LAHORE: Zohra Yusuf was re-elected chairperson and Kamran Arif advocate co-chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) here on Sunday. They were re-elected for 2014-16 in the election held in the commission’s annual general meeting. The vice-chairpersons elected are: Tahir Husain Khan advocate (Balochistan), Sher Mohammad Khan advocate (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Nazish Ataullah (Punjab) […]
Gwadar, on Thursday, became the unlikely launching pad for some glad tidings for the nation. At one level, we had a visual message. There they were, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Chief of the Army Staff Raheel Sharif sitting, metaphorically, on the same table. And this civil-military camaraderie, coming in the wake of some […]
SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid has said that the 3G and 4G spectrum technology has paved the way for information technology revolution in Pakistan and is opening up new vistas of technology upgradation for the countrymen. “Pakistan has also earned the trust of IT world after entering into the 3G and […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to curtail the operations of Afghan cellular phones in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of security issues. Informed sources told Dawn that more than 40,000 SIMs (subscriber identification module) of Afghan mobile telephone companies were operating inside Pakistani territory […]
THIS refers to the news item ‘Four mobile operators qualify for 3G, 4G auction’ (April 17). Why is there no bidder for the expired licence of Instaphone? Telecommunication companies do not want to invest a single penny in Pakistan from their overseas wealth; that too earned from Pakistan. Why was the procedure of auction designed […]
ISLAMABAD: Even though it was scheduled at one o clock on a Sunday afternoon, the proverbial lunch hour, the large hall in which the Kargil discussion took place was jam packed. Journalists, diplomats, retired ambassadors, young and old – it seemed as if everyone wanted to hear about Kargil, the Indo-Pak conflict that took place […]
PAKPATTAN: Punjab Governor Ch Muhammad Sarwar has said that the government is proud of the Pakistan Army. He added that the government has made a strategy to end power shutdowns in the next three years.Talking to newsmen at the Shrine of Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Masood Ganj Shakar on Sunday, the governor said all institutions, including […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for State for Information Technology and Telecommunications, Anusha Rehman on Sunday said successful auction of 3-G and 4-G spectrum licenses will usher an era of prosperity and development in the country adding that it will provide dividends to the people from all walks of life. Talking to NNI, she hailed that she had […]
ISLAMABAD: Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan of the Islamabad High Court will take up on Monday a petition filed by Chaudhry Rasheed who has challenged his removal as chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). Chaudhry Rashid was appointed Pemra chairman on Jan 26 last year by the PPP government and he was dismissed […]
My father, Mansoor Kaiser, was a journalist and I was never particularly great at anything except maybe cricket. I had a general knack for putting words together in an order that made just enough sense, and felt pride in my father’s hard-truth writings wrapped in black silk satire. I cared about facts and analysis, and […]
Apropos ‘Imran defends ISI, criticises role of media’ carried by Business Recorder on Saturday, the PTI chief seems to have stepped up pressure on the TV channel. On Friday, for example, he demanded that that TV channel should apologise to the Pakistani nation for its “baseless” allegations and “media vilification” of the Pakistan Army and […]
“WE cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,” Albert Einstein had argued. The ruckus kicked up by indignant patriots after the assassination attempt on Hamid Mir proves just that. Outdated notions of national security and national interest and an unflinching commitment to entrench them oppressively are alive and […]
EVENTS over the past two weeks have revealed the degree to which the process of democratisation in Pakistan remains infantile. The cautious optimism, induced by a long-awaited transition from one government to another, masks the degree to which the Pakistani state continues to be seen as distinct from the government manning its various offices. If […]
LAHORE: Lahore Press Club President Arshad Ansari has announced convening a grand convention of all press clubs of the country in Lahore on May 1 in support of the freedom of expression. Addressing the participants of a token hunger strike camp, organised in front of the LPC on Sunday to condemn murder attempt on Hamid […]
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