By Peerzada Salman KARACHI: It is sad and a matter of concern that not many people visit museums and galleries where personal belongings and works of our national leaders, writers and intellectuals are put on display. A similar situation was witnessed at the National Museum of Pakistan on Iqbal Day (Tuesday) when objects related to, […]
By Haris Hanif KARACHI: The responsibility of media is to inform people instead of playing the role of a judge and it should perform responsibly, leaving the judgment to the people, said Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology Mass Communication Department ex-vice chairman Prof Tauseef Ahmed. He said this at a meeting titled […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: The federal government will bear, till June next year, the expenses of the ministries and departments to be transferred to the provinces under the 18th Amendment. According to sources, the decision was taken on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Commission on Implementation of the 18th Amendment after Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa expressed […]
ISHFAQULLAH SHAWL ISLAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has started the process of providing Watan Cards to widows flood-ravaged areas and so far 90,000 widows were given Watan Cards, said Tariq Malik, Deputy Chairman, Nadra here on Tuesday, while talking to Business Recorder. There are about 102,000 widows among flood affectees who will be […]
Karachi: Proper medico-legal procedures greatly help in provision of justice to the survivors of abuse and violence, especially women and children, and malpractices in medico-legal procedure rob the affected people of swift justice, said Lawyers of Human Rights and Legal Aid (LHRLA) President Zia Ahmed Awan. He was speaking at a data-sharing seminar on the […]
By Rabia Ali Karachi: Every time 28-year-old Shireena Yasmeen looks at herself in the mirror, she feels like smashing it into several pieces. Each time, the reflection in the mirror is not of Yasmeen’s charismatic Bengali features, but of a face disfigured by her husband’s acid attack. Now lodged at the Panah shelter home, Yasmeen […]
By: Khalid Malik LAHORE – National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has blocked the online computerised birth and death certificate system of a number of union councils of the city on account of non-payment of outstanding dues of special papers, sources informed TheNation on Tuesday. Nadra authorities blocked the entire system of 70 union councils […]
Bol passed by Censor Board Karachi: The new film Bol by the director of historic film Khudda Kay Liyae is passed by the censor board. The censor show was arranged at Sozo World Cinema in which the vice chairman of censor board Ashraf Gondal participated specialy. After censor it is expected that the film will […]
By Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: The torture and abduction of ‘The News’ senior journalist Umar Cheema has now echoed in Washington with the most senior member of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richard G Lugar, in a secret letter to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, has expressed concerns on behalf of the US Congress regarding this […]
By Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: The newly-elected president of South Asia Free Media Association (Safma) Nusrat Javed has asked President Asif Ali Zardari that his party’s decision to boycott the Geo and Jang Group is a wrong and conveys a negative message. “During the recent meeting of Safma journalists, I have asked President Zardari that he […]
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