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Daily Archives: March 15, 2014

Microsoft to play role in Punjab

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KARACHI: Microsoft Pakistan is to enlist Windows 8.1 Hackathon as technology partners at the Punjab Youth Festival 2014 in Lahore, a Microsoft press release said on Friday. The Windows 8.1 app development Hackathon is a project launched in Pakistan by Microsoft’s Innovation Center-Lahore, which is currently engaged in facilitating technical training sessions in universities in […]


APNS delegation calls on Punjab CM

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LAHORE: PR – Members of All Pakistan Newspapers Society delegation met Shahbaz Sharif and expressed satisfaction over the policy of transparent distribution of advertisements, terming it a commendable step of the chief minister. The delegation members said that advertisements are given to the newspapers from the office of DGPR under corruption free culture while timely […]


Attention paid to consumer rights–at least today

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KARACHI: With the world celebrating the World Consumer Rights Day 2014 on Saturday, the Pakistani consumer couldn’t ask for a better theme than “Fix Our Phone Rights” – the focus for this year. With a cellular subscriber base of 132 million, the country’s cellular users remain vulnerable to deceptive marketing practices, say consumer rights activists. […]


The man who gave Urdu its wings

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KARACHI: Ahmed Mirza Jamil changed the way all Urdu newspapers and books would be published anywhere in the world; and he did it back in 1981 with his Noori Nastaliq script that gave the Midas touch to desktop publishing. The present-day Urdu publishing owes its elegant contours to the calligraphic skills of this great wizard […]


Call to provide security to minorities

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PESHAWAR: Representa-tives of a civil society organisation have demanded of the government to take effective steps for ensuring protection of lives and properties of non-Muslims in Pakistan. Speaking at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Friday, South Asian Partnership, Pakistan Regional Programme coordinator Fida Hussain said the country’s constitution guaranteed equal rights to […]