HYDERABAD: Noted writer and playwright Shoukat Hussain Shoro has underscored that by imparting quality training promising results could be obtained from any field of activity. In the past seldom attention was paid towards an organized training of writers, Shoro observed while addressing the closing ceremony of a three-day workshop organized by Natkhat Publications here on […]
KARACHI: The students of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) organised a panel discussion on women’s rights. The panellists included noted scholar Dr Sabiha Qadri, well-known social worker Musarrat Misbah, and anchorperson Hina Bayat. Uzma Al-Karim was the moderator, says an announcement of the institution on Thursday. It said dialogues unfolded […]
By Mushtaq Gaadi WE live in times when political events and conflicts are not simply reported but also enacted and performed in the media. The mass media, especially television journalism, is now intricately implicated in structures of dominance and political conflicts. The latest example of such ‘mediatised’ conflicts was the clash between the government and […]
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar The media continues to polarise opinion in Pakistani society. On the one side are those who insist that the media — and particularly television journalism — has started to play a revolutionary role in mobilising the public against abuses of power. The euphoria was initially generated by TV anchors and roaming reporters […]
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By Mushtaq Gaadi WE live in times when political events and conflicts are not simply reported but also enacted and performed in the media. The mass media, especially television journalism, is now intricately implicated in structures of dominance and political conflicts. The latest example of such ‘mediatised’ conflicts was the clash between the government and […]
KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday directed all banks to start payment of pension through their branch network from Jan. 1, 2011. This arrangement will go a long way in mitigating the problems being faced by elderly pensioners, SBP said. According to a circular, all banks have been advised by SBP to make […]
DADU: Children are the hardest-hit in post-flood situation as their educational process is totally suspended and they are also facing the threat of waterborne diseases, all because of the delay in beginning rehabilitation work. These observations were made by the three-member delegation of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Thursday while visiting Khairpur Nathan […]
SUKKUR: A married woman was lodged in Darul Amaan on Thursday under court orders after she complained that her husband was planning to kill her with the help of his brothers at the pretext of karo-kari and her parents were also spurring him to fulfil the evil design. Ms Sughra Jatoi had reached women police […]
SHC orders police to register second FIR against him SUKKUR: The Sindh High Court Sukkur bench ordered the Ubaro police to register an FIR against Mehrab Khambhra and his accomplices for allegedly kidnapping his wife, Hajani Khambra. Hajani had earlier filed a petition against the tribal council that had declared she was a kari. According […]
ISLAMABAD: Horrifying figures of sexual violence were placed before the National Assembly on Thursday according to which the situation in Punjab was worse where 1,835 rape cases in 2009 and 1,415 cases during 2010 upto August have been registered. In the record presented in reply to a question of ANP legislator Bushra Gohar, Minister for […]
By Imtiaz Ali Karachi: The Pakistan People’s Party’s parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly, Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, told the House proceedings on Thursday that a woman had been recently killed in Dadu district by her brother-in-law over discovering a missed call on her cell phone. The PPP leader was speaking on a resolution moved by Kalsoom Chandio […]
Karachi: Veteran journalist and former student leader Iqbal Jafri died on Thursday in Islamabad after a protracted illness. He was 72 and he leaves behind a widow and three sons. His burial will be held in Karachi on Friday (today). During his four decades long journalistic career he worked for BBC, American news agency AP […]
By Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The finance department of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) fudged figures to show an operational loss of Rs 930 million sustained in 2008-2009 as a profit of Rs 70 million, the newly appointed managing director alleged on Thursday. Yousuf Baig Mirza told reporters during an informal chat at PTV headquarters that […]
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