By Z Ali HYDERABAD: Just like Sindhi cinema that is no longer in existence, the star who took it to its pinnacle in the 1960s and 70s, breathed his last on Thursday. Mushtaq Malano, known by his stage name Mushtaq Changezi, died of a cardiac arrest. The star acted in the lead role of about […]
MUZAFFARGARH – “It really hurt me, if I hear about the acid-throwing incident happen anywhere in the world. So, the win of an Oscar by ‘Saving Face’, truly made my happy, says 26-year-old Rukhsana Yasir, the pivotal character of Academy award-winning documentary, while talking to TheNation en route to Islamabad from Jatoi, Muzaffargarh the other […]
* Distances himself from father’s anti-Muttahida Qaumi Movement stance By Razzak Abro KARACHI: Former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza’s son, Hasnain Mirza replaced his father in the Sindh Assembly (SA) on Thursday but distanced himself from his father’s anti-Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) stance. He told journalists, who eagerly waited for his arrival at the […]
LAHORE: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) condemned the kidnapping and alleged forced conversion to Islam of a Hindu girl, Rinkal, and urged the government to immediately hold a judicial inquiry of the incident. A statement issued by HRCP demanded protection for minorities. According to the statement, “Rinkal D/O Nand Lal, a teenage Hindu girl […]
* PCP chairman says council developing code of conduct for media * Mechanism being evolved to oust corrupt elements from community By Manzoor Qadir ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) Chairman Raja Shafqat Khan Abbasi, while talking to Daily Times exclusively, said that infiltration of media by ‘fake’ journalists was resulting in ‘unethical practices’ and […]
ISLAMABAD: The government should take appropriate measures to ensure the security of journalists, particularly in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to make the slogan of freedom of expression true. Media persons in FATA are facing threat to their lives and honour and even their family members are not safe from militants as well as […]
GUJRANWALA: A CPO office clerk manhandled The News Gujranwala bureau chief Azam Butt for publishing a story about the alleged high-handedness of the police. On Wednesday night, Azam Butt was going to his home after filing stories when Sikandar, the CPO office clerk, stopped him at gunpoint on Bukhari Road, called him names, beat him […]
Shahid Husain Karachi: Fujiyo Tsonemi, a Tokyo-based journalist, captures the life of Muslim women and writes extensively about them. A freelance journalist for the past 10 years, she has been filing stories for magazines like AFRA, Shincho, Yoniuri etc. A Buddhist by birth, she converted to Islam last year and continues to derive inspiration from […]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Dr Abdul Jabbar said that the Pemra is media facilitator and not going to ban any channel. Talking to national TV, he said that Pemra only convoying public complaints to channels and many public complaints received against entertainment material. Replying to a question, he said that the […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday brushed aside the impression that the government was planning to impose curbs on the media. She said the democratic government was committed to media freedom and making all out efforts to expand it. The government has the credit of lifting restrictions on the […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to use military wherever it is necessary for putting an end to sectarian violence in the country. Calling for an impartial probe to apprehend those behind Tuesday’s attack on a bus in which 18 Shia men were killed, the HRCP, in a […]
PESHAWAR: Print and electronic media will be allowed limited coverage of Senate elections in the provincial assembly today (Friday). “We have asked the Election Commission to facilitate media coverage of (Friday proceedings) for some time,” information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said on Thursday when asked whether his government would continue with its 2009 policy of […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: An interesting experimental (as the organisers called it) performance titled helped the National Academy ostival off to a good start at the academy’s in-house theatre on Thursday. Hoon Muntazir Mein, directed by Napa manager special projects , was presented by the academy’s theatre arts graduating class of 2012. The four characters in […]
Apropos of letters by worthy readers against the recommendation by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Broadcasting and Information to charge two per cent on mobile recharge as radio levy and a one-time Rs4,000 on new vehicles, I find no weight in opposition to this move. One point that every writer emphasises is that Radio […]
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