Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: The meeting of the sub-committee of the NA’s Standing Committee for Information and Broadcasting was held at the Parliament House on Tuesday for reviewing the issue of ban on Geo Super. The meeting was chaired by Convener Ch Saeed Iqbal. Chaudhry Saeed made it clear that the Parliamentary Committee was playing the […]
By Khawar Ghumman and Zulqernain Tahir ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: The government on Monday suspended Zafar Hussain Qureshi, an Additional Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency who was investigating the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) financial scam in which the elder son of federal minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is the main accused. Mr Qureshi was […]
By Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Friends and colleagues shared memories of iconic actor Moin Akhtar, who passed away on April 22, at a condolence reference held in his memory at the Arts Council Karachi on Wednesday. Film actress Zeba in a telephonic speech from Lahore said Moin Akhtar was a like a brother to her and […]
PESHAWAR: The provincial government would soon set up an academy for artists so that they could explore their hidden talent in a more appropriate manner, said Minister for Information and Culture Mian Iftikhar Hussain here on Wednesday. He was addressing a condolence reference, arranged by Cultural Journalists Forum at Peshawar Press Club to pay tributes […]
Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Board will be reconstituted soon as after according to a summary for the purpose, the prime minister has sent it to the president, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said here on Wednesday. The minister told a meeting of the National […]
Azam Ali KARACHI: While issuing a public licence to Geo Super, the only sports channel in Pakistan, the Karachi Bar Association (KBA), Member Sindh Bar Council (SBC), Member Executive Committee Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), and vice chairman Sindh Bar Council have said that the ban on Geo Super was a violation of basic human […]
ABDUL RASHEED AZAD ISLAMABAD: All pictures of Osama bin Laden, shown on print/electronic media have been snapped by Business Recorder Photo-Journalist Mazhar Ali Khan, who is the only photographer in the world who twice met Osama in Afghanistan. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday Mazhar said that first he visited Afghanistan in 1997 along […]
HYDERABAD: Programme Manager of the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme Asim Raza has said that working in collaboration with the National Commission for Human Development his organisation has launched Women Economic Development Project to economically empower women. Under the project, he said, 580 training centres had been set up across the province where poor […]
By Sarfaraz Memon Sakina had converted to Islam and married Chachar from Ghotki. SUKKUR: A woman who had filed a petition for protection after being threatened by her husband was killed on Tuesday allegedly by him. The victims, Sakina Bagri and Haseena, were sisters, and their third sibling, Samina, was also injured in Qalandar Shah […]
Karachi: Pakistan People’s Party Women Wing Sindh Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui on Wednesday called for raising socio-economic empowerment of women by ensuring pro-women legislation, pro-women taxation system, more political participation and lucrative education facilities. Remedial measures are required for enhancing the contribution of women in socio-economic and other spheres of life, besides eliminating all kinds […]
By Shamim-ur-Rahman KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced here on Wednesday that it had decided to rejoin the PPP-led coalition government at the centre. The announcement was made after extensive talks between Interior Minister Rehman Malik and senior MQM leaders, at which decisions taken earlier in such meetings were fine-tuned, a source said. Talking to […]
By Mukhtar Alam KARACHI: Non-governmental organisations have urged the federal and provincial governments and civil society to take steps to ensure that every child starts primary education at the age of five years. Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday at the press club, leaders of various NGOs and foundations, led by the executive […]
Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The federal government released Rs120 billion to the power sector to clear backlog of piled up subsidies of the last financial year 2009-10 that would now help generate around 2,000 megawatt (MW) electricity at a time of existing shortages of 7,200 MW, it is learnt. “We have made hectic efforts to reconcile […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has suggested to the Ministry of Information Technology to ban those handsets at Customs stage that do not have IMEI numbers and stop their sale in the country. Chairman PTA Dr Mohammad Yaseen, while talking to reporters at Connect ICT Forum 2011 at Karachi Expo Centre on Wednesday, said that […]
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