National Broadcasting Service of Radio Pakistan aired special programme to pay tributes to Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Saturday night. Talking in Nai Ufaq program of Radio Pakistan‚ PPP leader Jahangir Badar has said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had emerged in politics of Pakistan at the time when there were renowned world leaders like Indira Gandhi‚ […]
By: Abdul Razaque Channa What if you and I are uneducated, have never been to school, do not know how to send and receive text messages and are repeatedly called jahil (illiterate) and andha (blind)? Being illiterate may not kill a person but the feeling of being a jahil does, if not socially, then emotionally […]
By: Umair Ali Anjum KARACHI: Bollywood superstar Juhi Chawla, along with her husband Jai Mehta, is in Karachi to attend a wedding ceremony of her relative. “There is resemblance between Karachi and Bombay,” one of her relatives quoted her as saying while she took a tour of the city. Scores of her relatives and fans […]
KARACHI: The fifth women in business conference will be held on January 29, said the chief executive of New World Concepts, Yasmin Hyder, on Saturday. It will be held under the auspices of the Pakistan Society for Training and Development, she added. She also mentioned that a press briefing will be held on January 8 […]
Malala Yousufzai is out of hospital and back at her temporary English home with her parents and two brothers. The 15-year-old, who was shot in the head and neck in October 2012 by an armed militant determined to punish her for her campaign for education for girls, had battled hard for life in the initial […]
By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: Objecting to the airing of foreign content on private TV channels during prime time, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday demanded that the Pakistan Electric Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) should strictly monitor the TV channels and cable operators and take a prompt action in this context. “PTI expresses solidarity with the local […]
By: Zofashan Basit It is time the ban on YouTube was lifted. Why should our nation be denied access to YouTube, a source of information and knowledge to many and also a symbol of free thought and speech, just because of the wrong actions of a few? We need to speak up for our right […]
SKARDU: PPP leader and Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan Sayed Mehdi Shah warned the national and local media men that they should remain within limits, as he was not dependent on media coverage by them. He lashed out at the journalist community while addressing a ceremony to mark the anniversary of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto […]
By: JAMEEL YUSUF MUCH has been printed in the shape of articles and letters in Dawn on abolishing the death sentence. Despite the existing death penalty, the last sunset of 2012 brings to an end the laying to rest of over 6,000 unfortunate victims of terrorism in the past four years in Karachi alone, while […]
MITHI: The provincial ministry of youth affairs has planned a three-day Thar festival here from Jan 10 to Jan 22. The festival would be held in collaboration with the district government of Tharparkar and the National Bank. According to sources in the district government, cash prizes of Rs25,000, Rs15,000 and Rs10,000 for the first, second […]
By: Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON: A US lawmaker, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, is introducing legislation to honour Malala Yousufzai, the girl who earned worldwide admiration for defying a Taliban ban on women’s education. Ms Jackson Lee, Democrat from Texas and chairperson of the Pakistan caucus in the US Congress, wrote a letter to her colleagues on […]
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