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Monthly Archives: July 2017

‘Draft of Punjab Drugs Act 2017 to be tabled in next PA session’

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LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said the Punjab government will table the consensus draft of Punjab Drugs (Amendment) Act 2017, prepared in consultation with the representatives of all stakeholders, in the next session of Punjab Assembly to be held in August, which aims at providing not only business-friendly environment to the pharma industry […]


Killing off the serenity

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ISLAMABAD: It’s about to rain yet again in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Murree and the catchment areas of the Rawal lake. Clouds are hovering over the region and the breeze has brought the temperature down by several degrees as the sun’s rays remain blocked by the overcast conditions. The shrubs on the hillocks encircling the lake look […]


SC slams Pemra for furnishing different version of Hashmi’s speech

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday came down hard on the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) for misleading it by furnishing the transcript of Nehal Hashmi’s May 28 outburst that was different from the one aired by private television channels. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan had taken up contempt of […]


LHC reserves judgment on petition against TV talk shows

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LAHORE : The Lahore High Court (LHC) reserved judgment on maintainability of a petition requesting to restrain private TV channels from debating Panama Papers case in talk shows. A local resident, Amjad Farooq, had moved a petition in LHC and his counsel advocate AK Dogar said that according to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) rules […]


Press in the dock

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THE police came in the early hours. Everyone was asleep … It was twilight…. Thirteen journalists’ homes were raided in the early hours of Oct 31, 2016. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper lived in one. The CEO in another. Columnists in four, lawyers in three … the reporter, the ombudsman, the books section editor, the […]


Imran’s allegation and the reporter’s response

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ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan has charged that MSR and his pro-PML-N propagandists get exposed every time they target him with falsehood and fail to print facts they themselves got confirmed. He wrote in his twitter account and also displayed a copy of the letter by Austin Robertson, ex-director, who mentioned in the letter, “I […]


Teenage maid recovered from TV anchor’s home

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LAHORE: A court handed over a teenage maid to her father after getting her recovered from illegal custody of a news TV anchor. Muhammad Munir of Nankana Sahib had filed a habeas corpus petition for the recovery of his 15-year-old daughter, who had been employed by the anchorperson at her residence in Bahria Town, Lahore. […]


Larger than life

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We know that Pepsi scored a decisive coup by roping in two of modern music’s most majestic voices – Atif Aslam and Meesha Shafi – when announcing the return of the Battle of the Bands, the short-lived but still revered music competition that made its inaugural appearance in 2002 and gave us bands like Mekaal […]


Journalists angry as no FIR against FIA officials

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ISLAMABAD: Journalists protested that an FIR has not yet been registered against Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials accused of manhandling journalists, in response to a call to protest by the Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) and the National Press Club (NPC). FIA officials on July 21 manhandled Channel 24 reporters Saba Bajeer and Irfan Malik, […]


Decapitated bodies of young boy, girl found from house

Decapitated bodies of a young boy and a girl were recovered from a house in Farooq Colony area of D’Silva Town, North Nazimabad district here. Police has said that the boy and the girl were apparently murdered last night by a sharp edge tool. Police suspects that girl’s family murdered her as well as the boy. Police says that killings appears to be Honor killings. According […]


The climate threat

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In a recent report, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has laid out the sheer scale of the challenge posed to Pakistan’s economic future by climate change. Problems with the ADB’s own understanding aside, the bank has noted correctly that Pakistan’s capacity to store freshwater is poor compared to its regional counterparts. Pakistan can only store […]


Critical Facebook posts leave students’ fate hanging in balance

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LAHORE: After being expelled by the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) for putting up critical Facebook posts, the future of certain students hangs in the balance despite assurances from the varsity that they would be reinstated. Talking to The Express Tribune, an expelled student, requesting anonymity, said the administration had not allowed them to return despite the […]


Vital witness protection bill hangs fire

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LAHORE: An important bill designed to protect witnesses particularly in cases of terrorism or heinous crime so as to ensure punishment to the culprits, or to encourage witnesses to hold their ground without any fear of elimination, is pending finality because of difference of opinion between the law and home departments. Interestingly, the draft bill […]


Hadiqa Kiani on working with Abdullah Harris for Wajd

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Having released four tracks from Wajd, sung in a number of languages, Hadiqa Kiani is now gearing up to unleash the fifth song from her six-track EP that made its debut earlier this year. In the lead-up to the release, a BTS video featuring Hadiqa can be found online in which you can hear bits […]