By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Contrary to what many art lovers think, drawing or interpreting city life is not an easy undertaking. Some suggest that while painting landscapes one has to have the sense of bucolic bliss as well as profound admiration for nature. True. But urban life is as integral a part of nature as […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s federal cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft law to establish a new counter terrorism body aimed at better coordinating efforts to defeat Taliban and al Qaeda-linked violence, a minister said. Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said the main objective was to defeat terrorism, but he provided no details on exactly how the new […]
IF certain sections of the media were still attempting to justify the TTP’s agenda or divert attention from it, the attempt on television anchor Hamid Mir’s life should leave no journalist or media outlet with any excuse to continue serving as apologists for the Pakistani Taliban. The TTP’s claim that it was behind the attack […]
By: SHAKEEL NIZAMANI I AM a Canadian citizen. I got my National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (NICOP) for two of my children from the local Nadra office in Tando Allahyar district. To my surprise, after all documentation there were gross errors in both NICOP. One had the wrong birth date and the other had […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Ifikhar Hussain has called for granting women due status and economic opportunities to ensure development of the country. Speaking at a seminar on ‘violence against women’ organised by White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan at Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, the minister said women were integral part of the society, […]
By: Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: “These canvases portray the joy and contentment, bestowed by the inexhaustible beauty of nature’s infinite forms,” said one art connoisseur, visiting Satrang Gallery The gallery is exhibiting a collection of paintings under the title ‘Bend in the Scapes’; a collection of art pieces by various artists, focusing on the beauty found […]
By: Malik Asad RAWALPINDI: A judge of the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court had an unusually large number of petitions against the army establishment fixed for hearing on Wednesday. He could hear only eight of them and put off the rest to some other time. Petitioners and their counsel were surprised by the […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association held its annual general meeting here on Wednesday in the presence of the Nazir of the Sindh High Court, Mr Naveed Ahmed Soomro. It was attended by a majority of members of the association. After the meeting, the board of the association unanimously elected office-bearers for the year 2012-2013 — […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: A key witness in the Arsalan Iftikhar-Malik Riaz case, Ahmed Khalil, has submitted three letters to the Shoaib Suddle Commission, one of them requesting it to allow live media coverage of its proceedings. Sources told Dawn on Wednesday that Mr Khalil did not get his statement recorded before the commission […]
By: NISAR RASOOL THIS is with reference to a news report on floods in Sindh (Nov 21). According to the report, about 5,000 children of 26 rain-hit villages in Dadu district have not gone to their respective schools in the past three months. The reason was that the schools of these villages/areas were closed down […]
LAHORE: Voicing its concern at and condemnation of the attempt to assassinate senior journalist Hamid Mir, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for effective measures to guarantee journalists’ fullest possible security. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the commission said: “The bid to target senior journalist Hamid Mir raises quite a […]
KARACHI: The editors and senior journalists from different national newspapers, representatives of civil society organisations and the journalists working in conflict areas speaking at a roundtable discussion on ‘Print Media Coverage on Conflicts’ here Wednesday called for balanced reporting for minimising the threat to the life of journalists working in conflict zones. The participants of […]
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