By: Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: Glowing tributes were paid to renowned poet Khalid Moin during the launching of his fourth Urdu poetry collection titled ‘Na-gahan’ at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Saturday. Prominent journalist and writer Ahfazur Rehman, who presided over the function, said that Moin has used unique metaphors in order to highlight […]
By: Tehmina Qureshi KARACHI: In the heart of Garden town is a street which is more colourful than the rest with its colours cutting through the blanket of shabby greyness of the area. The shops here also sell mudguards and wheel caps but they are colourful and pink — something you would hang in your […]
By: ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI PESHAWAR: There is no competent authority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to properly monitor the sale of chemicals like acids, which, because of their easy availability, are sometimes misused by disgruntled people in acid attacks, mostly on women. “A litre of hydrochloric acid is available for as low as Rs50 and it can be […]
SUKKUR: A young Hindu girl went missing after she left her home for a temple in Shah Ghazi locality in Jacobabad on Sunday. The girl’s relatives informed police who raided a house owned by one Haq Nawaz Thaheem in Dangar locality to recover Deepa Kumari, daughter of a Mukesh Kumar, a shopkeeper, but found it […]
By: MADEEHA SYED KARACHI: Life in Karachi can at best be described as unpredictable. Owing to unrest in the city, a World Music Day concert organised by City FM89 and Alliance Française de Karachi (AFK), that was supposed to be held simultaneously in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad last weekend, couldn’t take place in Karachi. Featuring […]
By: Bina Shah AN excellent Asian Media Barometer tool has been developed by the Friedrich Ebert Siftung Foundation, a German political organisation that seeks to educate ordinary citizens about democracy and pluralism. The 2012 AMB was launched recently with a roundtable discussion about media and ethics, which made it clear that Pakistan’s media, especially our […]
According to the 2012 State of Pakistan’s Children report released by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC), 25 million children are out of school, 12 million are engaged in labour while around 618 newborn babies die every day in the country. No wonder then that SPARC has termed the state […]
By: Salman Abduhu LAHORE: Telecom sector has contributed more than Rs510 billion as taxes in the last nine years but successive governments have squeezed the sector considering it a cash cow to hide their own inefficiencies. Questioning the wisdom of economic managers of the government behind decision to slap additional tax on telecom industry, experts […]
LAHORE: New generation television commercials and public service announcements (PSA) prepared by the students of Institute of Communication Studies Punjab University enthralled audience in a creative and mesmerising event at the campus here on Sunday. Ranging from the public awareness messages on various social problems to commercial advertisement of products, as many as 26 students […]
By: Hajrah Mumtaz GALLING as it is to have to consider it, could Rehman Malik have been right? There were many things about which he was wrong, and many instances when he should have put a little more thought into what he was saying; but one area where his comments remain unsubstantiated was regarding the […]
By: Ramzan Chandio KARACHI: Women may be left out of land rights at the time o f land reforms as they have no records of land, this was established at a seminar on ‘Land Reforms in Pakistan: A Women Peasant Aspect’ on Sunday. Agriculturists, land reforms and development experts have said that despite three times […]
Karachi: The family of Dr Aafia Siddiqui here Sunday welcomed the announcement of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ahmed regarding formation of a government committee to ensure early release and repatriation of the Pakistani mother from the United States of America. Aafia Movement Pakistan leader Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, greeting the government move, said that this government […]
ISLAMABAD: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is organizing an event today at the Pak China Friendship Centre where the media products of the selected students of Mass Communication from seven national universities would be launched. The media products included research studies, video documentary and short films on various aspects of child labour. Interesting stage and […]
” 
” 
” 
” 
” 
