KARACHI – Newly-elected Senator Barrister Farogh Naseem has said that education and training polish the talents of human beings, so this is must to train government servants to get better performance from them. He was addressing to participants of a workshop on Social Media Awareness held by City Institute of Image Management KMC. He said […]
PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that success of Awami National Party candidates in the Senate elections in Mardan has proved that ANP was the major political force in the province. He said success of Muhammad Azam Khan Hoti in Senate election would cast a longlasting impact on the […]
In our country there has been a media revolution so to speak. Several news channels and newspapers have opened up and all of them have played an important role in development and progress of society in a number of ways. However, there are certain issues like for instance the persecution of journalists themselves at the […]
KARACHI: It was in December last year that William Lawrie, the co-owner of a gallery in Dubai, was so inspired by an art catalogue that he decided to visit the country to check out its art scene. “I have seen thousands of catalogues in my life but the one on Rising Tide at Mohatta Palace […]
By Umer Nangiana ISLAMABAD: The Secretariat police on Friday booked Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti, grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Bugti, along with five officials of the Punjab police in his security protocol, for thrashing and giving life threats to two journalists at a local hotel on Thursday. Bugti, also chief of the Balochistan chapter of […]
President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday reiterated the government’s commitment to continue working for the development of media in the country and upholding freedom of information. He said that the democratically elected government considers media as an important instrument for the strengthening of democracy and would continue to facilitate media in its professional pursuits. The […]
Talat Farooq According to The Washington Post, “media censorship is nothing new in Pakistan, where military dictators come and go. But newly proposed rules to ban TV programming deemed ‘against the national interest’ spring from an unlikely source: a civilian government that has prided itself on inching the country towards democracy over the past four […]
Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) at a meeting on Friday adopted a resolution urging the government to repeal the Defamation Act of 2004 in order to provide a conducive atmosphere to media personnel to perform their professional duty in a better way. The council also took a number of other […]
Baqir Sajjad Syed ISLAMABAD: The government has appointed Lt Gen Zahir ul Islam as the next head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the country’s premier intelligence agency, ending speculations about giving another extension to Lt Gen Shuja Pasha. “Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has appointed Lt General Zahir ul Islam as new Director General Inter […]
Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: Two days after condemning with one voice enforced disappearances in the country and calling for an end to them, the Senate on Friday took a more concrete step by suggesting the creation of a human rights court in the federal capital. It did so by enlarging the scope of a bill […]
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