Journalists worldwide can apply for a US$24,000 fellowship to conduct a reporting project abroad. Sponsored by the John Alexander Project and NPR, the Above the Fray Fellowship is designed to give a promising journalist the opportunity to cover important, under-reported stories from abroad. The selected individual will spend three months filing on-air and online stories […]
KARAK: The participants of a discussion on the title of ‘Impacts of Pakistani Media, Positive or Negative’ held here on Tuesday at Khushal Khan Khattak University stressed on the media to play more responsible role in eradication of extremis from the society and added that the foreign culture invasion should be countered affectively. The all […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is the most dangerous place to be born in Asia as it has the highest first day mortality rate for babies in Asia and shares 6 per cent burden of the global first day deaths due to high rate of pre-term births, low birth weight, poor nutritional status of mothers, poor family […]
LAHORE: The upcoming elections are not the first that have been boycotted by the Ahmedis rather these are the eighth consecutive polls being boycotted by the minority community. Historically, the Ahmedis have not taken part in any election at any level after they were declared non-Muslims in the constitution in 1974. They boycotted the general […]
GILGIT: Inflation, poverty, an 18-year-old paralysed son, three school-going daughters, a jobless husband: Khadija Bibi, a housewife in Gilgit, saw no apparent light at the end of the tunnel. With many government projects stalled due to lack of funds, her husband, a contractor, was not expected to start earning anytime soon. Desperate times require desperate […]
LAHORE: A group of anti-Ahmadi activists and police dragged five members of the community from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained them for several hours here on Tuesday. The police eventually determined that they had not broken any blasphemy or terrorism laws, as alleged, and released them without registering an FIR. The […]
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has sought comments from a leading mobile phone company on a complaint filed by the chairman of the Central Election Monitoring Cell of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N, Senator Ishaq Dar that its funds have been allocated for promoting and funding the poll campaign of a […]
KARACHI: A two-day exhibition of 100 posters from Bolivia, Botswana, Ecuador, Ghana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Greece, India, Kenya, Mexico, Ukraine, Macedonia, Morocco, Tunisia and Pakistan opens at the Arts Council of Pakistan on Wednesday at 5pm. Source: Dawn
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to deploy lady health workers at women polling stations in the province on May 11 to meet shortages of policewomen required to perform security duty. Provincial information minister Musarrat Qadeem told a news conference here on Tuesday that lady health workers would be undergo necessary training to perform […]
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