KARACHI: Memory keeps tradition alive. It is the process of forgetting, conscious or unwitting, that gradually hollows out tradition and makes history a blurred reality. Artists know the significance of memory. That is why the perceptive among them attach great importance to observation and experience — the former provides a link to tradition and the […]
The PTA has provided a number — 668 — to get information about the SIM issued on a particular CNIC. I sent my CNIC number to 668 on three different dates in 2012 and 2013. The first message I received from 668 was on Sept 27, 2012. The message stated that a total of eight […]
ISLAMABAD: Like on all other major events in Pakistan, mobile services are likely to be suspended on the 12th of Rabiul Awal in Karachi and other cities and towns across the country, media quoting sources reported on Thursday. Daily Times
LAHORE: Cinema Management Association (CMA) has announced a movement against a ban on Bollywood movies in the country. Addressing a press conference at a local cinema, CMA Chairman Qaiser Sanaullah Khan demanded the government remove all ambiguities in import policy and pass an ordinance in this regard.He said that if proper measures were not taken, […]
KARACHI: Social networking websites are now widely used by youngsters. According to a survey conducted by a youth centre, youngsters spend more than two hours every day visiting various social networking websites. There are many disadvantages of using them. Teenagers often only get hooked to social networking websites as these help them provide the latest […]
ISLAMABAD: It was blasphemous content that had pushed the authorities into banning video-sharing website YouTube in the country 16 months ago and in all that time the ground situation hasn’t changed a bit. “The legal environment is not conducive for adopting a localised version of YouTube and unless and until a localised domain is obtained, […]
Workers and ‘new media’Internet technologies, the possibility of accessing global channels through various platforms, and the mushroom growth of domestic TV channels have indeed mystified not merely our middle classes, but even our intelligentsia is often busy showering praise on ‘new media’ and its empowering potential. From the viewpoint of the working classes, the exact […]
KARACHI: The critically acclaimed ‘Khamosh Pani’ was the journey of Saleem Khan that starts as a teenager who falls in love with a schoolgirl named Zubeida and ends as a religious extremist. The real life journey of Aamir Aali Malik, the actor who played Saleem, has not turned out to be any different: he ended […]
LAHORE: Tired of listening to that monotonous music when you dial into a customer service helpline? Fear not, rescue is here! Meet Omar Khan and Rizwan Chand – two young Pakistanis, founders of the startup Appography, aspiring to revolutionise the caller experience for customer service helplines. They have developed a smartphone app, Vivid, that aims […]
PESHAWAR: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Thursday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to produce all documents and details provided to the Lahore High Court in a writ petition challenging the ban imposed on social media website YouTube by the government since 2012. Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk and Justice Yahya Afridi […]
ISLAMABAD: On the Jang Group’s petition, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi on Thursday gave last chance to a private channel and its anchor for submission of reply till February 6. The Jang Group counsel informed the court that despite passage of two months, the private channel and its anchor […]
” 
” 
” 
” 
