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Monthly Archives: September 2015

Website is safe: LHC

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has stated that its website is safe and being supervised and monitored by highly qualified IT officials. The LHC website contains external links of more than 50 legal websites and one of the linked websites hacked in a recent episode was not designed, developed and maintained by the IT section […]


Ordinary Souls opens

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KARACHI: An exhibition of Abdul Jabbar Gull’s artworks titled Ordinary Souls opened at the Sanat Gallery on Tuesday evening. Gull has earned renown in recent times for his distinctive creative ability, especially in the art of sculpting. This does not suggest that his oil-on-canvas work is of lesser significance, because be it painting or sculpting […]


RTI Commission launches its web portal

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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information (RTI) Commission on Tuesday launched its web portal, which would enable people seeking information from government departments to submit their questions electronically. The portal has been developed by the KP Department of Science and Information Technology. The launch took place at the information department’s media centre and KP […]


Cybercrime bill drafted ‘in haste’

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ISLAMABAD: Dissatisfied with the current draft of the cybercrimes bill, opposition parties plan to block the government from moving forward with the legislation until appropriate amendments have been incorporated in it. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have drawn parallel drafts to force the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) into removing […]


Cybercrime draft: Prickly issues remain largely unaddressed

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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology has approved a second draft of the government’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015. However, the revised draft seems to lack any substantial changes in the contentious clauses. A review of the original draft shows that while some clauses have been amended, the most controversial ones […]


Tried and tested: Moviemakers cash in on Eid fever

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PESHAWAR: After watching the stories of alcoholics and crazy Pukhtuns unfold on previous Eids, thousands of movie buffs now head to cinemas in the hope to catch some prayers of the malang. With seven new attractions, the city’s cinemas have seen packed houses during Eidul Azha. The movies hit the silver screen on the first […]


Education is right, not privilege, Malala tells UN

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UNITED NATIONS: Accompanied by 193 children holding lanterns, Malala Yusufzai persuaded leaders from across the world to promise that every child would have the right to safe, free and quality education. “Education is not a privilege, education is a right,” Malala told world leaders at the opening session of the 2030 sustainable development summit. Prime […]


‘No one was willing to give a blind person a chance to host a radio show’

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KARACHI: Attitudes towards the visually impaired in Pakistan are of a curious nature, oscillating between extreme indifference and ill-advised sympathy. Both are detrimental as they undermine the positive role such an individual can play in society. This is why many strive to generate discourse about the nuance of integrating people with disabilities into society in […]


Lahore High Court website hacked again

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court website seems highly vulnerable to hacking as it was hacked for the second time on Thursday. An Indian allegedly hacked the website last year and now some unidentified person has done it putting the data/information of the high court at risk. The hacker left a message saying, “We are not […]


Pakistan awaits modern right to information law

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ISLAMABAD: Some 13 years after passing legislation guaranteeing its citizens right to information, Pakistan still awaits a comprehensive, progressive law which ensures the right is exercised effectively. With the enactment of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Ordinance in 2002, Pakistan became the first country in South Asia to pass legislation on the right to information […]


‘Social media has no doors’

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KARACHI: The Yorkshire Adabee Forum will help people meet social media stars and help those stars to reach a larger platform. This was said by the forum’s secretary Madiha Ansari at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday. Madiha introduced a young social media personality, Mansoor Qureshi, to journalists, saying his group, […]


Education for all: I have a dream

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KARACHI: Syed Fahad Ali, a passionate young man running the Aghaaz School entirely on his own in a small neighbourhood in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, has only one rule: if someone wants to enrol their boys in his school, they have to get their girls enrolled as well. “I have made it mandatory in my school that if […]


Movie time: Book your tickets, Cinepax set to reopen today

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KARACHI: Federal B Area’s only cinema house is all set to reopen today, after being sealed by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) last month, on allegations of being operated illegally. Located near the Ayesha Manzil flyover, Cinepax City Auditorium cinema was catering to a large clientele from North Nazimabad, Nazimabad, Federal B Area, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and […]


Media Commission Case: SC givesl ast warning to submit reply

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has given last warning to seven parties, including Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and Hamid Mir, to submit reply about any objections on commission recommendations in Media Commission case. The court also cleared that neither further delay would be tolerated in the case nor its hearing will be adjourned. A three-member bench […]