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Daily Archives: June 4, 2016

SHC adjourns hearing against ban on film

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KARACHI:The Sindh High Court on Friday adjourned the hearing against the ban on director Ashar Azeem’s movie, Maalik.The division bench adjourned hearing on the petition challenging the ban on the screening of the film by the Central Board of Film Certification. Azeem’s lawyer told the court that the petitioner was suffering huge financial losses due […]


Cyber crime on the rise, says FIA

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LAHORE:Criminals abusing technology to further their own ends are to blame for a spike in crime, FIA Punjab Cyber Wing Deputy Director Syed Shahid Hassan said on Friday. Hassan made the remarks while speaking at a seminar on cyber crime and social media ethics at the UET. He said this should be a cause of […]


Teach through example: educationist

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KARACHI:What a teacher says and does is the real curriculum. It is not something fixed but a vibrant reality that occurs every day. For example, if teacher preaches punctuality to students and comes late for her class herself that is also curriculum. Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad vice-chancellor Shahid Siddiqui shared these views at the […]


Dawn to host next year’s ANN meeting

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BEIJING: The next annual meeting of the executive board of Asia News Network (ANN) will be held in Islamabad in 2017. The dates for the meeting, to be hosted by the Dawn Media Group, will be announced later. The decision was taken at this year’s meeting held in Beijing which, among other matters, announced the […]


Experts stress measures to save crops from climate changes

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ISLAMABAD – An agriculture expert, Shamsul Haq Memon, has stressed the need for giving attention to the agriculture sector, particularly keeping in view the latest climatic and environmental changes occurring in the country. Giving an interview to PTV News on Friday, he underscored the fact that Pakistan should never forget to preserve it crops from […]