By: Arshad Bhatti LAHORE – Despite worst crises facing by the Pakistan film industry, Lollywood’s productions received maximum number of viewers on the three days of Eidul Azha, TheNation learnt on Friday. Lollywood productions including ‘Numbardarni’, directed by Masood Butt and ‘Alyasa Gujar’ produced by Chaudhry Khadim Hussain and directed by Pervez Rana have gone […]
By A.G. Noorani STING operations which the media, print and electronic, conduct, are an offshoot of investigative journalism. Stings exposed corruption among some MPs in Britain and in India. But the police in India want to send to jail journalists who expose wrongdoing by sting operations. On March 13, 2001, the website tehelka.com caught the […]
By Shamim-ur-Rahman KARACHI: The world’s largest ship-based power plant will begin feeding 230 megawatts into the national grid next month, a spokesman for the vessel’s Turkish owner said on Friday. The Kaya Bey, which burns furnace oil, now lies at anchor off the Karachi port. The ship will begin supplying the country with electricity within […]
UNITED NATIONS: Asma Jahangir, Chief of the Supreme Court Bar Association, was named as this year’s winner of a United Nations award that recognises outstanding individual contribution to promoting a culture of human rights around the world, the UN said earlier this week. The Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Irina […]
OKARA: A man and a woman were shot dead in Sadda Singh village late on Tuesday night. Accused Mubarak told the police that he killed his aunt Rehana and Afzaal because they had an extramarital affair. Rehana got married to Safdar Hussain of Matta Singh village about 10 years ago and gave birth to her […]
Karachi: Five persons were killed in separate incidents during the three days of Eid-ul-Azha including two women who were killed by their husbands. One Tasleema, 35, wife of Abdul Majeed, was strangulated to death by her husband on the first day of Eid at the Punjab Colony in Sharifabad police limits, police sources said. Tasleema, […]
LAHORE — Veteran intellectual, researcher and columnist Syed Sibte Hassan Zaigham passed away on Friday due to cardiac arrest. He was 78. The deceased was writer of more than 50 books. He did a lot for the promotion of Punjabi language and won various national awards. Editor-in-Chief TheNation Majid Nizami and a large number of […]
By: Arshad Bhatti LAHORE – Despite worst crises facing by the Pakistan film industry, Lollywood’s productions received maximum number of viewers on the three days of Eidul Azha, TheNation learnt on Friday. Lollywood productions including ‘Numbardarni’, directed by Masood Butt and ‘Alyasa GujarÂ’ produced by Chaudhry Khadim Hussain and directed by Pervez Rana have gone […]
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