KARACHI: A documentary highlighting the issue of honour killings in Pakistan was screened at T2F on Sunday. It was part of a programme titled ‘The honour deception — celebrating women’ organised to bring to light the cases of mistaken honour crimes. The 16-minute film, directed by Aisha Gazdar, begins with the assertion that European and […]
QUETTA: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the growing incidents of kidnapping for ransom in Balochistan and called upon the government to take action against those responsible. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, HRCP vice chairman Tahir Hussain said that with each passing day the law and order situation […]
DADU: A young woman was strangled in the village of Kaloo Loond near here on Sunday. The body of 20-year-old Kaiman was brought to the Civil Hospital of Dadu by her father Essa for autopsy. Talking to reporters, Mr Essa accused the woman’s husband Sikandar and father in-law Urs of killing her because of a […]
Sir: This is with reference to a news item, ‘CPJ calls for protecting online journalists’ (Daily Times, February 23, 2012). As per the report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged that a global coalition against censorship is needed to protect online journalists and bloggers who are being targeted by repressive governments. I agree […]
ISLAMABAD: Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Saturday that the government did not intend to curb media freedom as democracy and media independence went hand in hand. In a statement, she said the government wanted to empower the media to strengthen democracy, but the media without law and democracy could not […]
Sidrah Roghay Karachi: Sold for a mere 9,500 rupees for a year by her own mother to a woman in Karachi, Abida aged seven, suffered immense physical torture for at least three weeks, before police rescued her in a raid on an apartment building in the Gulberg area of the city. After hearing repeated screams […]
Ayesha Shahid ISLAMABAD: The mood was enthusiastic in the Brazilian embassy on the first day of the Brazilian Film Festival which began here on Saturday and will continue till March 4. First of its kind to be organised by the Brazilian embassy, the festival has gotten a good response from Islooites who were present in […]
Army shows ire at the Human Rights Watch report which criticised the judicial commission’s findings on the murder of Saleem Shahzad By Amir Mir The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) continues to face the rage of national and international human rights and media groups. The Judicial Commission investigating the May 2011 assassination of a senior journalist, Syed […]
LGS stages another play Johnny and Dead and the performance was admirable By Aamir Tariq Students of Lahore Grammar School (Cantt) performed the play Johnny and the Dead by Terry Prachett. The performance that started on Feb 17 lasted three days. It was presented by Real Entertainment Productions (REP) and directed by Sanwal Tariq and […]
No testimony is required to dispute the authority of Nayyar Ali Dada, an architect, environmentalist, an activist and above all a great brain whose services in the field of architecture is acknowledged beyond any doubt. “The environmental problems of the world have compounded because of the negative effects of global warming which is mainly because […]
The blackout of news from and about Balochistan is now being viewed as an integral part of the broader conflict — as if the media is responsible for the ignorance of the rest of the country about the province By Malik Siraj Akbar The previously overlooked fury in Balochistan against the mainstream media has gradually […]
By Asmat Zubair & Muhammad Saleh Zaafir KARACHI: The beleaguered PPP government in its final days, just like former dictator Pervez Musharraf, is all set to launch a war against the media in order to manipulate the forthcoming general elections by issuing new regulations through the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to ‘regulate’ the […]
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) late Friday night warned private TV channels against holding programmes and talk shows on Balochistan issue highlighting views of some disgruntled Baloch Sardars without any editorial control. In a letter to private TV channels it termed such debates against sovereignty and integrity of Pakistan. It says such programmes […]
KARACHI: A suspected midwife was on Friday remanded in police custody for one day in the five foetuses case. The suspect, Nuzhat Aslam, said to be posing as a lady doctor, was arrested on Thursday at her clinic in Chakra Goth in connection with the case of five foetuses found in a garbage dump in […]
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