KARACHI: A protest demonstration was held in front of the Karachi Press Club on Sunday against the murder in Thatta of Rafique Jalbani, the son of senior journalist Abbas Jalbani. Protesters belonging to the Progressive Youth Front called for arrest of main suspects nominated in the FIR of the case and provision of shelter to […]
By: SHER ALAM SHINWARI PESHAWAR: A Karachi-based Pakhtun volunteer organisation has launched a campaign on social media to pursue parents not to buy toy guns for their children and instead buy them other toys on Eid that can trigger their imaginative and creative flight. Amjad Shahzad, a noted singer who leads the campaign in Khyber […]
By: ZOHRA YUSUF WHILE there is much hand-wringing in society on the powerful and irresponsible role the media has assumed for itself in Pakistan, little attention was paid by the media itself to the report released by the two member media commission appointed by the Supreme Court in January 2013. The authors of the report, […]
By: Farrukh Zafar KARACHI: What if I tell you that your mobile SIM can be duplicated and used by another person for different motives, without you getting to know about it, let alone your approval? I know it’s illegal, but it’s happening. Now think beyond the misuse of your phone number, the possible impersonation itself. […]
By: Abrar Mustafa ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has restored two members of Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom (MOITT). Kamran Ali, member legal, and M. Amir Malik, member IT, were suspended during interim government period due to their refusal to obey orders from high-ups for appointing two proposed members for the board […]
THE recent leak of Abbottabad Commission report escalated the political temperature and inundated talk shows with a new debate. The script, which surfaced, though critical of military intelligence agencies, didn’t fix the responsibility, unambiguously, on one institution. However, the leaked text of the report categorically highlights the civil-military imbalance, and brings to limelight the incapacity […]
By: Shabbir Sarwar LAHORE: In a seminar organised by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) on the Media Commission report, Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors former president Arif Nizami, SAFMA Secretary General Imtiaz Alam and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Associate Professor Dr Osama Siddique addressed the audience, while participants from various media […]
ISLAMABAD: Former army cricket coach Major (retd) Ahmad Nadeem Suddle has said Najam Sethi doesn’t know anything about cricket and he is causing harm to Pakistan cricket on the international level. Suddle, who launched a plea against Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) caretaker chairman Najam Sethi in Islamabad High Court, was expressing his ideas on Saturday […]
By: A.G. NOORANI PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif’s recent discussion with Subhash Chandra, the CEO of Zee TV, an Indian TV network, is noteworthy because what he said reflected the generally sad state of communications between the peoples of the two countries. Mr Sharif said that the regulatory regimes in India and Pakistan need to be […]
THATTA: A 35-year-old man was shot dead outside his home in Thatta’s Kumbhar Mohalla, near the Makli Cooperative Housing Society, on Friday evening. The victim, Rafique Jalbani, was a son of Dawn’s Senior Sub-editor Abbas Jalbani and associated with Christian Aid, a non-governmental organisation. Eyewitnesses sitting at a confectionary shop near the scene and a […]
LAHORE: The HRCP has voiced concern over the discovery of 20 decomposed bodies in Bara area of Khyber Agency. The commission also demanded urgent efforts to ascertain the identity of the victims and end the pervasive insecurity across the country. In a press statement on Friday, HRCP said: “The decomposed bodies of 20 persons found […]
Sir: Ramzan transmission seems like a money making activity these days on every television channel. Every guest there has an intense desire to get gifts from anchors, not for gaining knowledge of Islam. People sitting there do not even have the basic knowledge of Islam, but the remarkable thing is that the anchor feels no […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has rejected the contention of its former chief Khalid Mehmood, regarding sale of its broadcast rights in a transparent manner under the incumbent PCB management. “This process has been carried out in an absolutely transparent manner on the past two occasions by none other than former ICC President Ehsan Mani,” […]
FREEDOM of information is a fundamental human right, the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the UN is consecrated. (Resolution 59 (1) of the UNGA) The main theme behind the concept of freedom of information is that public institutions have an obligation to disclose information and every member of the public has a corresponding […]
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