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Daily Archives: June 30, 2016

Preventing smuggling: Wildlife Dept, WWF to raise awareness

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LAHORE: The Wildlife Department and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) will together set up information desks at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore and the Benazir International Airport in Islamabad to raise awareness regarding the protection of wildlife and to discourage smuggling of endangered species. This was announced at a meeting of the […]


Cybercrime Bill wades back into controversy

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ISLAMABAD: The much-debated Cybercrime Bill is still generating controversy even after its passage by the National Assembly last month, with the senators recommending the government on Wednesday to revisit its contentious clauses and take the relevant stakeholders on-board. The sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunications met here with Senator Osman […]


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Death of writer Ahsan Saleem leaves a vacuum in progressive Urdu literature

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Karachi the sad news of the death of renowned writer and poet, Ahsan Saleem, has yet to sink in the literary community who still cannot believe that they have lost the lively and enigmatic scholar from among their midst. The editor of Urdu quarterly “Ijra” and the secretary of “Ijra Takhleeqi Mukaalma” died after a […]


Tree plantation drive to start from Aug 14

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ISLAMABAD: A national plantation campaign would kick off on Aug 14, said the federal Minister for Climate Change Zahid Hamid on Wednesday, adding that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would launch the Green Pakistan Program­­me and inaugurate the Monsoon Tree Planting Campaign 2016.Mr Hamid said this while chairing an inter-provincial meeting on the tree plantation campaign […]


Pemra okays loop-holders policy, gives go-ahead for issuance of licences

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) in its 115th meeting on Wednesday approved loop-holders policy and gave go ahead for issuance of licences for promotion of cable TV in the country. According to a Pemra press release this decision will be helpful in providing cable TV facility to far off areas of the country […]


PPF Media Monitoring Report June 20-26

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) monitored print and electronic media’s week-long news from June 20 to June 26 in which following media related news were recorded: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) invites applications for issuing DTH satellite TV distribution service licenses; PEMRA asks TV channels to broadcast apologies for controversial views; Notice issued to private […]


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