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Media team paying for PM’s China trip

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By: Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves for China on Wednesday in a 12-seater jet, the media persons who will cover his visit are going to travel by commercial flights and pay for their trips for the first time. There are six journalists from private media going to China, a trip that […]


Media treads the wrong path

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By: Bina Shah AN excellent Asian Media Barometer tool has been developed by the Friedrich Ebert Siftung Foundation, a German political organisation that seeks to educate ordinary citizens about democracy and pluralism. The 2012 AMB was launched recently with a roundtable discussion about media and ethics, which made it clear that Pakistan’s media, especially our […]


Nawaz orders no more free junkets for the media

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By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: Free foreign junkets at the cost of taxpayers’ money for journalists are over as the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announced on Thursday that those media persons aspiring to cover the premier’s foreign tours are welcome to do so but at their own expenses, like it is done in all other countries […]


Body formed for proposals on newspaper industry issues

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By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid on Thursday formed a four-member committee to furnish its recommendations within seven days on the key issues the newspaper industry was presently facing. The minister took this decision during a lively interaction with the representatives of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), headed by […]


SC to make public media commission’s report

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced to make public the media commission’s report regarding the accountability of media persons. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, had constituted a two-member Media Accountability Commission of Justice (r) Nasir Aslam Zahid and Javed Jabbar. The commission was formed on the […]


Asrar searching for sufism in times of pop

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By: Sher Khan LAHORE: Music artist Asrar, with his trademark sufi looks, recently released his own version of Amrita Pritam’s poem Waris Shah giving it a personal twist. There have been many renditions of the poem over the years and one wonders how these classics continue to resonate through generations with the same zeal. Asrar, […]


Zong not interested in buying Warid

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By: Abrar Hamza KARACHI: The China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak) or Zong is not interested in purchasing one of the Pakistan’s telecom giants Warid Telecom as the company is preparing to get 3G and Long Distance International (LDI) licences, it was learnt from internal sources on Wednesday. In a bit to quash the raging rumours that […]


Akhtar Saeedi’s contribution to Urdu literature lauded

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By: MALEEHA HAMID SIDDIQUI KARACHI: Writers and journalists praised Akhtar Saeedi’s contribution to Urdu literature at a sitting at the Arts Council here on Monday evening. In his introductory remarks, Rasheed Khan Rasheed shed light on Saeedi’s personal history and professional career. “Born in Tando Adam, Saeedi’s father, Jauhar Saeedi, was a poet as were […]


‘Violence has influenced art tremendously in recent times’

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By: SYED HASSAN ALI KARACHI: As artists are greatly affected by their surroundings, not only the death and destruction caused by bomb blasts, gun attacks and arson activities but also the subsequent changes in lifestyle of people and their emotions associated with growing violence are bound to reflect in their work, say artists and art […]


Artist Abid Khan’s renditions of the beauty within

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KARACHI: Abid Khan’s fascination with nature and the beauty it withholds is apparent in his latest series of works. The English Literature academic claims he uses paintings as an effective medium to communicate his vision and ideas to the audience. His work, one finds, is mostly inspired by landscapes one comes across in English prose […]


The media challenge

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By: HUMA YUSUF INFORMATION Minister Pervaiz Rashid recently emphasised the PML-N government’s support for free media, acknowledging that it’s vital for promoting democracy. Ironically, that was one of the first things General Pervez Musharraf said after seizing power, in part to distinguish himself from his predecessor Nawaz Sharif, only to be ousted a decade later […]


Brushstrokes of watercolours bring Karachi, its saints to life

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By: Hifza Shah Jillani KARACHI: With the use of watercolours, artists Abdul Hayee and Sarfraz Musawwir have explored rural and urban life, landscape and cityscape, and nature and mortar in their recent works. The painters have drawn inspiration from Karachi and all that the city has to offer – cityscape of old buildings in Saddar, […]


Poetic fantasies in watercolours

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By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Fine Arts Pakistan (FAP) has organised a group exhibition titled ‘Nature and Mortar’ by Abdul Hayee and Sarfraz Musawir featured on Sufism and natural beauty on the earth. Around 48 paintings are on display on the gallery walls. Musawir’s paintings revolve around two themes, Sufism and cityscapes. In one of Musawir’s […]


6th Pakistan TeleCON 2013 concludes – Resolution passed to speed up deployment of new tech

KARACHI: The 6th Annual Pakistan Telecommunications Conference 2013 (TeleCON 2013) concluded on Friday with a resolution passed to speed up deployment of new technologies and celebrated Pakistan’s IT potential and success, both on the local and international fronts. Participants from a cross-section of the government, corporate, business, social and academic organisations attended the conference. Distinguished […]