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Daily Archives: September 23, 2017

TonyMoly brings Korean beauty to Pakistan

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Lahore: Korean Beauty has become somewhat of a mammoth entity with tons of players. While the market is dominated by many individual products, TonyMoly still manages to stand out under this umbrella. Overtime K Beauty has proved itself to be more than just a passing fad and its real staying power is evident in the […]


Three major hospitals shorten duty durations

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LAHORE: A much-awaited demand of thousands of young doctors has been fulfilled as three major hospitals of the provincial capital reduced duty hours from 36 hours to just eight. It was the year’s long pending issue and a main cause for agitation and protests of doctors at public sector hospitals. CEO Mayo Hospital Dr Asad Aslam, […]


SHC seeks lists of civil servants working in the media

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HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered on Friday the provincial government to submit lists of government servants working as journalists in all administrative divisions of Sindh. The bench, comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Fahim Ahmed Siddiqi, gave a final warning to the provincial additional advocate-general after the Hyderabad commissioner submitted the list for nine districts […]


Media capture: not inevitable

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Media capture is the result not just of technological and market forces, but of political choices made by political and business leaders. It is a complex problem, but not inevitable. Exacerbated by the economic weakness of the traditional news business and the growing concentration of ownership of media industries, media capture has become one of the […]


‘She was disowned for marrying of her choice’

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“This seems to be one of those so-called honour killings. The victim, Hajra, had been disowned by her family over a year ago for marrying a man of her choice, Tahir. Though we do not have evidence yet, it is highly probable that Tahir too has been murdered somewhere in Karachi.” These details were shared […]