By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: The recent controversial appointment of chairman PTA, the removal of CEO of the extremely wealthy Universal Service Fund (USF) and his replacement by the son of a close confidante of the top-most rulers and the appointment of member law in the Ministry of Information Technology — all these administrative changes make […]
By: Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: Amnesty International has alleged in a new report that millions of people in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas are locked in perpetual lawlessness where human rights abuses are allegedly being committed by the Taliban as well as the armed forces. The News has seen exclusively the new report titled: “The Hands […]
Karachi: Sarmad Ali, President, Masood Hamid, Secretary General and office Bearers of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have expressed their profound grief on the sad demise of Gulbano Hasan Ali Lakhani, mother of Sultan Ali Lakhani, Publisher of Century Publications (Pvt.) Ltd. The APNS office bearers condoled with Sultan Ali Lakhani on behalf of members […]
By: Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: Enough is enough. The government decided on Wednesday to ‘combat’ what it called a deliberate and vicious media campaign against the ruling Pakistan People’s Party. The federal cabinet formed a four-member committee comprising ministers for information, defence, law and finance to come up with a report within a fortnight on allegations […]
By: Mohammad Ashfaq PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet has approved revival of old local bodies system and the related posts of commissioner, deputy commissioner and executive magistrate. Briefing media persons about the cabinet meeting here on Wednesday, Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that after revival of the old magistracy system the office of district […]
By: Khalilur Rehman Bacha MINGORA: Scores of students on mounted a demonstration in protest against the renaming of their college in Saidu Sharif as the “Government Post-Graduate Malala Yousufzai College for Girls” and set a three-day deadline for the reversal of the decision. A group of students resorted to hurling stones at and tearing up […]
KARACHI: The National Database and Registration Authority will set up an executive office at the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry for the convenience of Kati members and industrialists. This was announced by Sindh Nadra director general Jawed Iqbal Khan at a meeting with the Kati office-bearers and members on Tuesday. He announced registering of […]
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians from Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on Wednesday there should not be supremacy of any third country in the region before and after the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in 2014. In a joint declaration adopted at the conclusion of the seventh round of two-day bilateral parliamentary dialogue facilitated by the Pakistan Institute […]
KARACHI: Haroon House, the main office of the Dawn Media Group, has been without power since 3pm on Tuesday and running on generators ever since. According to a senior official in Dawn, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) was informed about the problem soon after it happened and they have been trying to fix it […]
KARACHI: A group exhibition of collaborative works by 67 artists opens at Koel Gallery on Thursday at 5pm. The show titled “Ussman aur Mein” will remain open till Dec 22, daily from 11am to 8pm. Dawn
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: One noteworthy aspect of great artists’ drawings is that the quick, free-flowing lines do not come across as a result of the mastery they have over their art but appear as an integral part of their subject. Their effort gives no indication of work done in haste or something on which […]
By: Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: As a perceived waywardness of Pakistan’s electronic media came in focus in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said the government wanted to bring a new law, possibly to deal with questions of morality. He did not elaborate his remark, apparently made in passing, after […]
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