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Daily Archives: February 12, 2016

Pakistan Press Foundation expresses concern on blogging platform Medium’s blocking

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Pakistan Press Foundation PPF in a letter to Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak expressed concern on blogging platform Medium’s blocking apparently in an effort to censor Sarawak Report, an investigative news outlet critical of the government. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to Prime Minister urged Malaysian government to take remedial […]


Tree plantation a noble cause

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CHANGA MANGA – Tree plantation is a noble cause and everyone should protect trees, said Syed Ajmal Raheem, Conservator of Forests Lahore here yesterday. He was accompanied by Divisional Forest Officer Changa Manga Chaudhry Hayat Hassan. Syed Ajmal said that forests will be protected at all costs. The CF Lahore also inaugurated the miles-long barbed […]


Media dramatisation panics nation, benefits terrorists: Nisar

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ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Thursday urged the electronic media to shun the practice of dramatising security-related issues and running sensational tickers, as such practices create panic in the society fulfilling terrorists’ agendas to disrupt normal life. Giving a comprehensive plan to secure media houses, schools and markets against terrorist attacks, the minister […]


Govt to ensure welfare of journalists: Pervaiz

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ISLAMABAD – The present democratic government would utilize all available resources for the welfare of journalists and media workers of backward areas. Senator Pervaiz Rashid Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage (IB&NH) said this in a meeting with the delegation, comprising members of Hangu Press Club here Thursday. He said that government believes […]


Foolproof security for media houses, schools ordered

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ISLAMABAD: Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has expressed displeasure over the performance of the government functionaries who, according to him, are not delivering to the optimum level. “Government functionaries are not ready to work and apparently everyone seems to be failing in the country,” the minister remarked while addressing a meeting of the city […]


In black and white: The house of books

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ISLAMABAD: Power Failure: The Political Odyssey of a Pakistani Woman is the name of a memoir which conveys almost everything about Pakistan’s chequered history and still bears relevance today. But its addition to a collection of over 85,000 volumes of books and rare manuscripts, including the original copy of the 1973 Constitution, at the National […]


Suspect held for harassing woman through fake Facebook accounts

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KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested a man for allegedly harassing a woman by operating three fake Facebook profile accounts in her name. The arrest, made late Wednesday evening and officially announced on Thursday morning, was made on the complaint of a 28-year-old woman. In her complaint to the Cyber Crime Circle (CCC) on […]


Rest in peace: Former journalist Naushaba Burney dies at 83

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KARACHI: Former journalist and social activist, Naushaba Burney, passed away on Thursday. She was 83. According to her sister, Oxford University Press managing director Ameena Saiyid, Burney was hospitalised on Wednesday after suffering from a pneumonia infection. An asthma attack on Thursday ended her life at South City Hospital. Before she fell sick, Burney was […]