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Daily Archives: March 5, 2016

Media house pelted with stones

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People protesting the execution of Mumtaz Qadri on Friday Pelted the Business Recorder House with stones and chanted slogans against the media organisation. The caused damage to one of the vehicles of the media house and threatened its personnel. The protesters were quoted as saying that “The media organisation gave ‘insufficient’ coverage to the funeral […]


Threatening posters panic journalists

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Multan: A threatening poster pasted on the boundary wall of Multan Press Club (MPC) hurled the warning of serious consequences to the media, stirring serious concerns among the journalism fraternity here on Friday. The MPC administration suspected that some unidentified miscreants pasted the threatening poster on the boundary wall in wee hours of Friday at […]


Pemra fines channels for airing offensive material

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has fined News One Channel for fanning ethnic divide and provincial hatred and also fined TV One and Abb Takk channels for airing offensive material. The Pemra Council of Complaints in its 29th meeting held in Karachi with Prof Inam Bari in the chair upheld its previous […]


Moving forward: Healthcare apps come to the fore in Pakistan

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KARACHI: It had been a year since Faraz Shamsi lost a loved one to a heart attack, but the memory was still raw. Perhaps, the cardiac arrest wasn’t as fatal as failure to receive timely treatment was. Shamsi isn’t the only one who has lost someone due to the absence of information. In a mega […]


PM approves launching of ‘Green Pakistan Programme’ to add

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved launching of the ‘Green Pakistan Programme’ whereby over 100 million trees will be planted in the country. The idea, according to a press statement released by the PM Office on Friday, is based on the ‘Great Green Wall Programme’ of China. Whether it’s the ongoing one billion tree […]


$1.7bn from IT exports remain abroad every year, NA body told

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ISLAMABAD: More than $1.7 billion from Pakistan’s software exports remain outside the country’s foreign exchange reserves every year, said Secretary Ministry of Information Technology (IT) Azmat Ali Ranjha. “The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is reporting $500 to $600 million annual software exports but the actual IT exports are more than $2.2 billion a year,” […]


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