By Shoaib Ahmed & Majeed Gill LAHORE/BAHAWALPUR: Noted stage comedian Murtaza Hasan, widely known as Mastana, died after a protracted illness at Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) on Monday. He was 69. Mastana, survived by a widow and a son, was a Hepatitis-C patient, and was hospitalised some 20 days ago in critical condition after, according […]
Muhammad Anis ISLAMABAD: The closure of Geo Super and victimisation of the Jang Group echoed in the National Assembly on Monday when the Leader of the Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in his speech condemned the closure of Geo Super, saying his party would continue its protest against such undemocratic actions. “The government wants permanent […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has drawn up a tentative list of foreign channels that can be shown by the cable operators, an official said. He said the list was drawn up after series of complaints by customers that the cable operators were showing foreign channels that played indecent programmes, which did not […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court directed the Ministry of Interior to file comments on the Independent Music Group’s petition for issuance of a satellite media licence to its sports channel Geo Super. Petitioners Independent Music Group submitted in the petition that an application has been moved to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) for […]
hmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday night announced a mega package for the cable operators. At a late night meeting between the cable operators and Federal Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, the tariff on in-house CD channels was cut in half, the fee Pemra charges from the operators was reduced and per subscriber […]
LAHORE: A 30-year-old woman and her 35-year-old husband were shot dead allegedly by the woman`s lover over the custody of a six-month-old child in Kamahan village on Kamahan Road on Monday. Nishtar Colony police said Murtaza, a resident of Tandlianwala, came to the house of Muhammad Nawaz to take custody of “his six-month old child […]
By Bhagwandas KARACHI: Rights activists at a convention on Monday demanded that the government formulate a national policy for home-based workers (HBWs) and legislate to recognise them as workers so that they also benefited from various social welfare schemes of the government. They were speaking at the first convention of the Home-Based Women Workers Federation, […]
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