By: PEERZADA SALMAN KARACHI: They may be living in an area where turbulence has become an unavoidable occurrence but nothing can throw a spanner in their works. It was a visual and cerebral treat witnessing art exhibits created by students of Lyari’s Kiran School and handmade products made by their mothers at a one-day exhibition […]
By: ASIF SHAHZAD ISLAMABAD : Pakistan’s media regulatory agency has banned a condom commercial starring a sultry Pakistani model after it received hundreds of complaints the ad was too racy, a senior official said Thursday. The 50-second television commercial shows a Pakistani couple wondering why their neighbor’s new bride, the model and actress Mathira Mohammed […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the information technology minister and the secretary to appear on Aug 2 for the court’s assistance in a petition challenging ban on the access to YouTube, a video-sharing website. Earlier, representatives of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the IT ministry told the court that blocking all […]
ISLAMABAD: An event focusing on the impact and lessons of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India was held in the capital on Thursday. Wajahat Habibullah, chairman of India’s National Commission for Minorities, spoke as a distinguished lecturer at the event, organised by the Jinnah Institute, as part of the Indo-Pak Track II peace […]
By: Aziz Ali Dad Untimely meditations “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Soren Kierkegaard Living in today’s world, we cannot aspire for the kind of freedom enjoyed by the Greeks, whose cultural ethos and intellectual outlook was averse to labour and vocation which […]
KARACHI: Only hours after an anti-terrorism court declared him a proclaimed offender facing Arshad Pappu’s murder trial, Lyari’s Uzair Jan Baloch opened his arms wide for the journalists he invited to his house for iftar. On Tuesday, nearly 500 journalists, from both print and electronic media, made their way to Lyari to break their fast […]
By: Jahanzaib Haque The mobile and tablet revolution is upon us, faster than we in the media industry can respond. News is becoming more social and more real-time. The future of news is conclusively digital and multiplatform. These are just a few of the key findings of the newly released Digital News Report 2013 by […]
By: Abdur Rauf PESHAWAR: The Right to Information Ordinance (RTI) is yet to encourage a sense of optimism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). The RTI’s legislation was devised in April 2010 under the 18th Amendment and was recently approved by the K-P cabinet in a meeting on July 10, 2013. However, as the provincial assembly is not […]
LAHORE: The petitioner in BOL News case, Agha Shahid Rasheed, has alleged that PEMRA deliberately concealed many facts while deciding the fate of the licence issue and overlooked several specific points during the proceedings of “personal hearing”. PEMRA had announced its decision on Monday, saying no irregularity had been committed while transferring the licence of […]
By: Kamila Hyat We know too little about how our government functions or what it determines for us – quite often without our knowledge or consent. One of the areas into which authorities seem to be stepping with heavier and heavier boots is access to information over the internet. The internet has, notably over the […]
Islamabad: The government has evolved ‘guidelines’ for all federal government institutions to handle the fast-growing “independent” media. The seven-point guidelines, a copy of which is available with Dawn, appear to focus on two factors – publicity of government plans and monitoring of contents in media, especially in the electronic media. The prime minister’s secretariat has […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has inked an agreement for providing cloud computing services to Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU). Under the programme, PTCL will offer web space, email and unified collaboration services bundled with EVO access for the students, teachers and management of AIOU, says a press release. The service will benefit more […]
LAHORE: A training workshop was arranged by Individual land Pakistan in partnership with Freidrich Norman Foundation (FnF) on “Citizen Journalism” and “social media” in Lahore on Tuesday. Citizen Journalism is a growing phenomenon globally and with time, has surfaced not only as a vital source of non-selective information for citizens but as an important tool […]
KARACHI: Although a large number of persons from every walk of life are visiting the special Geo Ramazan transmission ‘Aaman Ramazan’, yet the top priority of Dr Amir Liaqat Hussain, the host of the show, is to heal the wounds of the afflicted and thus to serve humanity during the holy month. On he twelfth […]
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