KARACHI: It has increasingly become an unreasonable request that literary functions in the city be held on time. This was clearly evident at the launch of Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui’s audio CD titled Sachey Sha’er ka Khaliyaan at the Arts Council on Thursday, as the event started almost two hours behind the schedule. Presided […]
KARACHI: The Geo TV administration did not allow the re-telecast of Dr Shaista’s Programme, ‘Utho, Jago, Pakistan’ aired on Wednesday, which created a controversy over its content.Moreover, taking cognisance of the situation, the Geo administration suspended the programme content and the production team of the programme for an indefinite period.Earlier, the host of the programme, […]
ISLAMABAD: In a rare show of unity, members of the lower house rose above partisanship and passed a unanimous resolution asking the government to take steps on a “priority basis” to safeguard the holy places of minorities. The multi-party backed resolution, which also demanded the deployment of special security personnel at minorities’ places of worship, […]
By: Hifza Jillani KARACHI: The first step to becoming a journalist, according to French journalist Julien Le Bot, is to be curious. Le Bot, who primarily works in digital media, believes that philosophers and journalists have similar characteristics. He added that when he was younger, he wanted to be a philosopher but ended up working […]
LAHORE: Renowned religious scholars on Thursday asked the public to boycott Geo TV and advertisers who are funding the network’s campaign in response to the airing of blasphemous content in a morning show a day earlier. Appearing on a private TV channel, the scholars accused Geo TV of disrespecting the family of the Holy Prophet […]
ISLAMABAD: The government and the electronic media watchdog Pemra have not yet moved to restore the Geo News transmission to the position it was on the day of the murder attempt on senior journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi. Mir was attacked on April 19. Those acting against Geo wield so much influence that despite repeated […]
THE expulsion order handed out to the two Indian journalists in Pakistan, Snehesh Alex Philip and Meena Menon, earlier this week hardly reflects well on either journalistic freedoms in Pakistan, or the latter’s respect for the Fourth Estate. Working with the Press Trust of India and The Hindu newspaper respectively, both were first curtly told […]
LAHORE: Showing solidarity with senior anchorperson Hamid Mir and Jang/Geo, journalists, politicians, religious leaders and members of civil society vowed on Thursday to resist any move to ban Jang/Geo at any pretext. They were speaking at a protest demonstration, held under the banner of Life Members Forum of Lahore Press Club at the LPC here. […]
KARACHI: Dr Aamir Liaquat has said that the ARY channel had aired the same ‘Manqabat’ which was totally unacceptable and it hurt the sentiments of Geo viewers. He identified that Mubashar Lucman’s channel ARY had telecast the same ‘Manqabat’ three times in the same manner on different occasions and as evidence, videos of the same […]
KARACHI: The host of the morning show ‘Utho Jago Pakistan’, Dr Shaista Lodhi, has said that she is ashamed of the unintentional mistake she made and she and the team of the programme seek an apology from Allah Almighty. She said that she apologised over the unintentional mistake in Wednesday’s programme that had caused an […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday paid a surprise visit to the residence of senior Geo anchor Hamid Mir here and inquired after his health. Imran was happy to see Mir recovering from the deadly attack on his life on April 19 in Karachi.Talking to media persons, PTI chief said Allah Almighty […]
ISLAMABAD: Former president of Islamabad Bar Association Chaudhry Muhammad Akram here Thursday moved Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking directions to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to cancel licence of the ARY TV for ridiculing former chief justice of Pakistan and superior judiciary. The petitioner made MIB, […]
KARACHI: A two-day exhibition of Shafqat Hussain Wadho’s paintings began at the Arts Council’s Ahmed Pervaiz Gallery on Thursday evening. It is evident from the artworks put on display that Shafqat Hussain is man who has deep affinity with nature. But nature to him is a broad term. It also involves moral and aesthetic values […]
Karachi: The Grandeur Art Gallery was host to a group exhibition of seven artists and sculptors representing various forms and schools of art, ranging from realism to semi-abstract art and the abstract. It was a collage of colours and paintings. Some of these works deserve special mention. For instance, ‘Female Faces’ by Azra Wahab. The […]
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