KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Patron-In-Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has condemned death threats to renowned journalist and South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) Secretary General Imtiaz Alam and has asked the federal government to arrange adequate security arrangements for him. In a statement issued on Sunday, Bilawal said that death threats to a patriotic and […]
THIS is apropos the report ‘No way to block Internet content’ (March 25). I agree with the statement. As in the case of YouTube, there are many proxy websites or VPN software which provide access to all the blocked content on the Internet. Why is the government wasting its energy on such an unpreventable issue? […]
PESHAWAR: The banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has created its own website for the purpose of streaming videos and publishing articles, interviews, statements etc. According to media reports, a statement released by the information and publication wing of the TTP said that ‘Umar Media’ has sponsored the website. In August 2008, the TTP was declared […]
LAHORE: “The kinds of threats journalists face today cannot be fought by individuals…we have to fight them together. And yet, when there is an attack on one media house, other media houses remain silent. It is not only the government’s responsibility to provide security to journalists, the media must unite on this front as well,” […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Tribunal which had been set up under the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act (Pepa) 1997 to hear complaints about pollution has not been working for around 20 months, it emerged on Sunday. The tribunal has a chairman and two members but seats of the members have been vacant since long mainly because […]
FAR too much evidence of climate change and global warming has by now stacked up to allow the naysayers to keep arguing. Mankind and its activities are adversely affecting the planet, and a process of the wipe-out of natural and renewable resources is under way. Many of the consequences of humanity’s polluting activities can no […]
The house of Jamshed Baghwan, Bureau Chief of “Express News” attacked once again in the early morning of April 6, 2014 at around 6:25am in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province of Pakistan. On March 19, an improvised explosive device (IED) with two kilograms of explosives was found in front of his house which was […]
Karachi: The Grandeur Art Gallery is currently hosting a collection of paintings by the under-17 children of the Special Children’s Educational Institute (SCEI). The exhibition is timed to coincide with the World Autism Day which fell on April 1. It is scheduled to end today. It is remarkable indeed that even though autism is a […]
The two arrested high-profile executives of an international IT giant would be spending the next 3 to 4 days in Central Adiala Jail Rawalpindi after they were given in judicial remand. The two are accused in a case of tax evasion detected by Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue (IR) Islamabad. Sources told […]
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