Shaikh Ayaz represented voice of the masses. His words echoed feelings of the downtrodden against oppression by dictators and autocrats. This was the unified opinion of people who attended an event held on Sunday to mark the 91st birth anniversary of Sindhi poet Shaikh Ayaz. Organised by the Radio Pakistan, the ceremony was held at […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban have threatened to bomb a mobile phone market in Peshawar for the “shameless” selling of video clips, ring tones and accessories, officials said on Saturday. Some 60 shopkeepers received letters in the post ordering them to burn the offending stock, including memory cards and speakers for MP3 players, and stick to selling […]
By: Bari Baloch QUETTA – Cable Operators’ Association President Babrak Khan said on Sunday cable service had been suspended in 14 districts of Balochistan after receiving threats from armed groups and security forces. Babrak told a press conference here that 80 per cent people affiliated with cable business belonged to poor families and had been […]
PESHAWAR/SWABI: Journalists in Peshawar held a protest demonstration against the murder of Qalat Press Club president Mehmood Afridi and demanded of the government to arrest the accused involved in the case. While speaking on the occasion office-bearers of Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ), Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemned […]
ISLAMABAD: Poet, writer, intellectual and academician, Shabnam Shakeel, died on Saturday in Karachi. Her funeral will be offered in H-11 graveyard on Sunday, in Islamabad. Shabnam Shakeel started writing at an early age and published her first book “Tanqeedi Mazameen” in 1965. Besides, she also published books “Shabzaad” (poetry collection) in 1987, “Izteraab” (poetry collection) […]
By: Zubeida Mustafa Activism is action for change. And if change is to result in progress and not chaos, the process must have leadership. In Pakistan most changes that have been experienced in the lives of women have been driven by activists or in other cases they have evolved from socio-economic compulsions. By its very […]
ISLAMABAD: Women outnumber men in the list of Pakistani voters aged 100 years or more. According to updated statistics of the final electoral rolls 2012, exclusively available with Dawn, the number of voters with over 100 years is 3,844. Of them 1,992 are women and 1,852 men. Most of such voters hail from different parts […]
Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: Armed gunmen killed senior journalist Mehmood Jan Afridi in Kalat town of Balochistan on Friday evening. Deputy Commissioner Kalat, Bashir Ahmed Bazai said gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at Mehmood Jan Afridi in Bus Addah area of Kalat. He said the assailants managed to escape from the spot. Police and […]
ISLAMABAD, March 3: Columnist and anchorperson of a news channel, Javed Chaudhry, has contacted Kohsar police, after being threatened by an unidentified person. According to police officials, Mr Chaudhry filed an application in which he alleged that a person had been threatening him through two different phone numbers. A police officer said that First Information […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI, March 1: The women’s rights movement in Pakistan is basically a political struggle, said renowned social activist Anis Haroon while delivering the 13th annual Hamza Wahid lecture organised by the Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences at the PMA House on Friday evening. Ms Haroon recalled the days when she was in college […]
By Seema Mustafa The writer is a consulting editor with The Statesman and writes widely for several newspapers in India South Asia is not kind to its journalists. A free media is scary for both state and non-state actors, who resort to all kinds of measures to keep it in check. From outright violence to […]
Naeem Tahir Advertising revenue is the main source of income for TV channel owners and they would want their programmes to be considered popular to get advertising revenues There are said to be 87 TV licences given by the government in the past. Countless TV networks came into being. Private TV channels are revenue based. […]
LARKANA, March 1: The executive board of the National Fund for Moenjodaro has approved creation of a scout force to protect the 5,000-year-old city from the onslaught of visitors on traditional festivals, like Eid and other public holidays. The board decided in its 5th meeting held at Moenjodaro on Friday that 40 scouts would be […]
Sir: YouTube has been banned in Pakistan for nearly 163 days now. However, the ban has brought little good. The anti-Islam video, which was the root cause of the ban, is still viewable to the entire world on YouTube. Moreover, more than 1 million links on the internet lead to the video as copies of […]
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