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 […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued a show cause notice to M/s Independent Media Corporation (Pvt.) Ltd (Geo News). Following is the text of the notice: “Reference: Talk Show Programme “Naya Pakistan” hosted by Mr. Talat Hussain (Anchor-person) aired on Geo News on 22nd February 2015 starting from 2005 hours with Allama […]
By: Ikram Junaidi and Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: Reuters’ bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan Maria Golovnina, 34, died in the news agency’s Islamabad office on Monday in mysterious circumstances. A Reuters’ statement said she fell unconscious in her office and was rushed to a private hospital. But “medical teams were unable to save” the Russian […]
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan on Monday expressed deep concern over different environmental issues, particularly water and air pollution which continue to affect the health of the people. In a statement issued on Monday, he said that environmental degradation has emerged to be a grave socioeconomic issue for the country and […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would allow agents from the FBI to interrogate two cybercrime suspects each with a $50,000 bounty on their heads in the United States, officials said Monday. Pakistani nationals Noor Aziz Uddin and Furhanul Arshad were arrested in Karachi on February 14, police said. The FBI’s website said the men were part of an […]
ON Feb 21 at about 1pm I went for the verification of my SIM at a SIM outlet in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Karachi. I was asked to cough up Rs20 for SIM verification instead of the official stipulated rate of Rs10 per SIM. When attention was drawn to the official rate, the people at this verification centre […]
ISLAMABAD: Maria Golovnina, the Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief of Reuters who was based in Islamabad, was found dead at her office-cum-residence in the capital’s F-8 sector, sources in the police told Dawn. Golovnina had reportedly gone to the toilet, and had not stepped out for a long time when people who were present barged […]
LAHORE: The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) ended with spreading literary freshness among the literature lovers; in true spirit bring diversity of knowledge, full of colours and sense of festivity to Lahore. Media experts, journalists and speakers at a session on ‘Future of TV news: Journalism or Mirch Masala?’ said that TV news channels with driving […]
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has yet to decide whether or not it should make public a judicial commission’s report on the targeted killing of a senior journalist in Quetta. Irshad Mastoi, bureau chief of Online news distribution agency, as well as a reporter Abdul Rasul and an accountant Mohammed Younus were killed on August 28, […]
KARACHI: If you really want to know what goes behind bars, Artpeace exhibition is a must-see this week. Opened on Saturday at the ArtCiti gallery, Artpeace exhibits 112 paintings by 13 convicts of the Central Prison Fine Arts School. From oil on canvas to watercolour and charcoal, it is striking to see a wide range […]
KARACHI: Speakers at a condolence reference for the late senior journalist, Sulaiman Ahmed Meenai, eulogised his services to the profession and paid tribute to his journalistic skills and literary flavour in his writings and editorials. They recalled the dignity and grace in his interaction with colleagues and friends. He passed away recently after a prolonged […]
ISLAMABAD: The government will buy Rs30.4 million equipment to monitor the talk shows of private TV channels. Sizable amount will be set aside in the development budget for the coming year for setting up broadcast centres at the Control Line, Working Boundary and frontiers close to Iran, China and Afghanistan to extend transmission of the […]
ISLAMNABAD: As part of the National Action Plan (NAP) to root out terrorism Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is considering an official summary to grant powers to PTA to block blasphemous and hate material on the social media and Internet, The News has learnt. Ministry of information technology (MoIT) has forwarded a summary to PM for […]
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