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Daily Archives: January 18, 2014

Pak journalist maligned in mysterious death of Tharoor’s wife

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ISLAMABAD: Wife of an Indian minister died mysteriously in her hotel room in Delhi on Friday night after she accused a Pakistani journalist of having an affair with her husband, Shashi Tharoor, a well-known UN figure who returned to India and became a minister. Mrs Sunanda Tharoor in her messages on Twitter had accused the […]


Cop tortures journalist inside KP Assembly

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PESHAWAR: A policeman on Friday beat Khyber Union of Journalists Senior Vice President Mohammad Naeem black and blue inside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly building here using butt of official rifle. Mr Naeem was later shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital, where doctors said the journalist had a fracture of shoulder and breathing problems mainly due […]


Citizens express solidarity with Express

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KARACHI: Phones kept ringing in the Express office as citizens called in to denounce the attack on Express News DSNG and the murder of its three workers. Among the callers from various localities of Karachi Faraz from Nazimabad said Taliban want to capture Karachi and they have started harassing people from all walks of life, […]


Music when soft voices die

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I don’t claim I was Musadiq Sanwal’s friend. I made his acquaintance a few years ago. I had heard colleagues at the Dawn office rave about how hard he had worked to set up Dawn.com. He, at the time, had been editor of the website for more than a year. I don’t even remember when […]


Geo’s exciting family show ‘Inaam Ghar’ kicks off tonight

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KARACHI: Viewers don’t have to wait any longer as electronic media’s history is going to be rewritten when Geo Television will telecast the biggest entertainment show in Pakistan’s history tonight at 7.30 pm. Internationally renowned broadcaster, Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain will host the show titled ‘Inaam Ghar’. Like its name depicts, valuable prizes will be […]


Senate body on human rights for unblocking ‘YouTube’

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Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Friday recommended unblocking of ‘YouTube’, a social website blocked since a blasphemous movie “Innocence of Muslims” was uploaded on the website. The committee was of the view that political decision should be taken to unblock the YouTube. Blasphemous material is still present on the social website, proving that […]


Media under attack: Journalists to stage protests across country

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KARACHI: The journalists’ community denounced the killing of Express News staffers and called for countrywide protests against the deadly attack. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) said in a statement that journalists stood united throughout the country and would not be ‘bogged down by such cowardly acts’. PFUJ President Rana Azeem announced that protest […]


3 staffers killed in attack on Express

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KARACHI: Gunmen riding on motorcycles shot dead three Express News workers on Friday after ambushing a stationary DSNG van in a busy neighbourhood of Karachi. This was the third and most lethal strike on Express Media Group and its staff in the space of five months. In two previous attacks, the main offices of Express […]


Editor Dawn.com Musadiq Sanwal passes away

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KARACHI: Musadiq Sanwal, the editor of Dawn.com, passed away on Friday after battling with lung cancer for more than a year. Born in 1962, Sanwal will be remembered for his dedication to journalism, his closeness to his colleagues and love for the arts, most importantly music which he learnt in his younger years and performed […]


Pakistan plans 3G licence auction by March

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KARACHI: Pakistan is planning to hold its long-delayed auction of 3G telecommunications licences by March, hoping to raise $2 billion with the sale, the government said Friday. A statement said the decision was taken at a meeting of the Spectrum Auction License Committee, chaired by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in Islamabad. “Pakistan expects to earn […]


Islamabad police to open accounts on social media

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ISLAMABAD: The 21st century is known as an age of technology and one of the most important types of new technology is the social media. Recognising its importance, the Islamabad police have decided to use social media as a communication tool for disseminating the information to public and getting recommendations from them to further improve […]


Directors asked to seek advice from information secretary

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ISLAMABAD: The directors of state-run TV have been directed to seek orders, advice from the Secretary Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage until the appointment of a regular Managing Director. The post of MD stands vacant in pursuance of the judgment of the Islamabad High Court and a notification dated January 13. It was […]