KARACHI: Concerns on national as well as international levels have been raised about the damages that the world heritage site of Moen Jo Daro may have suffered because of the opening ceremony of the Sindh Festival 2014. None of the officials from the Sindh government, however, appeared in court on Wednesday to quash these concerns. […]
LAHORE: The Lahore Literary Festival, opening on Friday, will be hosting more than 60 sessions over three days. The organisers of the festival had initially announced that some sessions would be ticketed. The LLF Advisory Committee for this year then said that all sessions would be open to the public. “Initially we had thought that […]
KARACHI: Jigar Muradabadi was not only a poet of love and mysticism but he also portrayed the political situation in his ghazals and nazams as one penned by him in Bombay in 1946. This was stated by eminent literary critics in a talk about the poetry of Jigar Muradabadi — one of the most influential […]
LAHORE: Abdullah Qureshi completed his undergraduate degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London in 2010 and then moved on to do his Masters at the same institute in 2011. The show will feature 14 pieces of his work. Qureshi’s work is not about a specific narrative or a story. Rather, he believes in […]
LAHORE: An exhibition of paintings, calligraphy and fresco works of the National College of Arts’ students kicked off at Zahoorul Akhlaq Art Gallery of the college here Wednesday. College Principal Dr Murtaza Jafri inaugurated the exhibition which displayed the annual project works of the students of the departments of Calligraphy and Fresco paintings. On the […]
Islamabad: State Minister for Information Technology Anusha Rahman on Wednesday stressed the need for early completion of Information Memorandum (IM) draft so that auction process of next generation spectrum for the cellular services could be archived as per already given timelines. Value partner consultants, hired by PTA for spectrum auction called in the state minister […]
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent watchdog body, condemned Monday’s attacks on two media houses in Karachi – Nawa-i-Waqt media group and Aaj TV – and called on the authorities concerned to bring the perpetrators to justice. “We condemn these latest attacks in Karachi and call on the government to ensure safety […]
A parliamentary panel on Wednesday expressed displeasure over one and three years plans proposed by Pakistan Television Network (PTV), suggesting that recommendations of all divisions/channels of PTV should be made part of the proposals for formulation of future plans. The sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting directed that all the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan does not have an official computer emergency readiness team (CERT) to combat cyber threats and vulnerabilities and this gap is filled by semi-official and privately-run initiatives. One such effort is a CERT team called PISA-CERT, which successfully thwarted a mock cyber attack on Wednesday at the Pakistan Research Centre for Cyber Security (PRCCS) […]
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) urged the government on Wednesday to promulgate an ordinance to restrict the print and electronic media from publishing or broadcasting any statement of the Taliban. The MQM coordination committee appealed to the government to provide full protection to all newspaper and electronic media offices so that journalists could continue […]
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday visited the Recorder House to express his solidarity with the management and employees of Aaj News and Business Recorder. The CM expressed sympathies for the two injured employees of the Recorder House. He said he had taken a serious notice of a grenade attack on […]
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