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Daily Archives: February 19, 2017

New KUJ office-bearers elected

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The new office-bearers of the Karachi Union of Journalists were elected on Saturday. In the polls that were held at the Karachi Press Club from 9am to 5pm, Hasan Mansoor of The Progressive panel was elected the president with 278 votes. He beat Khurshid Abbasi of The Panel who fetched 212 votes. Shamim Bano and […]


Towards a realistic climate action policy

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Climate Change is a catastrophe that can be avoided by a combined human action and cooperation, as human civilization has been able to tackle many issues that threatened its well-being and survival in the past. What level of effort and sacrifice has to be made by individual countries and the relative proportion that is to […]


Discussion romanticises women’s maltreatment in literature

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ISLAMABAD: A discussion on the representation of women in literature in various languages of the country quickly devolved into the speakers romanticising fictional women’s acceptance of their subjugation during a session at the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival. The seminar, ‘Treatment and representation of women in mother languages’ literature’ was part of the two-day festival, […]


Electronic media have become a jury’

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Noted columnist Zahid Hussain says the wave of bigotry  that has overtaken our society, especially over the last  decade, would consume it like a giant conflagration Today, anchorpersons advocate  killing. The TV has become  a jury. Media has become  the epicentre of a  proxy war.  These views were expressed  by noted columnist  Zahid Hussain while […]