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Daily Archives: February 3, 2016

Media men face law enforcers’ wrath

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KARACHI: It is generally believed that a journalist can save his skin in times of crisis by showing his identity. But on Tuesday whoever was wearing a press card and trying to cover the Pakistan International Airline (PIA) employees’ protest, faced collective wrath of law enforcers. After the shots had been fired in a rally […]


About the film ‘the Journey of Project Charlie’

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It was a fine chilly night of December 2013 when Sultan Ghani Afzal and Faisal Hashmi were sitting in the Stimulus office when suddenly it dawned on them that it was high time they made a film! It was always Sultan’s dream to make a film on someone who has left behind a legacy and […]


Pemra chief directed to become party in BOL TV case

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ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday took up the issue of BOL TV, which was not allowed to start its transmission last year, and directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman to become a party in the case. A representative of BOL, Faisal Aziz Khan, informed the committee […]


Veteran Urdu fiction writer Intizar Hussain passes away at 92

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LAHORE: Veteran short story writer, novelist, columnist and poet Intizar Hussain passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Lahore. The 92-year-old was undergoing treatment at a private hospital. Hussain was among the 10 finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2013. He was the first Pakistani and the first Urdu writer […]