KARACHI: They say in a single moment you can live a lifetime. The 60 Second International Film Festival (60SIFF) hopes to bring together films that aim to capture those stories, those lifetimes, and communicate them within a minute. Although relatively small and humble and compared to the giant that the Karafilm Festival had become back […]
Social media has taken over our lives, changing the way of communication for all. Digital space is changing with a blink of an eye giving brands a new medium to advertise and interact with their potential consumers. Not a single day goes by when one doesn’t check his Facebook; approximately one million Pakistanis have joined […]
People don’t trust the government to help them respond to climate change. With Pakistan becoming increasing vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, like floods and droughts, a recent BBC Climate Asia Report has found that around 72 per cent of people don’t trust the government to help them respond to these challenges. They have […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has condemned the retrogressive move by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to roll back the Muslim family laws and called upon the government to stand fast in defence of women’s rights, says a handout. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the commission said: “At a time […]
ISLAMABAD: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government, acting on the complaint of a minority community, has banned the live broadcast of a local FM channel in Chitral for airing provocative speeches. The Supreme Court was apprised about this by the secretary to Malakand’s commissioner, who submitted a two-page report in the court — a copy of which is […]
ABBOTABAD: The Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) administration in Abbottabad has barred local media from covering the matriculation examinations that started here on Wednesday. Following previous practice, journalists from various news channels and newspapers visited different examination centres for coverage, but they were denied entry to the examination hall by the staff and […]
LAHORE: Indian film actor Om Puri on Wednesday denounced the onslaught of propaganda films on both sides of the border, especially in India, which insult Indian and Pakistani sentiments, and said he would never consider acting in such films. He disliked the stereotypes of Muslims around the world and thought of Naseeruddin Shah and Anjum […]
ISLAMABAD: While majority of heinous crimes like kidnapping for ransom, extortion and other terrorist activities across the country are carried out using mostly Afghan SIMs for cell phones, operating on “roaming facility” inside Pakistan territory, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has confirmed that none of the state institutions has ever informed the authority of this fact. […]
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