FOR the foreseeable future, the curtains have come down on Peshawar’s cinemas in the wake of two deadly attacks targeting movie theatres in the KP capital. While the banned TTP may have officially denied involvement in the attacks, it is highly likely individuals influenced by the militants’ ideology were involved in the incidents, zeroing in […]
Karachi: The All Hindu Rights Organisation held a seminar at Karachi Press Club on Sunday against the atrocities being meted out to the Hindu community in Sindh, particularly forced conversion after kidnapping. Speaking on the occasion, Manohar Lal, Jay Parkash, Qamar Bhatti, Riaz Chandio and others said religious extremism was on the rise in the […]
Islamabad: Jharoka art gallery is having an Exhibition of 20 latest works by Shakir Mughal. This is his first solo show of oil paintings in Islamabad. Shakir Mughal is a UK based Pakistani artist who is working under the guidance of International artists in UK and he says that his work is mainly inspired by […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Computer Bureau (PCB) is engaged in ensuring capacity building of trainers to further train employees of Federal government on e-office system to cater optimum results. The Master trainers of the Bureau are imparting training to them as part of government’s plan to deploy e-office system in all Federal ministries soon. Sources at PCB […]
Karachi: The media is a business that is often guided by money. But is journalism a business too? Or is it a profession with certain underlying responsibilities? Should a reporter always be polite? If so, would it not lead to some sort of an innocuous client-vendor relationship? Similarly, how far can a reporter go to […]
LANDI KOTAL: Teachers and students of Government Degree College, Landi Kotal, on Sunday organised a literary session in connection with the 20th death anniversary of Baba-i-Pashto ghazal Ameer Hamza Khan Shinwari. The session was also attended by poets from Nangrahar province of Afghanistan. Students of local educational institutions also attended the occasion. Poets read out […]
THATTA: What do you get when a 50-year-old political party claims to be the sole representative of a 5,000-year-old culture? The Sindh Festival’s closing ceremony — thinly veiled political propaganda hidden inside a poorly planned event. Under a scorching sun and almost unbearable heat, the closing ceremony of the Sindh Festival on Saturday was in […]
Karachi: Officials of the Kolkata and Karachi press clubs have demanded the governments of India and Pakistan to allow at least three correspondents with cross-border visas in their respective countries. In a joint statement issued on Sunday, the press clubs’ office-bearers said the governments of India and Pakistan currently allowed only one correspondent each and […]
LAHORE: Regional office of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) once again on Sunday warned all cable operators in the province to strictly follow its laws or face legal action. The fresh warning was part of a campaign launched against cable operators violating Pemra laws regarding relaying banned satellite and private movie channels, and […]
ISLAMABAD: The recent disasters were a warning from nature that there is an urgent need to adopt a mechanism to face the unpredictability of climate change. This was were general view of speakers at the launching ceremony of a book ‘Malevolent Floods of Pakistan 2010-2012’ organised by Sindh Graduate Association (SGA) on Sunday. The book’s […]
It is a fact that the media in Pakistan depicts the gender bias in our rigorously patriarchal society. The enormous influence the media has on constituting social change is also incontestable. However, it seems increasingly otiose to rely on the media to bring forth any change in this regard as long as Pakistan’s leading newspapers […]
LAHORE: The annual Faiz Aman Mela was held on Sunday at the Bagh-i-Jinnah Open Air Theatre to mark the 103th birthday of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The poetry session was chaired by Dr Khalid Javed Jan, famous for his poem Mein Baghi Hoon Artists from across the country, including Arif Lohar, Waris Baig, and Abrarul Haq […]
Islamabad: The death anniversary of a prominent poet Shabir Hassan Khan Josh Malih Abadi will be observed on February 22. A meeting of the Josh Adbi Foundation held here at the resident of grandson of Josh Malih Abadi, Farroukh Jamal. Dr Ghazanfar Mehdi, Chairman Josh Malih Adbi Foundation who chaired the meeting said that conferences […]
FRANCIS Bacon once wrote: “We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter, during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, […]
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