Filmmakers from across the globe have the chance to submit their work to the 10th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from March 5-13 in Prague. Last day for submission: October 30.According to organizers, feature length documentaries, short documentaries (less than 35 minutes) and animations (up to 35 minutes) […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 4: A media workshop to create awareness against child marriages and corporeal punishment was told that a bill against child marriages has been prepared which when passed can send violators to 10 years behind bars. The print and electronic media were exhorted to play their role in creating awareness against child marriages and […]
NAWABSHAH, Sept 6: Police found bodies of a young boy and girl from a deserted roadside place near 68-Mori of Jam Wah (canal) on Thursday. Reports said that Saadullah, son of Huzur Bux Brohi and Zubaida, daughter of Ata Mohammad Brohi, were murdered with axe. Later, police sources said that girls’ father and her uncle, […]
HYDERABAD, Sept 6: The investigating wing of Hyderabad police has been accused of resorting to inhuman methods to investigate the case of kidnapping of a three-day-old baby, Dua. A maidservant alleged here on Thursday that police personnel had stripped her and bit on her face. She sought intervention of the chief justice of Pakistan to […]
RAWALPINDI, Sept 6: An additional district and sessions judge here on Thursday issued non-bailable warrant of gang rape accused for not appearing in the court despite repeated summons. Earlier the accused Jamil Ahmad had been granted bail from the Supreme Court but was not appearing in the court in spite of repeated summons. According to […]
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LONDON, Sept 6: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid is one of the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious award for fiction. ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ is a critically praised novel about a westernised middle-class Pakistani whose life is transformed by the Sept 11 attacks. On top of the six-novel shortlist […]
LAHORE, Sept 6: Retailers and not the franchises of cell phone companies are ‘mainly responsible’ for issuance of connections without maintaining record, reveals a survey conducted by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. The PTA had started a random inspection of mobile phone companies’ franchises and retailers throughout the country in the first week of last month. […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday dispelled the impression that relationship between the government and media had soured after recent incidents. He was talking to media personnel after laying the foundation stone for the National Press Club in the federal capital. The ceremony was held at the Prime Minister secretariat for security […]
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