KARACHI, Dec 5: Caretaker Sindh Finance Minister Dewan Mohammed Yusuf Farooqui ordered on Wednesday immediate release of Rs10 million for expediting development works at journalists’ colony in Hawkesbay. The minister said that efforts would be made to extend maximum financial help to press clubs in Sindh and necessary steps would be taken to raise the […]
Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects, classified by their classifications, distinguish themselves by the distinctions they make, between the beautiful and the ugly, the distinguished and the vulgar, in which their position in the objective classifications is expressed or betrayed. — Pierre Bourdieu Language and visuals which used to be considered as […]
HYDERABAD, Dec 6: The EDO education Hyderabad suspended high school teacher Buland Iqbal here on Thursday in the wake of a corporal punishment case at Govt Boys Himayatul Islam High school in Tilak Incline. EDO education Prof. Anwar Siddiqui has also issued a show cause notice to the school headmaster for not reporting the higher […]
ISLAMABAD- The nascent radio industry is suffering huge financial losses due to the oblivious and apathetic behaviour of PEMRA officials, said chairman Association of Independent Radio Broadcasters at a meeting held here on Wednesday. The chairman said that two radio stations Power 99 FM and Mast FM 103 are closed since November 3 and are […]
LAKKI MARWAT: A woman who was kidnapped three-and-a-half years ago by the notorious Arsal gang of Bhettani tribe in the Frontier Region Lakki, escaped from her captors and reached her home at Kherukhel Pakka village of Lakki Marwat district late Tuesday night, officials in political administration confirmed. Fozia Bibi was kidnapped along with her father […]
LAHORE, Dec 5: A young couple was found dead in their flat under mysterious circumstances in the Civil Lines area on Wednesday morning. The family and police suspected that the couple had committed suicide after hanging themselves with a ceiling fan for being issueless. According to Edhi officials, bodies of Mubashir, 28, and his wife […]
LAHORE, Dec 5: Civil society activists, lawyers and students will come together on Dec 10, international human rights day, to form a human chain around the Lahore High Court and demand restoration of the judiciary to pre-November 3 status. During a meeting, Advocate Khurram Latif Khosa, Secretary of the Campaign for Democracy and Rule of […]
LAHORE, Dec 5: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) along with other civil society groups will observe the Universal Human Rights Day on Dec 10 as a black day to condemn the worst HR abuses recorded in the history of the country during 2007. Announcing this here on Wednesday, HRCP Chairperson Asma Jehangir said […]
LAHORE: Political parties, civil society organisations and lawyers announced marking the International Human Rights Day as Black Day on December 10. The move was initiated in a seminar on “Campaign for Restoration of Democracy and Rule of Law in Pakistan” held under the auspices of various human rights organisations at the Lahore Press Club on […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: Riot police was stoned in the capital city on Wednesday when they baton charged a group of students after being provoked by fiery slogans against them in a protest demonstration near Aabpara police station. The clash broke out between the law enforcers and the pupil near the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club (RIPC) camp […]
It is the need of changing times that publishers should convert their books on CD’s and digital electronic media so that the books may be publicised and promoted. President International Islamic University Dr Anwaar Hussain Siddiqui said at the inauguration of the four-day Book Fair that commenced here at Pakistan Academy of Letters here on […]
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