By: PEERZADA SALMAN KARACHI: There’s something weirdly attractive about art that has shades of glumness about it. It’s a force that eggs on artists to investigate, to probe, to decode. They do not propagate hopelessness; the idea is to explore those aspects of life that can make life look like an uneasy exercise. Irfan Hasan […]
KARACHI: Dressed smartly and presenting their ideas eloquently to the audience seated across them, students belonging to Lyari’s Youth Café had their seven short films screened at the Beach Luxury Hotel on Wednesday. Organised by the Karachi Youth Initiative, the short films and documentaries shot and edited by the teenagers were based on a variety […]
KARACHI: It is astounding how Asian artists have become increasingly extroverted about the socio-political milieu they find themselves inextricably attached to (read: entangled in). Their symbolism is becoming more and more unconcealed, which is a bit of an oxymoron. A fascinating three-person exhibition, let’s call it an international show, titled ‘Displacement Anxieties’ curated by distinguished […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) Chairman, Ismail Shah has informed the Supreme Court that 3G and 4G licenses will be auctioned by April 23. A three-member bench headed by Justice Jawaad Khawaja heard the 3G and 4G auction case on Thursday. During proceedings Justice Khawaja inquired about the auction in which only licensed companies would […]
KHAIRPUR: Two-day international conference on “Environmental issues of Sindh and its remedies” inaugurated at Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, on Wednesday. The moot is being organised by the Shah Abdul Latif University in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission, WWF Pakistan and Sindh Green Environmental Forum. Isra University Chancellor Prof Dr Asadullah Kazi presided over […]
Islamabad: Federal Secretary Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Dr. Nazir Saeed, has urged the national media to devote at least five per cent of their media space for the promotion of science In the country. He expressed these views while presiding over the inaugural ceremony of a daylong seminar on “Science Communication and journalism here […]
LAHORE: Literati and admirers of Munir Niazi observed his 86th birth anniversary at the Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture (Pilac) on Wednesday. A book titled ‘Munir Niazi Ki Batain, Yadain’, a compilation of articles along with photographs by Tanveer Zahoor, was also launched. It also contains interviews of the late poet and opinion […]
ISLAMABAD: A Senate Committee will today listen to the version of the government on various key matters related to the 3G and 4G auctions. The committee will hear about the “legal justification of constituting the auction committee that supersedes the powers/authority of PTA” (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) “in violation of the laws.” The forum on information […]
Karachi: Imdad Soomro, a reporter at The News, was robbed with his family at Jauhar Morr on Wednesday night. They had been travelling in their car when two motorcyclists stopped them and demanded mobile phones, cash and other valuables from them at gunpoint, before fleeing. The News
KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors Society (CPNE) Secretary General, Dr Jabbar Khattak on Wednesday said certain ‘despotic’ elements did not like the presence of an independent media in the country and were targeting media persons because they spread awareness among the masses. Addressing editors from Sindh at the CPNE Secretariat, he said the threat […]
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