KARACHI: Zia Mohyeddin is an artiste who has remained in the limelight for so long that he has now started running away from it. And rightly so; after all, if he stays in public even for a moment, he never fails to attract a horde of people hailing from different generations. But the National Academy […]
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Spectrum Auction Advisory Committee was held under the chairmanship of Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar at the finance ministry here on Wednesday. Secretary Ministry of Information Technology, Akhlaq Tarrar briefed the committee on the progress made so far on the auction of licences. He informed the committee that all the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Indus Delta is the most vulnerable area to the challenges of climate change as it may face increased requirements of irrigation water due to higher vaporisation at elevated temperatures in the face of limited availability of water. The data prepared by Research and Development Division of Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) showed that the […]
PESHAWAR: The Journalists Welfare, Safety and Development Foundation (JWSDF); Pakistan, has decided to compile data of the orphans and widows of the slain media persons and to make arrangements for education, healthcare, livelihood and shelter for the terrorism-affected families.The decision was taken at a meeting of the foundations’ office-bearers, which was held at Peshawar Press […]
ISLAMABAD: Accepting a petition for the enforcement of fundamental rights of disabled persons, the Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned the attorney general for Pakistan and all advocate generals to assist it in the case. A three-judge bench – headed by Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani – took up the petition, seeking the top court’s intervention […]
KARACHI: Two suspected target killers killed in an encounter with the police in Karachi on Monday were also involved in the attacks on the office of Express Media group, a top Karachi police official said on Wednesday. “The cross-matching of ballistics reports has confirmed the two suspects [killed in Monday’s encounter] were involved in the […]
On Saturday March 1, 2014 a Pakistani court convicted six defendants for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the convictions – the first in the murder of a Pakistani […]
SPRING is in the air and if hope is to be found, we have only to turn towards the spate of cultural festivities that have lifted moods over recent weeks. Literature and Sindhi culture have been celebrated and Tuesday saw the kick-off of the over three-week-long international theatre festival put up by Karachi’s National Academy […]
KARACHI: As cheaper telephony channels such as grey traffic and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services terminate more international calls to Pakistan, the telephony traffic of Long Distance International (LDI) operators declined further, Topline Securities reported on Wednesday. “As per our industry sources, international incoming call traffic of LDI operators has declined to 520 million […]
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