LANDI KOTAL: Two bullet-riddled bodies were found in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency while a woman was killed when a mortar shell hit a house in the same area on Sunday. Sources said that bodies of two persons were spotted by local people in Kohi Sher Haider area on Sunday morning but they could not […]
ABOUT three-and-a-half months after it was imposed, the government announced that the ban on YouTube was finally to be lifted.The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, it said, had now acquired a powerful software firewall to comprehensively block blasphemous online material such as the trailer of an anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, which had led to the ban […]
BY: SYED TASADUQ INSTEAD of protesting and seeking government protectionist regulations against Turkish, Spanish dramas, the United Producer Association (UPA), which represents private television producers and production houses, should compete with foreign dramas by improving their quality and standards, so that the local viewers prefer watching Pakistani dramas rather than Turkish and other foreign soaps. […]
By: Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: The fate of 16 complaints against suspected environmental polluters hangs in the balance as the lone environmental protection tribunal set up in Sindh has not been functional for around six months, it emerged on Sunday. Sources said the tenure of the last chairperson of the Sindh Environmental Protection Tribunal expired in […]
Free Speech Debate is a research project of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at St Antony’s College in the University of Oxford. Free Speech Debate (www.freespeechdebate.com) is a global, multilingual website for the discussion of free speech in the age of globalisation and the internet. Ten draft principles for global free speech […]
LONDON: Senior Pakistani journalist Muhammad Sarwar has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on sexual assault charges after a woman believed to be of Pakistani origin registered a complaint at an East London Police station. Sarwar, chief editor of weekly newspaper The Nation and Kashmir News, was arrested from outside the Lee Bridge Road mosque, […]
LAHORE: South Asia, the most volatile region, mourned the murder of 25 media persons, with Pakistan again remaining on the top with its 13 journalists losing their lives during 2012. This has been stated in the South Asia Media Commission’s (SAMC) Media Monitor 2012 report which was made public by the body’s Secretary General M […]
The story of the Indian paramedical student, brutally gang-raped by six men, after she climbed aboard a bus in New Delhi with a male friend, met a fateful end. The horrendous incident, which triggered violent protests in the Indian capital, had shaken many, demonstrating how unsafe women remained in ‘liberated’ India. But the fact that […]
By: Fazal Khaliq SWAT: The city government of Rome has conferred a peace and humanitarian action award upon child activist Malala Yousafzai, a press release said on Saturday. Last month, Malala was also honoured with honorary citizenship of Rome (Sittadino Romano) and the Ambassador of Pakistan to Italy Tehmina Janjua received the document on her […]
KARACHI: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) President Jamil Ather Qazi and Secretary General Aamer Mahmood have congratulated former senator Syed Faseih Iqbal, editor-in-chief of Urdu newspaper Zamana and English daily Balochistan Times, on receiving honorary degree of doctorate from the Balochistan governor and chancellor of Balochistan University of IT, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta. […]
The government does not seem to know what it is doing or indeed should do about YouTube. It may be recalled that the government blocked YouTube some time ago on the grounds that the blasphemous material on YouTube was not being removed by the hosts, Google Inc. The material in question was the trailer of […]
By: Sheeba Ajmal The poor girl who was raped in a bus in Delhi passed away. In our country too, stories about gang rapes, especially in the rural areas of Sindh and Punjab, keep appearing in the media. Cases are registered in police stations and news reports are aired on TV channels but hardly any […]
By: Shahzada Irfan Ahmed The fate of 3G licensing in the country seems to be still unclear, as the differences among stakeholders are becoming severer every day. There is difference of opinion over the auction process to be adopted, timing of the launch, hiring of consultants for auction and the proposed terms and conditions the […]
By: Aiman Adnan “The media and the journalists are not the mahatmas of ethics in public life. However, if they are able to inject a note of skepticism in their analyses I think it will have done its job,” said veteran journalist Ayaz Amir, addressing a body of noted as well as aspiring journalists, reporters, […]
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