Lahore: On the occasion of the international day of action against Internet censorship, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisation, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), have expressed deep concern over an attempt by the Ministry of Information Technology in Pakistan to further restrict freedom of expression, creativity and peaceful […]
KARACHI: Arts Council of Pakistan (ACP), Karachi will organise an appreciation event on Tuesday (today) for a writing composition titled ‘Para Para (Parveen Shakir)’ by renowned writer Nusrat Zehra, said a statement on Monday. According to the statement, noted poet Himayat Ali would preside over the event. Prof Sehar Ansari, Mehtab Akbar Rashidi, Prof Shahid […]
LAHORE: An exhibition of miniature paintings by Tehzib Murad’s began at the Alhamra Arts Gallery on Monday. “I have always been intrigued by the idea that arts has no boundaries and it’s not about being wrong or right. Creating art is an experimental process in which one falters, fails and succeeds. The sense of fulfilment […]
By Azam Khan ISLAMABAD: Some good has come out of Pakistan Peoples Party MPA contender Waheeda Shah’s case of assaulting polling officers. The case which has set a precedent for investigating other disturbing incidents of violence by politicians against civil servants. A similar incident in Sargodha, Punjab, has now pushed the Supreme Court into investigating […]
LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Munir Ahmed has sought comments from the Defence-A station house officer (SHO) for March 15 on a petition filed by an actress seeking a case against a colleague for harassment and threatening behaviour. Petitioner Noureen Ali submitted that she had worked with Muhammad Imran in a television drama serial […]
By Manzoor Ali PESHAWAR: Between Oscar night and March 8 this year women from Pakistan stamped their influence on the US citadels of entertainment and power. Social activist Shad Begum from Lower Dir district took her International Women of Courage Award exactly 11 days after Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy accepted an Academy Award for her documentary […]
KARACHI – Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi chief Afaq Ahmed on Monday made a candid confession that he did receive Rs5 million from Younis Habib to organise the MQM-H. Addressing a joint media briefing with Sindh United Party chief Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah at his residence Haider Manzil, Ahmed alleged that Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain […]
By Hani Taha KARACHI: Reconstruction is as synonymous with fashion as smoke is with fire. Indeed, there can be no creation without an ingenious process of construction and reconstruction, of constant borrowing and building. The most recent effort to create a cultural melange came from British Council, that has managed to bring British fashion to […]
By Jahanzaib Haque The writer is Web Editor of The Express Tribune and tweets @[email protected] There are two opposing narratives being discussed about the government’s call for a national level internet blocking and filtering system, and both must be understood to find a path forward. On the one hand, NGOs, internet monitoring groups, parts of […]
Waseem Ashraf Butt GUJRAT: Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has said there has always been a political wing in the Directorate of Inter Services Intelligence and the prime minister and the president will be informed about the agency’s policies and requirements by newly-appointed ISI Director General Zahirul Islam. Talking to journalists in his office here on […]
Tahir Siddiqui KARACHI: The girl who has become embroiled in a conversion controversy was on Monday sent to a state-run shelter by the Sindh High Court with the direction to its administration not to allow her parents or the man who claims to be her husband to meet her till March 26 when she will […]
ALLEGATIONS of the forced conversion of young Hindu women in Sindh, endorsed by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, bring to light yet again the dilemma faced by the minority Hindu community. Many families say they live in fear and insecurity as reportedly some 20 young girls are said to convert to Islam on a […]
Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: As public pressure mounted, the man accused of killing two sisters in June last year finally surrendered to the police on Monday. However, the police claimed that they arrested the accused. Asad Mehmood, associated with a cooperative bank as a security official, was charged with killing the two sisters, one of whom […]
HYDERABAD: Rich tributes were paid by the writers and intellectuals of Sindh to comrade Taj Mohammad Abro for his struggle in the cause of peasants and workers at his 24th death anniversary organised by the Sindh culture department and Sindhi Language Authority here on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, renowned intellectual and scholar, Mohammad Ibrahim […]
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