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Daily Archives: January 21, 2014

AIOU: ‘Varsity to have TV channel soon’

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Islamabad: The Allama Iqbal Open University will soon launch a TV channel and FM radio station to promote education across the country. Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Nazir Ahmed Sangi said this at the oath-taking ceremony of the newly elected office-bearers of the educational broadcasters Forum on Monday. He said that the University has already applied […]


Tackling climate change in Thar

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The livelihood of people in Thar is dependent on monsoon rainfall, but due to climate change, the monsoon pattern has changed. Usually crops are cultivated after the first spell and grow after two more spells of rainfall during the monsoon season, which starts from mid-June and lasts till mid-August. Thar receives annual precipitation of between […]


How to end vulgarity

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Sexy women frolicking in dazzling semi-nude outfits have taken over Pakistan’s television news shows and soap operas, in the fantasies of several famous clerics that were revealed recently. Shocking details of these women’s skimpy clothes, provocative gestures and seductive utterances were uncovered in a number of recent speeches and newspaper writings. Outraged by the description, […]


The media-wary chief

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IN recent days, the Twitter world didn’t just throw up the Tharoor-Tarar controversy. The Pakistani twitterati also discovered, to their excitement, an account run by Army Chief Raheel Sharif. Though the account appeared to have been active since December, the increased frequency of tweets in January drew the attention of many in the previous week […]


Journalists widely protest killings of colleagues

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KARACHI: Protests were staged on Monday in different parts of the country, including Quetta, Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, against the increasing attacks on journalists by Taliban. Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) has announced three-day mourning against the killing of a private TV workers and attack on the bureau chief of another private TV channel in […]


A long way to go

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By: More than two-thirds of women journalists in the world are subject to pressure, threats and bad behaviour around the world. You! takes a look… More than two-thirds of women journalists in the world are subject to pressure, threats and bad behaviour around the world. This was uncovered during a conference ‘Global Forum on Media […]


IFJ denounces media murders and calls on Pakistani government for action

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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued a letter to Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, calling for “serious and overdue action” to protect Pakistani journalists and bring attackers to justice following the shooting assassination of three media workers from Express News. The IFJ’s Pakistan affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) is conducting […]


Myanmar and art

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KARACHI: Not much about Myanmar is known to many of us except the political turmoil that it’s been going through for the past many decades. The political side to things eclipses, rather conceals, the art that comes out of the country by virtue of the cultural richness that it boasts of. It is in this […]