Festival hope to bring a boost to the economy and the film industry and give Pakistan a new name. “This film festival is going to put us [Sindh] on the map,” said project manager Fakhr-e-Alam, who is also the Sindh Censor Board chairperson. “Our film industry has […]


Journalists unhappy with inquiry committee formed to probe murder

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SUKKUR: The journalist fraternity is unhappy with the inquiry committee formed to probe the murder of senior journalist, Shan Dahar, and want competent officials instead. A large group of journalists held a gathering in Jinnah Bagh, outside Larkana Press Club, on Sunday. They demanded, once again, the arrest of the men behind the killing and […]


Seminary fumes over publicising Sami’s fatwa in local media

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PESHAWAR: In yet another major set back to the polio programme, the Fata Secretariat lands in trouble for publicising fatwa (religious decree) of Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, in the local media through paid advertisements without the permission and knowledge of its administrator Maulana Samiul Haq. Maulana Yusuf Shah, a spokesman of Maulana Samiul Haq, […]