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Daily Archives: May 29, 2015

Peace journalism

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The post-9/11 scenario saw more and more journalists being attracted towards ‘conflict reporting’. The terms suicide attack, VBIED, IED, suicide jacket, extortion, ransom, martyrs, death squad, mastermind, operations, explosive, assassination, assault, target killing, terrorism and counterterrorism are some of the terms that came into vogue during this period. The repetitive usage of such terms by […]


Education basic right of every child: CII

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ISLAMABAD – Chairman Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani here on Thursday said that child education to be started from the age of seven. Addressing a press conference after the seminar on developing curriculum of primary education, he said there are three basic aspects of education for Muslims including ideology, morality and […]


Pakistan condemns attack on journalists

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UNITED NATIONS: Pak­istan unequivocally condemned all attacks on and violence against journalists in the performance of their professional duties. Participating in a debate on Protection of Journalists in Conflict Situations’ in the UN Security Council, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi said that Pakistan shares the international outrage on the recent beheading and summary execution of […]


SC asks Pemra to put names of media owners, officers on website

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to ensure putting names of media owners, directors, chief executive officers and shareholders on its website. A two-member bench of the apex court comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed resumed hearing on implementation of media commission recommendations as […]


Protecting rights: Minorities demand ‘powerful’ commission

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KARACHI: Representatives of various religious minorities have demanded the constitution of a ‘powerful’ commission on minorities’ rights. They have also suggested that no non-Muslim parliamentarian be made a part of the commission. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan member Amarnath Motumal reasoned the commission should not consist of parliamentarians nominated on reserved seats for minorities as […]


Media commission case: ‘Judiciary, army cannot be criticised despite freedom of expression’

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court observed on Thursday that million of rupees are beings spent on the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) but their details are not being furnished in the court. A 2-member bench of the apex court presided over by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja took up the media commission case for hearing. During […]


Facebook boss announces provision of free Internet for Pakistan

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CALIFORNIA – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the provision of free Internet access for users in Pakistan through the social-media giant’s new initiative Internet.org, which is currently available on Telenor network. Internet.org is a latest Facebook enterprise through which the company aims at providing free internet access to people in developing countries. Before Pakistan, […]


Truck art: Colour, with a dash of humour

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KARACHI: The walls of the Indus Valley School gallery provide a glimpse into Pakistan’s vibrant truck art: from booming colours of the flowery patterns to the cheesy taglines, 100 students in their foundation year offered a potpourri of truck art works. The show, titled ‘Off the Road — A Truck Art Exhibition’, opened on Wednesday. […]