THE spectrum auction for the introduction of mobile broadband in Pakistan is in danger and the whole economy may fail if the current strong government intervention continues. As a central piece of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s budget strategy for fiscal 2013-14 and the first test of foreign capital’s appetite to invest in Pakistan under the […]
AT last, some accountability. Some days ago, a little over three years after Wali Khan Babar was shot dead while on his way home from work at a local television channel in Karachi, six people were convicted of the young reporter’s murder. Two of them, who have never been apprehended, were sentenced to death in […]
KARACHI: One is not sure how Rabindranath Tagore would have reacted to Nepali group Theatre Village’s adaptation of his play ‘Malini’. But rest assured he would have given the young director Bimal Subedi a pat on his back for adding a new dimension to the drama. Subedi’s post-avant-garde ‘Princess and the Garden’ performed as part […]
ISLAMABAD: The country’s first-ever media manual for journalists covering environment and climate change will be unveiled by Senate Sub-committee on Environment today (Monday). The Media Manual, aimed at promoting cleaner environment in the country will be launched by a sub-committee of Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights. “It is our responsibility to facilitate journalists to […]
MALALA Yousafzai has told teenagers to stop using social media to post pictures and get ‘likes’, and start using it to highlight women’s issues. Speaking at the Women of the World festival at the Southbank Centre, she said: “I don’t use Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, it needs time, but it’s my message to every […]
ISLAMABAD: US film directors Ted Braun and Marilyn Agrelo delivered keynote speeches at the 60 Second International Film Festival (www.60siff.com), held on Saturday at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts in Islamabad. Braun and Agrelo are visiting Pakistan with the US State Department’s American Film Showcase (AFS), a touring program that brings US documentaries […]
KARACHI: Striking colours, precise use of the brush and knife and a stroke of genius — this is what Hamid S Alavi’s latest works being exhibited at the Citi Art Gallery are made of. Alavi, a Karachi-based artist, explores the city of lights through his works, giving it a bona fide, yet surreal touch. The […]
MITHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that media has blown the issue of Thar drought and large-scale migration triggered by it out of proportions although it is a well known fact a large number of Tharis migrate to other areas to work as farm hands during the wheat harvest season. The […]
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