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Daily Archives: March 9, 2014

Embarking on a ‘Visual Voyage’

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By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: The exhibition ‘Embarking on a Visual Voyage’ by Chitra Pritam, featuring paintings colourful paintings of boats travelling anchoring near coast of the sea, at Artscene Gallery will conclude here on Saturday (today). Above 20 such paintings were on display, grabbed attention of number of art lovers, artists and others. The artist […]


IT minister, operators discuss 3G auction regime

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KARACHI: The government will include suggestions of all stakeholders, particularly the cellular mobile operators, prior to the next generation spectrum auction (3G). All elements of the framework would be structured for the benefit of the public and to ensure maximum investment into rollout of networks, and financial viability of the mobile broadband market, said Minister […]


Internet turns 25

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On March 12, the internet will turn 25. More accurately, the form of internet that we know today will turn 25. Before March 1989, it was possible to transfer data between computers connected by a network. But websites, which make data more widely accessible, had not yet been developed. It was from a paper written […]


Thrashed : PFUJ, RIUJ condemn attack on journalist

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The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned the thrashing and torturing of a Mirpur-based journalist, allegedly done by workers of a political party. Mehmood Mirza, the editor of an Urdu daily, was allegedly attacked and dragged out of his office in Mirpur by workers of a political party after they stormed the […]