By: Farzana Baduel Pakistan can trace its cultural history back throughout the millennia – from the Indus Civilisation of 8000BC through the Gandhara, Sikh and British periods right up to our Independence and beyond. We are a country blessed with breath-taking natural beauty, a rich, vibrant culture and a warm, welcoming people. Unfortunately, ask somebody […]
By: Quddus Mirza French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his book Writing and Difference writes about the nature of language and how one can decipher the real meaning of word, not by understanding that particular word, but by discarding all other options closer to it. For instance, how do you distinguish between a woman and a […]
By: Sarwat Ali The books published on cinema in India have been on the increase. In the beginning, the printed material revolved around scandals and most of the stuff was purely sensational but, with the passage of time, as the profile of the industry has become bigger, the writings too are more varied and diverse. […]
By: Adnan Rehmat Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. Over 90 journalists in Pakistan have found this out to their mortal peril over the past 12 years. Dozens of others face this serious risk on a daily basis as they go about their professional work. The case of Hamid Mir is more serious than […]
By: Faisal Kamal Pasha ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) Chairman Raja Muhammad Shafqat Abbasi has said that an appointment committee, comprising members from the APNS, CPNE, PFUJ and Pakistan Bar Council chairman, make appointments in the Council. “We publish the advertisement for appointments after seeking consent from all these members and as far as […]
By: Sidrah Roghay Karachi: Rape leaves the victim traumatised for a long time. Some victims are so shocked that they cannot think straight what course of action they should take to get the culprit punished. So what should a woman do if she is raped? Such victims should preserve their clothes, not take a bath […]
By: Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Human Rights Day on December 10 ceremony will be dedicated to Malala Yousafzai at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (Unesco) headquarters in Paris. The organisation has decided to hold mega events on the occasion that will be attended by several world leaders including Pakistan’s President, […]
By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: Taking serious notice of The News report, Prime Minister Pervaiz Asharf has decided to review the flawed Pemra Content Regulation 2012, which are secular in nature and do not even mention Islam, Islamic values, the ideology and defence of Pakistan. His spokesman Shafqat Jalil told this correspondent that a high level […]
Karachi: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain has called upon the muftis and leading religious scholars of Pakistan to condemn the cowardly Taliban attack on the daughter of the nation, Malala Yousufzai. Addressing the muftis, including the grand mufti of Pakistan and religious scholars, Hussain said that he would be left with no other […]
By: Gulshad Ahmed Shaikh Previously, the field of Mass Communications was often misunderstood by the candidates applying for admissions in a university. Mass Communications has been a subject of social sciences (in past Arts), but most of the candidates at the time of filling the options in the admission form thought of it as a […]
ISLAMABAD: A judicial or executive order was not enough to launch a controversial project like the Kalabagh dam, the prime minister said on Saturday. “Projects of national import are executed only after thrashing out a consensus of all stakeholders,” Raja Pervez Ashraf said in reply to a question about the Lahore High Court’s verdict ordering […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take suo motu notice of the Lahore High Court’s judgment ordering the federal government to construct Kalabagh Dam. “The Supreme Court should take suo motu notice and declare the judgment null and void,” said provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain while speaking […]
FAISALABAD: Gulberg police allegedly tortured on Saturday a woman and hanged her from a ceiling by tying her arms for stealing Rs5,000 about nine months ago. A man identified as Abdullah took Rukaya, wife of Akbar of Baowala, to Gulberg police station on Saturday and alleged that she had stolen Rs5,000 from his house some […]
KARACHI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is the most dangerous place for journalists in Pakistan, where 14 journalists were killed in the line of duty during last 11 years. Balochistan with the murders of 14 journalists during the same period ranked second, followed by Sindh with 9 killings, FATA with 8, Punjab with 3 and federal capital […]
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