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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Maternal health care for flood-hit women

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is providing comprehensive reproductive health care services even one year after the devastating flood that hit the vast areas of the country as part of its humanitarian response. According to a press release issued here on Sunday, the fund`s immediate response after the flood was to support basic […]


Commissioner system: Sindh govt to get property tax

By Muzaffar Qureshi KARACHI: With the revival of the commissioner system in Sindh, all proceeds of the property tax have been transferred to the department of excise and taxation with effect from July 1, 2011. The department had already been collecting property tax on behalf of the City District Government Karachi since the introduction of […]


Attack on Geo, Jang offices condemned

MARDAN: Office-bearers of the Mardan Press Club on Sunday condemned the attacks on the offices of Geo News and Daily Jang in Karachi. The members of the club held a meeting, which was presided over by its general secretary Muhammad Riaz Mayar. Addressing the meeting, the speakers including Ashraf Khan, Abdul Sattar, Parveez Shaheen and […]


Attacks on Jang, Geo in some Sindh cities continue

SAKRAND/THAREE MIR WAH/MAHYER/PUDEIDEN: Activists of a linguistic organisation burnt a few copies of the daily Jang after snatching them from hawkers and also interrupted telecasts of Geo News channel for a while in some areas of interior Sindh on Sunday. The miscreants burnt a few copies of daily Jang and Akhbar-e-Jehan in Sakrand while the […]


Journalists protest attack on Jang, Geo

BANNU/SHERGARH: Journalists of Takht Bhai and Sher Garh in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa staged demonstrations outside their respective press clubs to condemn attacks on the offices of Geo TV and daily Jang and the burning of a few newspaper bundles. Chairman Shergarh press club, Fazl Hadi, said journalists from all over the country would raise their voice […]


New timings for KPC clinic during Ramazan

KARACHI: The Karachi Press Club (KPC) Clinic, providing medical assistance to journalists and their respective families will remain open from 15:00 hours to 17:30 hours, daily except Sundays, during Ramazan. KPC Secretary, Moosa Kaleem said the clinic was established in May this year with the support of Sindh Health Department and in collaboration with Association […]


Only 7 million people have CNICs in Karachi: Nadra

Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) claims to have issued computerised national identity cards (CNICs) to more than seven million people in Karachi, but independent observers estimate that 50 percent of the people are living without CNICs in the city. Among old inhabitants of Karachi, the majority of foreigners who […]


Small firms dominate Pakistan’s IT skyline

By Kazim Alam KARACHI: Unlike its neighbour India — whose information technology industry is dominated by large, world-renowned firms — Pakistan’s IT sector consists of a web of small firms, many of which are started by entrepreneurs encouraged by the low barriers to entry in the business. “You no longer need family money or a […]


`Social history is told through film`

By Madeeha Syed KARACHI: Filmmaking is the best way to tell a story, probably because you don’t have to be literate to enjoy one and it’s mass media, said film director Sabiha Sumar at a session of Reel Talks here on Thursday. She said one needed to have an understanding of technicalities such as how […]