LAHORE: “I still see myself as a reporter,” said Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer on Tuesday. Peer was speaking at Faiz Ghar about his experience of writing the script of Bollywood film Haider in collaboration with filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj. He said opting to become a journalist was the closest thing to writing. Peer said Bhardwaj had […]
LAHORE: The sudden death in Islamabad of Maria Golovnina, the Bureau Chief of Reuters in Pakistan and Afghanistan, on Monday, has sparked a lot of speculation and the internet is already littered with rumours regarding the cause of her untimely demise. Her death is certainly very disturbing for the London-based Reuters, functioning since October 1851, […]
So, recently I have been telling people I am a journalist. I have sort of been forced to. I have started working for a newspaper, mostly because it is the only job that I could get in Lahore. Perhaps that is just an excuse I use to justify it, perhaps I am secretly grateful for […]
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders on Wednesday condemned use of ‘derogatory language’ about the party and its lawmakers urged media to use freedom of expression with great responsibility. MQM leaders Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Qamar Mansoor, Farooq Sattar and Haider Abbas Rizvi warned that those who were plotting against the MQM and holding its media […]
LAHORE: Millions of pre-paid SIMs are likely to be blocked tomorrow (Friday) as the government is indecisive whether or not to extend the Feb 26 deadline of biometric verification for those having three or more connections to their names. A senior official of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told Dawn on Wednesday that the government was […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation has proposed electronic cess on purchase of mobile phones costing over Rs35,000 and registration of vehicles to cover the Rs4 billion annual deficit of Radio Pakistan. PBC Director General Imran Gardezi told the Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday that the proposal to levy Rs4,000 on registration of a vehicle was […]
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