Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Call it fusion, experimentation or innovation, the fact of the matter is: it was a memorable evening of music. A group known as Berlin to Lahore gave an impressive performance at a concert organised by the Goethe Institut Karachi and Tezheeb Foundation at a hotel on Tuesday. The band was formed last […]
Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL, March 26: A woman teacher was shot dead in Jamrud subdivision of Khyber Agency on Tuesday, officials said. Two assailants on a motorbike opened fire at Shehnaz Nazli at close range when she was about to enter a community girls school in Shah Kas area at around 9am. Ms Nazli suffered […]
Former provincial secretary Mir Hussain Ali said on Monday that water and environment had a profound linkage and it was a matter of concern that the rivers, streams and oceans were being polluted with waste water. He said, “This practice is destroying marine life and we have to control the situation by using available water […]
Anil Datta An Australian newspaper’s delegation said on Monday it was really impressed by the degree of press freedom and the bold and neutral reportage in Pakistan.The two-member delegation comprised Oliver Perret, project manager at The Epoch Times, Sydney, Australia, and Jenny Zang. “Back home, we had been given rather a different account of the […]
KARACHI – Mass media has played a vital role in empowerment of women, said Prof Shahida Kazi in his address at a seminar organized by the Newports Institute of Communications and Economics (NICE) in collaboration with library and literary committee of Karachi Gymkhana. She recalled that in the past women were not in the field […]
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan has appreciated the efforts by professional bodies of the journalists for welfare of their community. This he said while talking to the delegation of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) at Governor House here on Monday. Tahir Najmai and Amin Yousuf led the […]
“Radio Pakistan will ensure impartial and thorough coverage of the elections to fulfill its public responsibility,” said Solangi. ISLAMABAD: The Senate standing committee on information and broadcasting called upon Pakistan Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistan on Monday to educate people about the upcoming general election and ensure that their coverage is both balanced and wide-ranging. […]
It is a great misfortune that Mass Communication Department in University of Karachi has its own FM radio to prepare the students, but very few of them take advantage of the facility. Most of the students don’t even know that a radio station exists in their department. This is the duty of the teachers to […]
By Kiyya Qadir Baloch ISLAMABAD: More than two weeks after Islamabad police once again took over the rape and murder case of two girls that rocked the federal capital earlier this month, a team will exhume the bodies of the two victims, Sawera Hakim (over 18) and Shahzadi Bibi (11) next week so that further […]
Akhtar Amin PESHAWAR: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday said killing of girls marrying without the consent of the family members was on the rise in Pakistan. HRCP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Coordinator Shahidullah Khan told The News that women were being killed in the name of “honour” even on suspicion or for going […]
Dr Najeeb A Khan Nimra Irfan in her letter, ‘Women’s rights’ (March 22), has averred that honour killings, stove burnings and rapes in Pakistan indicate inadequate legal protection for women. There is no denying the fact that our parliamentarians are more interested in their perks and privileges rather than legislation on such serious matters. The […]
KARACHI: The recent loss of an exotic tigress in Safari Park has once again brought into light the critical need for setting up autonomous management committee(s), comprising wildlife professionals, to scientifically run facilities for captive animals, experts said while talking to Dawn. They said that standards be devised and necessary laws enacted without further delay […]
Rauf Parekh The manipulation of media and its ever-increasing influence on society has been a subject of many research studies. However, the scholarship in the Urdu language has remained limited to literary, historical and religious studies and areas such as media studies got very little attention of it. That is why a book in Urdu […]
HYDERABAD: A young woman was killed in a shooting incident at her house in Qasimabad on Saturday. Ayesha Arain, 28, was hit on the leg. Her husband, Suleman Arain, claimed that he shot accidentally when an automatic pistol fell on the floor. According to SHO Abdul Kareem Abbasi, Ayesha was already dead when she was […]
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