For two days — November 21-22 — the International Movie Database (IMDb) website was blocked, to the considerable mystification of all, there being no official explanation for the block. The IMDb is one of the most popular websites on the internet, and ranked at number seven on the “Top 10 Must-know” entertainment websites. It is […]
SUKKUR: Saturday was the second hearing of the murder case of Geo Television reporter Wali Khan Babar in which neither the lawyers nor the witnesses showed up. The case was recently shifted to Kandhkot as the prosecutors and witnesses were facing security threats in Karachi. The first hearing of the case in Kandhkot was scheduled […]
THE chief minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, recently urged policemen to utilise social networking sites to reach out to the public during emergencies. We have commonly seen that in developing societies the institution of the police lacks the initiative to make optimum use of technology and social media. Extremist groups fight simultaneously at the physical level […]
KARACHI: ‘Dekh bhaal kay jana’ is a phrase of caution that Karachi’ities have heard one too many times when they’re about to step out of their homes – especially when the halaat [law and order situation] take a turn for the worse as they did in the 1980s when artist Roohi Ahmed used to drive […]
ISLAMABAD: By successfully executing identification related projects in a number of developing countries, National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has broken the international monopoly once enjoyed by Western companies. Just recently, it won the first phase of the Sri Lankan government’s identity cards project, through open bidding. This, in itself, is a milestone, and the […]
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