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Daily Archives: September 16, 2015

Senate body asks govt to unblock YouTube

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ISLAMABAD: A Senate standing committee on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Information Technology to unblock YouTube at the earliest. “Both the Internet users and service providers are at the losing ends. The users have been deprived of an important educational platform and Google is losing money,” said chairman Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology Shahi […]


Sadequain: An artist extraordinaire

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Karachi: When an artist depicts social and political ills of the society through the canvas, the ideological and philosophical conflicts of the artist’s mind take on a visual appearance. The unseen ideas and theories then appear as physical symbols and objects. Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, popularly known as Sadequain Naqqash, was one such artist who […]


Govt has failed to protect journalists: PFUJ chief

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BRUSSELS: The president of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Jim Boumelha said Tuesday that sacrifices rendered by journalists for the freedom of press and media in Pakistan will not be in vain. He was speaking to a delegation of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) at the IFJ head office in Brussels. Deputy secretary-general IFJ […]


The way forward: Even with laws, child rights not being upheld, lament activists

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KARACHI: Activist Rubina Brohi, who spent her childhood playing out on the streets, doesn’t let her six-year-old daughter go outside to the nearby shop, even with the girl’s father. “I don’t give her permission to go. I feel insecure…” Taking the discussion further, chairperson of the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC), Justice (retd) Majida Rizvi, […]