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Daily Archives: March 14, 2014

Bashar Momin – Pakistan’s most expensive TV serial begins today

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KARACHI: Geo TV and A&B Productions join hands to bring the most expensive TV serial in Pakistan – Bashar Momin – that begins today, only on Geo Entertainment. During a bloggers meet up earlier this week, the journalists and bloggers had a chance to meet the cast and the crew in a five-star hotel, and […]


Ajoka plays at Napa begin today

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KARACHI: Lahore-based Ajoka Theatre is to stage two plays as a tribute to a great freedom fighter of Punjab, Bhagat Singh, during the ongoing international theatre festival at the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa), Karachi, on March 14 and 15. ‘Rang de Basanti’ is to be staged on March 14 while ‘Lo Phir Basant […]


Dar orders transparency in spectrum auction

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ISLAMABAD: The Finance Minister Ishaq Dar emphasised on Thursday that the process of 3G/4G auction should be transparent. He was chairing a meeting of the Spectrum Auction Advisory Committee on the progress made so far on the auctioning of spectrum licences. PTA Chairman Dr Syed Ismail Shah said the spectrum will provide increased download speed […]


Right to information: YouTube ban equated with stopping blasphemy

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LAHORE: A group of lawyers favouring the ban on YouTube staged protested demonstration outside the Lahore High Court against “blasphemy or any steps taken to defend blasphemers.” Bytes for All, the petitioner, is seeking withdrawal of the ban on the popular video sharing website. Its counsel Yasser Latif Hamdani and four officials appeared at the […]


Journalist & Broadcaster Masood Alam to be laid to rest today

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ISLAMABAD: A known journalist and broadcaster Masood Alam, who had died in a road accident on the rainy Tuesday night, will be laid to rest at Islamabad’s H-11 Graveyard on Friday afternoon at 3pm. He was 48. His family members had delayed the funeral as his two children, currently studying in Canada, were due to […]