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Daily Archives: April 13, 2015

Rangers thrash The Nation reporter

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KARACHI – The Rangers manhandled a staff member of The Nation during snap-checking in Allah Wali Chowrangi area at Tariq Road intersection on Sunday. According to details, Abdullah Zafar, a staff reporter of The Nation was on his way to home from office located at MA Jinnah Road when traffic police personnel intercepted him at […]


Mobile operators start blocking 10m unverified SIMs

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Islamabad – After the expiry of biometric reverification campaign of subscriber identity modules (SIMs) on Sunday, the mobile phone companies started blocking around 10 million unverified SIMs, but many of the questions surfaced during the exercise stretching over three months, are yet to be answered. According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), around 78 million SIMs […]


Challenges to media despite its phenomenal growth highlighted

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Though mass media was flourishing in Pakistan the country was still among most unsafe states for journalists to work in. Denmark’s Ambassador to Pakistan Jesper Mollar Sorensen made these remarks while presiding over the inaugural session of the 2nd ‘Transforming Youth Media Summit’ on Saturday. The envoy said that some 110 journalists had lost their […]