THE media has historically proved to be a multiplier of ideas for social change if we study global examples. Likewise the media in Pakistan can play a major role both in improving the overall state of development and addressing the poverty of ideas. Media can conduct in-depth investigative stories exposing faultiness in the model of […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Giving rise to fresh fears of a possible confrontation between the government and judiciary, the law ministry sent to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday a summary suggesting that no case could be initiated against President Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts. Legal experts are of the opinion that […]
By Masood Haider NEW YORK: Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years of imprisonment by a US federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, after she was convicted of firing at US troops in Afghanistan while in their custody and other six charges brought against her. Her lawyers had requested a sentence of 12 […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern over the forced marriages of two minor girls on an order of a jirga and demanded stern action against the culprits. In a statement issued on Thursday, the HRCP observed that the holding of a jirga had already been declared illegal by the Sindh High […]
KARACHI: Four of the six militants who were involved in the armed raid on Pakistan?s Naval air base have been eliminated in the retaliatory operation by the security forces while two managed to escape, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said here Monday. He put the number of martyred armed forces personnel at 10 and the injured […]
By Faiza Ilyas KARACHI: An increasing number of cases of sexual abuse involving children are being reported in the city and in many of these cases, the children were found to be subjected to severe physical harm, causing death in some instances. Data of the first six months of the current year shows that a […]
SWAT: Despite the mobilisation of global and domestic NGOs, philanthropic organisations, widows remain the worst-affected and most deserving group of flood survivors. Women, who have lost their spouses either to devastating floods or terrorism, helplessly await the delivery of humanitarian aid after having lost hope about getting any help from the government. Dilfaroza, a 60-year-old […]
KARACHI: Veteran journalist Abul Akhyar passed away on Wednesday evening in a local hospital. He was 83. His Namaz-i-Janaza will be offered after Zuhr prayers at Jamia Mosque, Hadi Market, Nazimabad, on Thursday. He will be laid to rest at Sakhi Hasan graveyard. Mr Akhyar has left behind five sons and a large number of […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association (PFEA) Punjab has pleaded for abolition of entertainment tax on foreign movies, causing undue hurdles in entertaining the cine-goers. Zoraiz Lashari, Chairman PFEA Punjab urged the Chief Minister Punjab to remove 65 percent entertainment tax in a press conference held at the Lahore Press Club. He was accompanied by Vice […]
THE power of the electronic media can’t be ignored. You believe what you see instantly on TV, if it’s aired on a credible TV channel. Therefore, I strongly feel the need for some really competitive TV channels from our side of the world that can be globally viewed and acknowledged. There should be more television […]
THE power of the electronic media canÂ’t be ignored. You believe what you see instantly on TV, if it’s aired on a credible TV channel. Therefore, I strongly feel the need for some really competitive TV channels from our side of the world that can be globally viewed and acknowledged. There should be more television […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said accountability shall be carried out across the board and the government and opposition will adopt the accountability bill with consensus. “I shall support the accountability bill. Accountability should be across the board including politicians, the judiciary, armed forces and bureaucrats,” he said in the National Assembly […]
NAWABSHAH: A rape victim was attacked while going to hospital for a check-up in the vehicle of Women Crisis Centre along with their staff members. The incident took place in a village near Sakrand on Tuesday. Attackers couldn’t succeed in their mission and had to flee as people present in the vehicle began shouting for […]
Omar Bilal Akhtar Watching our local music channels on TV makes me want to find a blunt object and pay someone to slowly beat me to death with it. First of all, you can’t call them music channels at all — at best their shows can be described as ‘time spent between advertisements’. Now, for […]
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