The Sindh chief minister has decided to establish the Business Climate Unit (BCU) in the Sindh Planning and Development Department to simplify official procedures for the business community, according to a press statement issued on Thursday. He took this decision while holding a meeting with a World Bank delegation lead by its country chief Illango […]
LAHORE – The Lahore High Court yesterday refused bail to a man allegedly involved in blackmailing a woman by uploading her nude pictures on Facebook, a social networking website. Muhammad Munawar, one of the suspects of online blackmailing, had filed a bail petition through his counsel and contended that he had nothing with the allegations […]
ISLAMABAD: The country’s print media watchdog on Thursday resolved that the committee constituted by the government to investigate the source of the leak behind Dawn’s Oct 6 story should not proceed against the newspaper or insist that it disclose its source. The unanimous view expressed by the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) is a landmark […]
KARACHI: Former governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan said that he will write a book on his 14-year-long tenure as provincial governor. He was speaking during his farewell at Governor House on Thursday. “I will finish my book in six months,” he said, adding that it will be a memoir, which will focus on the realities of […]
ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb Thursday said that the Ministry is preparing a bill on the safety and protection of journalists which will be ready by November 20. Talking to journalists here on a dinner she said that the government wants to provide maximum security and safety to journalist […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Yahya Jammeh, President of Islamic Republic of The Gambia expressed concerned over the sentenced of four years of imprisonment to journalist Alhagie Abdoulie Ceesay. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged The Gambian government to take action against the court orders and drop charges […]
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