25 | April | 2015 | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

Pakistan Press Foundation

Daily Archives: April 25, 2015

Rights activist shot dead after seminar on Baloch issue

Pakistan Press Foundation

KARACHI: Sabeen Mahmud, social media campaigner and human rights activist who founded the social forum T2F, was shot dead on Friday evening, minutes after the end of an interactive discussion ‘Unsilen­cing Balochistan’ organised by her and attended by journalists and rights activists, including the founder leader of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Abdul Qadeer […]


Love for words draws crowds to literature festival

Pakistan Press Foundation

ISLAMABAD: With the aim to keeping the tradition of book reading alive, the third edition of the Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) kick-started at the Margalla Hotel on Friday, albeit with a 45 minute delay which upset some literature enthusiasts. Inaugurating the three-day event, managing director of the Oxford University Press Pakistan and founder of the […]


Journalists convention held in Hyderabad

Pakistan Press Foundation

HYDERABAD: President Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (Butt group) Afzal Butt has said that the PFUJ planned to launch a decisive struggle, adding that about 80 per cent journalists in Karachi and other parts of Sindh were unable to work independently. He was addressing an All Pakistan Journalists Convention organised by the Hyderabad Union of […]


Master’s and PhD scholarship: Fulbright deadline extends to June 1

Pakistan Press Foundation

The United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) extend the application deadline for the 2016 Fulbright Masters and PhD programme to June 1, 2015. According to a statement issued on Friday, the extension will allow more eligible applicants to apply for the scholarship. Over 150 scholarships will be awarded to study at the best universities […]


Cybercrime Bill: Misconceptions and realities

Pakistan Press Foundation

At present the only law dealing with the cyber crimes or computer related crimes in Pakistan is Electronic Transactions Ordinance 2002. However, the offences defined under this Ordinance are of very limited scope covering privacy of information and damage to information systems only. Whereas everyone agrees that there is a dire need of a law […]


T2F hosts the Balochistan discussion that others shy away from

Pakistan Press Foundation

KARACHI: With the latest cybercrime bill passed by a National Assembly committee, freedom of expression has once again come under threat adding onto the gag on reporting and talking on certain issues within the borders of Pakistan. One such issue is the struggle for an independent Balochistan that has been ongoing over decades and seen […]


4

Sabeen Mahmud — a profile

Pakistan Press Foundation

KARACHI: Peace activist and founder of T2F Sabeen Mahmud, who died from gunshot wounds on Friday, was a woman of many talents that mostly revolved around creating digital platforms for arts and culture. An only child of an educationist mother and advertising professional father, Ms Mahmud was born in Karachi and received her early education […]