KARACHI: Speakers at the seventh death anniversary of poet and journalist Anwer Pirzado on Tuesday discussed his multifaceted personality and recalled how he depicted a story which haphazardly began in the middle and ended with `a complete sense of incompletion`. `He was a lover…of Sindh, the Indus and (Shah Abdul Latif) Bhital. He was a […]
The biggest information security event of Pakistan, “Cyber Secure Pakistan-2014” inaugural session to be held on January 9 at Marriott International Hotel, Islamabad. Cyber Secure Pakistan is a joint event by Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA) and UltraSpectra. PISA has been working for the last many years to highlight this much-needed topic of Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration […]
Commissioner Karachi Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui ordered on Tuesday that the mobile phone SIMs activated after May 30 last year should be re-verified within 30 days through the biometric system. He issued this directive while chairing a meeting with the Additional Inspector General, Deputy Inspector General (CID), Special Secretary Home, Director Inspector General (Admin), Karachi, SSP […]
Studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore and the SLADE School of Fine Art in London, now living in Australia, artist Nazia Ejaz has shown her work locally and internationally. Her work explores her connection with Pakistan as she looks to establish a relationship with a new landscape. She exhibited her paintings in […]
Many people make a living through blogging. In recent times, blogging has attracted a lot of attention given the rise of the social media and also when it is becoming more and more difficult for unbiased information to be presented to the audience at large with censorship. Simply put, a blog is a sort of […]
THINK politicking, Pakistan-style, and most people would think: loud — and long drawn-out. It’s traditionally been about people travelling long distances, a canopied platform faced with serried ranks of chairs, blood-stirring speeches and thundering denunciations. Few would have thought that a time might come when a politician desirous of speaking up might choose to not […]
Sir: This refers to the news item, ‘Experts for revival of climate change ministry’, published in your esteemed and popular paper (Daily Times, January 7, 2014). Besides the use of an enormous amount of coal, fast increasing traffic density is the other substantial contributing factor to air pollution and the resulting increase in fog duration/intensity […]
LAHORE: The Child Rights Movement (CRM) Punjab, along with numbers of different civil society organisations staged a protest demonstration outside Lahore Press Club on Tuesday and demanded ban on child domestic labour in the city as well as across the province. The protesters were carrying banners and placards inscribed with different slogans against killings of […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Sub-Committee on Information and Broadcasting, taking strict notice of telecast of immoral content on private television channels, has directed Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to play its role in this regard. Pemra holds the stance that when it takes action against the channels on complaints by the viewers, they get […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression is concerned over attack on Argentinian press team by the supporters of an official at Brazilian airport. Quoting the information from Foro de Periodismo Argentino (FOPEA), PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to the President of […]
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