By: Hina Mahgul Rind KARACHI: The cellular companies will take legal action if talks fail with the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) over the ban on night packages, said a cellular operator. He added that PTA had not taken this decision this week, it was taken a couple of months earlier; it was an old notification […]
VIENNA: More journalists have been killed this year while on assignment than at any time in the last 15 years, according to the International Press Institute, a Vienna-based media watchdog. A total 119 journalists have died so far, IPI’s Death Watch survey found, exceeding the number of deaths in any year since it started keeping […]
By: Farhad Taimoor The recent shooting of the 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai has sparked an angry reaction across the country, resulting in widespread public outrage against the Taliban militants. Many of us hoped that this incident could lead our society to a consensus against the extremist ideology of these militants, but, unfortunately, all such hopes faded […]
LANDIKOTAL: A tribal journalist was slightly injured and a vehicle of a Khasadar officer was damaged in a roadside bomb explosion on Thursday. In a remote-controlled IED blast in Sadukhel area of Landikotal, journalist Sudhir Ahmad Afridi was slightly injured on his left leg whereas the vehicle of Khyber Khasadar Force Subedar Harkala Khan was […]
By: Michael Spindelegger and Alison Bethel McKenzie Well over 100 journalists have been killed so far this year – the highest number since the International Press Institute (IPI) began keeping count of journalists’ deaths in 1997. All across the world – from Africa, Asia and Europe, to the Middle East and Latin America – journalists […]
By: Shahid Husain Karachi: Pakistan is unlikely to meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) regarding forest coverage because after the 18th Amendment it has become a provincial subject and the Sindh government has its own priorities, law and order being topmost, Benazir Income Support Programme etc, a well-placed source in the ministry of climate change […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The draft legislative bills for the tax amnesty schemes will authorise the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and banks to accept declarations, registration tax, issue receipts and National Tax Numbers, show copies of the two drafts. The name of first scheme is Investment Tax Scheme (ITS 2012) and the second […]
By: Asad A Khan The PTA has done the right thing by banning all night-time free phone packages. The government should also make it compulsory for all TV and cable TV companies to stop broadcasting their transmission at midnight. I say so because Pakistan is the only country where shops and offices do not open […]
RAWALPINDI: Death toll of the suicide attack that occurred in a mourning procession at Dhoke Syedan on Wednesday night has risen to 23. Death toll rose from 16 after the persons, who were critically wounded in the attack, died from their injuries in various hospitals, a police rescue spokeswoman Deeba Shehnaz told AFP.“A total of […]
MINGORA: For one month, the dreams kept coming — the voice, the shots and the blood. Her friend Malala slumped over says a report carried by the Time World. Shazia Ramazan, 13, who was wounded by the same Taliban gunman who shot her friend Malala Yousufzai, returned home last week after a month in a […]
MIRPUR (AJK): The visiting seasoned journalist from Indian-occupied Kashmir Dr Syed Shujaat Bukhari suggested close interaction among Kashmiri journalists from both sides of the line of control to help encouraging the CBMs between Pakistan and India to help resolved the long-standing differences between two arch rivals through peaceful means. He was speaking at a reception […]
By: Harron Siraj SWAT: The citizens of Swat have got deprived of Internet facility, as the Nawakaly Exchange, which has more than 3,500 DSL lines, has got some technical fault, causing disturbance in the said lines. According to details, about 3,000 DSL lines are not working from last one day in Nawakaly Telephone exchange and […]
KHAR: Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Fata chapter, Thursday organised a training workshop for the journalists of Bajaur Agency. A daylong training workshop was held at the newly Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Bajaur office which was attended by a large number of media persons. During the training, the participants were informed about the basics […]
By: Asad Shakeel KARACHI: It is very disappointing that on the one hand, the government has failed miserably to provide jobs and business opportunities to the people and, on the other, it is bent upon destroying businesses which are trying to survive despite many challenges in the country. The government’s recent proposed decision to end […]
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