• January 22, 2014
• Protest Letters by PPF

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression is concerned over physical assault on Palestinian cameraman of Al-Mahid TV, Amer Hijazi by Canadian Prime Minister Stephan Harper’s security guard in Bethlehem, a Palestinian city located in the central West Bank. Quoting the information from Palestinian Centre for […]

• January 22, 2014
• Arts and Entertainment

KARACHI: Screening of Students’ Short Movies & Documentaries at the Alliance Francaise, French cultural centre started here on Tuesday. All in all, six short films were screened as the audience, mainly students, filled the hall. The event was in collaboration with the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, where work of two […]

• January 22, 2014
• General News

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court upheld on Tuesday a death sentence awarded by a sessions court to an accused in a case pertaining to the murder of TV producer Afreen Baig. A sessions court had sentenced inJune 2009 to death Mohammad Bux, a driver of the deceased, after finding him guilty of killing Afreen Baig […]

• January 22, 2014
• Television

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has opened investigation against the former managing director of PTV, Mustafa Kamal Qazi, and asked for the record of his corruption from the authorities concerned. Sources privy to the matter reveal that the former PTV chief inflicted a loss of billions of rupees to the corporation, which had to […]

• January 22, 2014
• Arts and Entertainment

KARACHI: To artist Zehra Laila Javeri, weeds mean movement. It’s not a strange concept, for all kinds of growth are essentially an act of movement in different directions. The issue that artists find intriguing to come to terms with is the direction that the movement takes. The latest body of work by Ms Javeri, put […]

• January 22, 2014
• Arts and Entertainment

Lux unveiled the first ever celebrity calendar of Pakistan amidst some of the biggest celebrities of Pakistan at the Lahore Grande, with a lavish and star-studded launch. The calendar, which is the first ever celebrity calendar of Pakistan, was eagerly being awaited since a while now and when it was finally unveiled at the event, […]

• January 22, 2014
• Arts and Entertainment

The South Asian Writers and Artists Network (SAWAN) organised a special evening on January 18, 2014, to mark the fifty-ninth death anniversary of Saadat Hasan Manto, acclaimed as the subcontinent’s greatest short story writer. The event, held at the HRCP in Lahore, was marked by the launch of Abdal Ahmed Jafri’s newly published book “Saadat […]

• January 22, 2014
• Arts and Entertainment

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said culture was in danger and expeditious acts were needed to protect it. “The Sindh Festival will make us aware of our existence,’ he said as he appeared on television screens in an advertising campaign on Tuesday. Bilawal announced promulgating a cultural emergency to protect […]

• January 22, 2014
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan should immediately cease its policy of appeasing the Taliban and instead hold them accountable for killing Pakistanis. “Taliban attacks, amounting to war crimes, have increased in scope and magnitude even as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government has renewed offers of peace talks in the aftermath of atrocities,” said Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan director […]

• January 22, 2014
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

KARACHI: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has announced to observe token hunger strike tomorrow (Thursday, 23 January, 2014) throughout the country to protest against non-provision of protection to journalists and media workers. In a press release issued, PFUJ president Rana Azeem and Secretary General Amin Yousaf directed unions of all cities to establish hunger […]

• January 22, 2014
• General News

LAHORE: Renowned playwright Asghar Nadeem Syed was injured Tuesday when unknown motorcyclists opened fire on his vehicle in Lahore, DawnNews reported. According to sources, Syed was traveling in his car near Shaukat Khanum Hospital when unidentified assailants opened fire on him. Upon hearing the gunshots, he ducked, however, he was hit in the right arm […]