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Ministry of climate change seeks funds for projects

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Islamabad: The ministry of climate change is approaching the Planning Commission as well as other international climate change funding channels like Green Climate Fund to get funds required for work on various ongoing projects. The spokesman for the climate change ministry said the ongoing project include sustainable and green cities, sustainable land management programme to […]


Pakistani cinemas stop screening Indian films

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KARACHI: The Pakistani cinemas have stopped screening Indian films after an escalation of violence in Kashmir between Pakistan and India, theatre owners said on Friday. “We have stopped screening Indian movies at our cinemas from Friday till the situation improves and normalcy returns,” said Nadeem Mandviwalla, whose Mandviwalla Entertainment runs eight cinemas in Karachi and […]


Sadaf Kanwal’s debut film to release in February

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KARACHI: The release date for Haissam Hussain’s directorial debut Balu Mahi has been set and announced for February 10, 2017, the weekend before Valentine’s Day. According to a press release, supermodel Sadaf Kanwal will be making her film debut with Balu Mahi in the film, which brings forth the first-time coupling of model-actor Ainy Jaffri and […]


‘No child labour survey conducted in 20 years’

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KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Friday said none of the provinces was eager to conduct a fresh child labour survey even though the last survey was conducted 20 years ago. They said useful social protection policies that were sensitive to children’s needs were needed in Pakistan to eradicate child labour. The seminar “A child […]


For Peshawar Christians, burial space is shrinking

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PESHAWAR: Finding a piece of land to build a home in the provincial metropolis can be relatively easy, but securing a final resting place is harder still with graveyards now running out of room – especially for minorities. Escalating land prices, encroachment, urbanisation and population growth are constricting the city’s cemeteries and at many of these […]


Pemra fines channel for defaming NAB chief

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra)’s council of complaints, Islamabad, on Friday imposed a fine of Rs500,000 (Rs0.5m) on Channel 92 for airing  baseless and contrary to facts analysis on its show ‘Mukabil’ against the NAB chairman. The council, under its chairperson Shamim Humayun, deliberated upon the matter, after the NAB’s deputy chairman […]