I came away from the movie understanding my country much better than I had when I went in. By Bina Shah The writer is an author, most recently of Slum Child (2010). She has written for numerous publications including Dawn, The Friday Times and Chowk Saving Face is one of the most difficult movies I’ve […]
HYDERABAD: The ministry of culture is publishing ‘Makala aein Mazmon’ of the late Aziz Jafrani and is establishing a public library in the writer’s name in Sujawal, announced Sassui Palijo. A memorial evening was held in his honour at High School Sujawal, said a press release on Tuesday. Minister Palijo eulogised the services of the […]
PESHAWAR: Chinese companies will help Pakistan Television Corporation to achieve the target of digitising of its telecast system by 2015, which is obligations of the international telecom body, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Thaimoor Azmat informed the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday. Giving details, he said PTV Administration contacted some Chinese companies […]
ISLAMABAD: Media Coordin-ator to Prime Minster, Khawaja Rizwan Alam on Wednesday termed the opposition parties’ demand for Yousuf Raza Gilani’s resignation “unjustified” and against the law. Talking to newsmen during his visit to Karachi Press Club (KPC), Khawaja Rizwan said the opposition parties should play their role in accordance with the country’s Constitution. He said […]
* Exhibition entitled ‘Shahid Sajjad’ featuring artistic work of the acclaimed artist also held By Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Renowned senior photographer and author Arif Mehmood has launched a unique book through an exhibition entitled ‘Shahid Sajjad’ that featured artistic work of the acclaimed artist Sajjad and his introduction besides Zehra Aapa also wrote poetries of […]
Karachi: The body of a young woman who gang-raped and then strangled to death was found in her residence in the New Karachi Industrial Area police limits on Wednesday. When Afzal, the husband of 25-year-old Rizwana Khatoon, returned home in Sector C-5/F in the evening he found his wife dead. He informed police, who carried […]
Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) President, Syed Sarmad Ali, and some of his colleagues in the organization had a pleasant chance meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani here on Wednesday evening at a local hotel when the prime minister came out on conclusion of an award distribution ceremony. […]
ISLAMABAD: The mega scam in purchasing equipment for the state-owned Pakistan Television echoed in the Public Accounts Committee Wednesday when a PPP lawmaker, Noor Alam Khan, claimed he could prove that $1.5 million were taken as commission for moving the file. During the PAC meeting Noor Alam Khan enquired from secretary information and broadcasting Taimoor […]
F.S.Aijazuddin WHAT was a Czech violinist Jaroslav Sveceny doing in Lahore recently? Was he just another Raymond Davis-type of subversive, camouflaging his weaponry like an Italian mafia hit man in a violin case? Or was he something more sinister, a musical reactionary intent on disturbing our cultural complacency? The moment Sveceny tucked his prized violin […]
ISLAMABAD: Women police officers should be provided level-playing field by giving them appropriate training and empowering them. Niaz Ahmad Siddiqui, former IGP Punjab, said this on Wednesday while addressing a seminar ‘Women police as change agents and gender-based police reforms’ organised by Individualland Pakistan with the support of Royal Norwegian Embassy. He said: “The police […]
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