Pakistan Press Foundation PPF in a letter to President of Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani welcomed release of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian,who had been imprisoned in Iran since July 2014. Rezaian was freed as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Iran. The Post, confirmed that he had left Iran […]
LAHORE – Senior journalist and writer Zabir Saeed Badar has been awarded the best Media Educationist Award for the year 2015 by South Asian Literary Forum (SALF). The award ceremony was held at a local hotel. SALF secretary general Muhammad Ejaz-ul-Haq gave away the award. Renowned Turkish scholar Dr Durmush Bulgar, researcher of international fame […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Council of Complaints, Balochistan, in its 31st meeting held with Prof Agha Muhammad Nasir in the chair at Pemra regional office, Quetta on Thursday has recommended the Authority to strictly monitor the content of commercial ads in view of its societal effects on our young generation. It was […]
MURREE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed preparation of a comprehensive national policy on art, literature and artists. He was chairing a meeting at the Government House, Murree, on Friday to review the progress on various development projects pertaining to the hill station. The prime minister said the revival of the film industry was a […]
KARACHI: The Punjab government has made little progress in making its websites comply with its transparency and right to information law, a report by digital rights groups says. It says that there have been only small improvements in this regard over July-December 2015 period. The fourth biannual State of Proactive Disclosure of Information in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa […]
Karachi: Friday morning was a real balmy, sunny one with the gentle Arabian Sea breeze cutting through the palm fronts and a galaxy of celebrities streaming into the venue, the seaside Beach Luxury Hotel with its well-manicured, lush lawns. Thus began the seventh Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), sponsored by the Oxford University Press and co-sponsored […]
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KARACHI: Ghost nets — a fishing gear discarded, lost or abandoned in the marine environment — have become a serious threat to marine life and the fisheries sector and there is a dire need for concerted efforts to remove them, said marine experts at a workshop. Titled ‘Ghost nets and Fisheries of Pakistan’, the workshop […]
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