• January 16, 2013
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

In the wake of the Quetta bombings in Pakistan last Friday, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today expressed her condolences to the people of Pakistan and urged the national authorities to do their utmost to bring those responsible to justice. According to media reports, more than 95 people were killed in a series of bombings, including […]

• January 16, 2013
• Radio

KARACHI: The organisers of 28th Annual Conference Radiology Society of Pakistan and 6th SAARC Congress of Radiology (SCR-2013) on Tuesday invited radiologists of the country to attend the moot in large numbers. The three-day event, scheduled from February 8 to 10, will include pre-conference workshops on February 7. Daily Times

• January 16, 2013
• General News

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that following the Supreme Court’s (SC) order for the arrest of the prime minister, the threats to democratic dispensation have escalated enormously. The commission said in a statement on Tuesday: “It is difficult to measure the misfortune of the luckless people of Pakistan that their […]

• January 16, 2013
• Information Technology

By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: He came, he saw, but he just could not conquer. Farooq Ahmed Awan was the government’s most-trusted bureaucrat, given the responsibility for taking the third generation (3G) mobile spectrum licencing process to its logical end. His tenure as chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), however, came to an abrupt and […]

• January 16, 2013
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned till Wednesday the hearing of the case regarding irregularities in the advertisement campaign of the Universal Service Fund. The counsel for Midas advertising agency Yaseen Azad maintained that the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules do not apply to his client. The government selects an advertising agency according […]

• January 16, 2013
• New Media, Print Media, Social Media

By: Sidrah Roghay Earl J Wilkinson says youngsters today expect ‘news to walk to them’; unless a news story is trending on social media they refuse to read it Back when Earl J Wilkinson was a journalist, he did not care about money. But the recession that hit the United States of America in 2008 […]

• January 16, 2013
• General News

More than six months after the story first broke of at least four Kohistani girls being killed for singing and clapping at a wedding in the presence of unrelated men, the ugly affair has cropped up again. At the time, a local man, Afzal Kohistani, had alleged the girls had been put to death on […]

• January 16, 2013
• General News

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has aptly summed up the mayhem and turmoil unleashed by the developments in the country in the last 72 hours. “It is difficult to measure the misfortune of the luckless people of Pakistan that their state is coming apart at the seams,” the HRCP said after the Supreme Court […]

• January 16, 2013
• General News, Social Media

By: Madeeha Ishtiaque Audience, once a passive recipient of information and merely cornered to the opinion section of a political talk show or ‘letter-to-the-editor’ is now empowered to not merely regulate but also originate the content it wishes to watch and read – thanks to the big social media revolution. What social media has done […]

• January 16, 2013
• Media Ethics

By: Shoaib A Raja ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday constituted a two-member Media Accountability Commission headed by Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid and comprising Javed Jabbar. The worthy members of the commission have consented to act as a commission. This commission has been formulated on the request of petitioners Hamid Mir, Absar Alam […]

• January 16, 2013
• Arts and Entertainment

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has issued order to protect 44 out of 91 archaeological sites that were handed over to the province under the 18th Amendment. Archaeology and Museums Director Prof Shah Nazar Khan said that the protection order was issued under the Protection Order and Antiquity Act 1997 about the sites that were […]