Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) received four bids for spectrum auction for the next generation of mobile services by the 14th April deadline. The contenders include China Mobile, PTCL (Ufone), Mobilink and Telenor. Turkcell did not participate reportedly because it did not find the prospects attractive enough as a new entrant in the Pakistani market with […]
ISLAMABAD: Canada stepped in this week to tell the Nawaz Sharif government that it should take “swift” and “unerring” steps to ensure that terrorists cease attacks on Pakistan’s religious and ethnic communities. It is no secret that of late every province in the country has seen a rise in these unjustified attacks on Pakistani citizens […]
KARACHI: Serajus Salikin, a 22-year-old student of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (Szabist), is all set for his debut on the silver screen, as his documentary will be screened at the upcoming Cannes International Film Festival. The 67th Cannes festival will open on 14th May. Salikin’s documentary, Masters of the Sky, […]
Last week, renowned artist Ajmal Husain, the son of a former editor of Dawn Altaf Husain, passed away in Karachi. He started his career as Dawn’s political cartoonist. He was the editor of The Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan in the 1950s. He also held the post of editor Sunday Magazine Dawn for a while. As […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday sought comments from the information technology secretary and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman on a petition challenging a blanket ban on YouTube, a video-sharing website. A division bench headed by Justice Irfan Saadat Khan was seized with the hearing of the petition jointly filed by as many […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage on Wednesday decided to form a task force, comprising legal experts to review 64 laws related to the media in the country. With reference to the recommendations by the Media Commission, appointed by the Supreme Court in 2013, the Standing Committee agreed to […]
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has sacked chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Chaudhry Rasheed, Geo News reported. According to sources in the President House, President Mamnoon removed Chaudhry Rasheed as per the procedure chalked out by the Islamabad High Court (IHC). The News
ISLAMABAD: Taking notice of the contradictory media reports on the auction of 3G and 4G spectrum, the Supreme Court on Wednesday observed it expected the media would not carry reports that might harm the auction process. A three-judge bench of apex court – headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja – was hearing a petition seeking […]
ISLAMABAD: The bids of four mobile operators of Pakistan qualified for the auction of 3G and 4G licenses, Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, Ismail Shah, told Dawn on Thursday. Shah said that the four companies, namely Mobilink, Telenor, Ufone and Zong, were not defaulters of the government and the legal aspects of their bids had […]
KARACHI: PPP’s central leader Owais Muzaffar has announced that plots will be given to the heirs of journalists who were killed in the line of duty in Sindh. He was speaking at a ceremony to distribute health insurance cards among members of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) at a hotel on Tuesday night. The […]
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