LONDON: Malala Yousufzai is to tell her story in a book due out later this year, the publishers said on Thursday, in a deal reportedly worth around $3 million. The book will be entitled “I Am Malala”. “I hope the book will reach people around the world, so they realise how difficult it is for […]
Training workshop KARACHI: White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan (WRCP), in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS) of Germany, organised a training workshop for women journalists under the Continued Professional Education (CPE) programme at a local hotel on Wednesday. HBS Country Director Britta Petersen instructed the journalists on different aspects and issues of ‘Conflict Sensitive Journalism’ […]
Atle Hetland In our time, it is not uncommon that local news items are broadcasted worldwide, i.e. made into international news. Other news items are truly international. In this article, I shall discuss a few items about religion, media and the economy with emphasis on the moral foundation and superstructure of society. We all have […]
NAVEED BUTT According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, 32% of Pakistanis think the biggest problem being faced by women today is lack of education. The Survey says that a nation-wide representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was interviewed. Question, “In your opinion, what is […]
REGARDED as the pioneer of modern Punjabi poetry and literature, Amrita Pritam got immediate fame when she wrote the poignant poem ‘Ajj Aakhan Waris Shah Nuu’. In this poem she had expressed her anguish on the massacre of about one million people in Punjab in communal violence following the partition of British India in 1947. […]
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has strongly refuted the allegation that it murdered journalist Malak Mumtaz. Not only that, it has condoled with the family of the murdered journalist and offered to help trace the murderers. Noted TV anchors have presented their above-mentioned statements as if the TTP fellows are quite humane and respect human life. Ironically, […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has welcomed the appointment of Najam Sethi as the Punjab caretaker Chief Minister and hoped that during his tenure in office, the cordial relations between the Punjab provincial government and APNS will be more strengthened. According to a press release the President and Secretary General of the APNS […]
Maleeha Hamid Siddiqui KARACHI: What does Twitter mean to tweeters and tweetaholics? Is it a medium that can be trusted? Or is it to be kept at an arm’s length? These and other interrelated questions were raised by writer and film-maker Tan Siok Siok in the aptly titled Twittermentary, which was screened at T2F on […]
THE government banned YouTube just for a useless and blasphemous video. There are millions of sermons, religious and educational material available on YouTube which cannot be accessed by the public. Is there any common sense? I ask the authorities: how many other countries, besides Pakistan, have banned YouTube for posting blasphemous material? AAMIR ABBASI Karachi […]
By Ahmad Rafay Alam The writer is the Vice President of the Pakistan Environmental Law Association In 2010, the Planning Commission (PC) of Pakistan announced its Framework for Economic Growth (FEG). The FEG aimed to replace the PC’s previous 10-year development plans with a new paradigm for economic growth. It remains to be seen whether […]
By M Ziauddin Corruption is regarded by most Pakistanis as one of the major stumbling blocks in the way of the country’s progress and prosperity. The media has vociferously articulated this notion, and more often than not, led anti-corruption campaigns from the front by naming and shaming people, especially public figures known for their appetite […]
Farooq Sulehria In terms of production, the late Lollywood was once rated as one of the world’s top ten film industries. Until the 1980s it was not called Lollywood. It was on the pattern of India’s Bollywood that it appropriated Hollywood’s name to become Lollywood. Paradoxically, all its life – marked by glory and shame […]
RAWALPINDI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has welcomed the decisions of the meeting of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the APNS held on March 05. According to a press release, the meeting had decided that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting would revert to the earlier practice of allocation of advertisements with […]
Haleem Asad TIMERGARA: All political and religious parties in Lower Dir agreed on Tuesday to back women’s participation in voting and follow the election code of conduct during the upcoming general election. In this regard, an all parties’ meeting was held at Timergara Rest House, which was attended by contesting candidates and local heads of […]
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