Our government loves surprising the citizens of Pakistan. Usually, we don’t tend to see eye to eye, like Tahir Shah so eloquently penned it, with what our government is doing and it seems as though the National Council of Culture and Arts has continued with this grand tradition. What we’re talking about is a list […]
Gluttony may well be one of the seven deadly sins we love to avoid but it is time to embrace this sin cheerfully as the annual food festival, namely Karachi Eat 2017 gears up to fill up your senses. With close to 95 stalls and dozens of brands offering both sweet and savoury delights, the […]
The drop in Karachi’s temperature levels that has come just after the reopening of schools in the first week of January has sparked demands for an extension of the winter break duration. In view of the cold wave, a faction of the city’s private schools association has demanded of the authorities to extend the winter […]
ISLAMABAD: The number of 3G and 4G users in Pakistan reached 36.412 million by end-November against 35.45 million by end of October 2016, official documents of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) revealed Wednesday. Number of mobile phone users in Pakistan reached 135.866 million by end of November 2016 from 134.911 million by end of October 2016, […]
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar said on Wednesday that the apex court would have to find out the truth and verdicts would be given speedily. The apex court sent Tayyaba to the Sweet Homes, an orphanage which provides facilities of boarding, education, sports and co-curricular facilities to homeless children. A two-member […]
PESHAWAR: A woman, who was allegedly tortured and burnt by in-laws in Nowshera district last month, died at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad on the morning of Wednesday, January 11. The victim was buried in her ancestral village of Dagi Jadeed in Nowshera. While her relatives were optimistic about improvement of […]
CHAKWAL: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured the minorities on Wednesday that the government would keep working for their betterment as it believed they had the same rights as members of the majority community. Mr Sharif, addressing a ceremony at Katas Raj temple complex, said his government was working on a number of projects to improve […]
A fifth social activist has gone missing from Islamabad, a colleague said Wednesday, days after four other campaigners disappeared in a way that has alarmed supporters of free speech. Samar Abbas, president of the Civil Progressive Alliance of Pakistan (CPAP), an anti-extremism activist group, went missing on Saturday, according to Talib Raza, who worked with […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazidof Bangladesh, expressed concern over the arrest of reporter Nazmul Huda in Dhaka on Dec 24. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali urged the government of Bangladesh to properly investigate the charges against Huda, and to ensure that he gets a fair hearing. […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela, expressed concern over the compulsory parliamentary broadcast on private radio and television channels on January 5, 2017. According to the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela (IPYS), also known as Press and Society Institute of Venezuela, the live broadcasts of open-signal radio […]
ISLAMABAD: The plight of missing academic Salman Haider and three other missing activists was highlighted on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday when Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan briefed the house on the measures being taken to recover the four abducted men. “This government is not in the business of disappearing people and […]
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