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Daily Archives: December 8, 2010

‘Pak-Afghan joint media strategy can be evolved to fight terrorism’

ISLAMABAD: New avenues can be explored to evolve a Pak-Afghan joint media strategy to fight terrorism and to change the extremist mindset. The was said in a meeting between Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira and his Afghan counterpart Dr Sayed Makhdoom Raheen who called on him, along with an Afghan media […]


Eighteen years later, singer Shazia Khushk still enthrals

KARACHI: Even though she made her debut in 1992, folk singer Shazia Khushk continues to be one of Sindh’s most eminent mainstream musicians. At a two-day cultural event organised in Karachi, Khushk performed one of her most memorable songs “Mera Udheta Pakhiyara Kadi Aao Na Maare Das” (O my flying bird come to my village […]


There is absolutely ‘no honour’ in killing

KARACHI: Conventional wisdom brackets artists as elitists, people least concerned with the issues that plague the common person. Inflation, domestic violence and living on the bare necessities do not worry them. In reality, though, Pakistan’s artists pitch in whenever they can. And on Monday some of them joined hands to launch an exhibition “No honour […]


Eighteen years later, singer Shazia Khushk still enthrals

KARACHI: Even though she made her debut in 1992, folk singer Shazia Khushk continues to be one of Sindh’s most eminent mainstream musicians. At a two-day cultural event organised in Karachi, Khushk performed one of her most memorable songs “Mera Udheta Pakhiyara Kadi Aao Na Maare Das” (O my flying bird come to my village […]


‘Pak-Afghan joint media strategy can be evolved to fight terrorism’

ISLAMABAD: New avenues can be explored to evolve a Pak-Afghan joint media strategy to fight terrorism and to change the extremist mindset. The was said in a meeting between Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira and his Afghan counterpart Dr Sayed Makhdoom Raheen who called on him, along with an Afghan media […]