Monitoring print and electronic media from June 27 to July 3, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) foundissues related to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). They included PEMRA banninga Geo TV’s programmefor 3 days; Sindh High Court (SHC) suspendedthe PEMRA’s ban on ‘InaamGhar’; PEMRA approved issuance of licences; PEMRA asked to take action against some TV […]
IT was nice to see, during the last few years, literary circles celebrating the centennials of Shibli No’mani, Altaf Hussain Hali, N.M. Rashid, Sa’adat Hasan Manto, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Miraji and many other towering figures of Urdu literature. Mir Taqi Mir’s bicentenary was commemorated in 2010. But it was just as painful to note that […]
Karachi The onset of monsoon may have washed off the narrow lanes of Liaquatabad of dirt, but no one knows the number of monsoons it would take to wash off Qawwal Amjad Sabri’s blood from the area’s streets where he was brutally gunned down in broad daylight, just weeks ago. However, comprising of enthusiastic graduates […]
LAHORE at the turbulent crossroads where Pakistan finds itself today, there is more reason than ever to keep the struggle going. Art, music and theatre too have become sources of resistance – not just because of the changes they can bring to the world around us, but because of the way they change our relationship […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government had decided to give relief to the electronic media under Finance Act 2016 in tax collection on import of equipment for digitalisation of cable networks in the country. This would be enforced from July 1, 2016. The decision was taken on the recommendations of Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (Pemra) […]
KARACHI: “Is the latest issue of Khawateen Digest here as yet?” an abaya-clad woman approaches a roadside news stall with the question. “Yes, of course,” says the man running the stall smiling as he hands over a copy of the digest to her from a stack in front of him. “We start getting all these […]
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