Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: Once an eminent writer and a leading communist, Syed Sibte Hasan, had observed that Habib Jalib, whose 18th death anniversary falls today, was a poet of the people. Jalib never cared about his future, nor that of his family’s, and fought on relentlessly to change society so that the common man […]
Abdul Sattar Khan LAHORE: The former additional director NCB/Interpol FIA Headquarters, Mirza Sultan Saleem, has not only been sent back to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after he recorded a statement which could implicate Interior Minister Rehman Malik and former FIA DG Waseem Ahmed trying to hinder the probe against Moonis Elahi’s foreign bank accounts, […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: It’s official: the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) have set the seal on their alliance and the Q-League will join the federal cabinet at 7pm on Monday. According to late night announcements on Sunday from the Presidency and by PML-Q leaders, the two parties inked […]
LAHORE: Famed Urdu fiction writer Abdul Hameed passed away early on Friday. He was 83. A. Hameed was admitted to the Jinnah Hospital over a month ago with medical complications like chronic asthma, pneumonia and lung damage. The Punjab government had borne the expenditure of hospital and medicines during his ailment. A. Hameed was born […]
LAHORE: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors conciliation committee head, Majid Nizami, the Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications, has announced a formula for unity within the CPNE. He has called for convening a meeting of the CPNE general body of November 15, 2010, on a 15-day notice, which should elect 35 members […]
BEIJING- As Pakistani journalists panted, a young couple paced past them to reach top of the Great Wall, built by toil of Chinese generation after generation to stave off aggression from the North by Mongols-it now has become one of the 7th Wonders of the world. “What an achievement and a landmark accomplished by the […]
* Ambassador Haqqani says Pakistan, America and Afghanistan working together WASHINGTON: Dismissing media assertions on Islamabad advising Kabul against cooperation with the US, Pakistan’s top diplomat in Washington said quite contrary to such fabrications the three countries are going to hold trilateral talks in early May for progress towards resolution of the Afghan conflict. A […]
KARACHI: At an impressive ceremony held at the spacious lawn of Zar Villa, main Khayaban-e-Hafiz, DHA, to felicitate Mahmudul Aziz, a veteran journalist, on receiving from President Asif Ali Zardari recently at the Presidency in Islamabad, the APNS -‘Life Time Achievement Award, speakers paid tributes to Aziz s outstanding contribution to journalism as Managing Editor […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information, Culture and Transport, Mian Iftikhar Hussein has appreciated the role of media in war against terror, particularly in unveiling the real face of terrorists and isolating them in the society. This he said while addressing the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected cabinet of Lakki Marwat Press Club in Peshawar. […]
Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) acting Chairman Dr Jabbar has conceded that there is a flaw in Pemra law that PTV is kept out of its sphere of rules and regulation which apply to all other private TV channels. Speaking to media persons, he said in his personal view the government […]
AMAR GURIRO KARACHI – The Sindh Health Department plans to establish a dispensary at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) to address the medical needs of journalists and their families. This was announced by Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed on Friday while talking with a five-member delegation of Association of Health Journalists Pakistan (AHJP) at […]
PESHAWAR: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has decided to move a bill in Provincial Assembly to exempt widows, divorced women, special people and small-scale home-based businesses from all taxes. KP Minister for Social Welfare and Women Development, Sitara Ayaz, said this while talking to media men in her office. She said that the provincial […]
Bronwyn Curran As the author of a 2006 book on the Mukhtaran Mai case and a former Islamabad-based Western female news correspondent, I must raise a voice of dissent amidst the shrill reaction to the Supreme Court’s acquittal of 13 of 14 men accused in Mukhtaran Mai’s case. In 2005-2006, after many months painstakingly poring […]
By Atika Rehman The writer is a sub-editor on the web desk of The Express Tribune and is an LLB graduate from the University of London [email protected] If the ruling party gives even an iota of a damn about women’s rights in Pakistan, it must immediately disown from its ranks Jamshed Dasti, a member of […]
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