Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said that media is playing a vital role in strengthening democracy and highlighting social issues. He said media can also play a significant role in providing guidance for reforming the society and bringing the country out of its current problems. He said electronic media is expeditiously going through its […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to two Urdu-language newspapers to explain about a news item they published, suggesting appointment of a commission by the government to probe into how the media had obtained the copy of a letter written by NAB chairman Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari to President Asif Ali Zardari. “How […]
Our Correspondent MINGORA: The fourth death anniversary of Musa Khankhel was observed at the Swat Press Club on Monday. Unidentified persons killed Musa Khankhel, correspondent of The News and Geo News, on February 18, 2009 in Matta tehsil of Swat district where he had gone to cover the story about the rally of Tanzim Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Herald Publications Limited has announced the inception of the ZM Award for Journalistic Excellence to recognise the contribution of seasoned journalist Zubeida Mustafa, both to Dawn and to the field of journalism in Pakistan. Zubeida Mustafa worked at Dawn for 33 years and has written extensively on education, international relations, women’s issues and […]
By: Imtiaz Ali Karachi: The foreign media has least interest in covering Karachi killings partly because they were a routine matter, said Declan Walsh, the New York Times correspondent in Pakistan. He was speaking at a session titled “Pakistan through Foreign Eyes” on the third day of the 4th Karachi Literature Festival on Sunday. “Violence […]
By: Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: It’s ironic that the poets of the classical Urdu literature era were never restrained from expressing their bold poetic views and no one ever questioned their honesty of purpose regarding their works, but the writers of present times are facing great hardships on the issue of freedom of expression. These […]
YOUTUBE ban continues in Pakistan in spite of several promises made by Rehman Malik, which are on record, to lift the ban within a few weeks. A good four months have passed since the ban. On YouTube, one could frequently see a great deal of region-specific content that can be accessed only in the specified […]
In a bid to eradicate grey trafficking, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday approved ‘The Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organisation) Bill of 2012’, which would be presented before the lower house of parliament in the next session. The committee, which met under Chaudhry Barjees Tahir, expressed irritation over the alleged silence by officials […]
This refers to your editorial ‘YouTube blockade’ (Jan 29). The continuous ban on YouTube serves no purpose when the whole world has an access to it. I believe that we must register our protest now. It is time to move ahead. For how long will we be having no access to various materials on the […]
ISLAMABAD: Months after the initial ban on popular video sharing site, YouTube, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) on Wednesday announced that the government still has no intention of unblocking it. The PTA apprised the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology on Wednesday regarding the status of YouTube, which was banned after the launch of […]
LAHORE – President Asif Ali Zadari has said that the role of media is vital for a stable democratic system in the country. Talking to Nawa-i-Waqt Group Managing Director Majid Nizami at a luncheon meeting at Bilawal House on Wednesday, the president said the role and contribution made by the media to the restoration of […]
Sir: I appreciate Malala Yousufzai who is from Swat. But I also keep thinking about the rest of the Malalas in Swat. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government claims that it has prioritised education. I personally belong to Swat, Kohistan, which consists of three union councils having only one girls high school in Bahrain town. Besides, there […]
By Irfan Ashraf The writer is a doctoral fellow at Southern Illinois University in the US For the last three years in a row, Pakistan has been declared one of the most dangerous countries in the world for working journalists. Thirteen journalists were killed in different incidents in 2012. And 2013, not even two months […]
PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban have warned shopkeepers in a popular market to stop selling “obscene films” and Viagra-style male potency pills. Shopkeepers told AFP on Monday that they found handwritten pamphlets containing the warnings after opening on Saturday in Karkhano market in Peshawar. “Selling sex drugs, vulgar films and obscene movies are against Sharia,” said […]
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