ISLAMABAD – While Ministry of Information and Technology is busy in reviewing the proposed prevention of electronic crime bill 2015, the stakeholders believe that cyber crime was not really the core issue for a country like Pakistan, where a mere 10 percent population use internet, but cyber terrorism and cyber wars. “We have no updated […]
Village life used to be very simple and sweet. Farmers would share their views with one another in a hujra or some other common place after toiling all day in the fields. The only window open to them to learn what was going on in the world outside happened to be the noble and honest […]
A spokesman for the Information Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has asked all those proprietors and publishers of all newspapers and advertising agencies, which had registered their newspapers and advertising agencies with the department for the year 2014 or 2015 to register and renew the registration of their newspapers and agencies within one week. He made […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved funds for broadcasting Senate proceedings and Standing Committees through Webcasting and a dedicated FM radio. In addition the Finance Committee also approved financial and human resources for the think-tank, Senate Forum for Policy Research (SFPR) and incentives for secretariat assistants, sub-assistants, junior assistants and security guards, gunmen and […]
ISLAMABAD: Transparency International Pakistan team, associated with the Prime Minister Office on premier’s request, has submitted to the PM Nawaz Sharif a detailed anti-corruption strategy which includes seeking early enactment of three laws including Whistleblower Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act and Right to Public Service Act to check the menace of corruption. Along with […]
ISLAMABAD: Senior officials admitted on Tuesday that they had no effective legal mechanism to take down or block access to the website of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the banned outfit involved in most of the terrorist activities in the country. It was the TTP that claimed responsibility for the Dec 16 attack on the Army […]
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that freedom of expression and difference of opinion was in-fact the established democratic norms and we would always welcome constructive criticism in all walks of life. Literary and journalist community could greatly contribute in moulding the public opinion on various issues and solving the public grievances. In his […]
Radio Pakistan is a symbol of our statehood and nationalism. We should never consider it a burden on the state coffers. Nor we should take it as a purely commercial organisation. It has helped to produce a plethora of artists, singers and musicians from all around our beloved homeland. It has in its repository many […]
KARACHI: Dr. Nazir S. Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC) has expressed concerns over safety and security of Christian journalists in Balochistan after a threatening letter was sent to Quetta Press Club by an extremist organization, says a press release issued by Central Secretariat of Pakistan Christian Congress. The letter sent by an outfit […]
Karachi: Given the tainted reputation of province’s cops for violating the fundamental rights of individuals, the police department has developed module focusing on human rights for them. In recent years, the demand for policing within the ambit of human rights has increased exponentially as the media has highlighted cases where human rights were violated and […]
Confining knowledge to the powerful class as a means of maintaining political and economic clout is known as monopoly of knowledge. This theory was first suggested by Harold Adam Innis (1894-1952), distinguished Canadian thinker and political economist. In one of his theories of communication, Innis applied the economic theory of monopolies to the concept of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Paki-stan Electronic Media Regu-latory Authority (Pemra) has issued a Letter of Intent (LoI) to hire a Swiss firm for initiation of Direct to Home (DTH) licensing in Pakistan Pemra in its ad published in newspapers on Oct 30, 2014 had solicited proposals from international firms to hire a consultant. Five firms submitted their […]
ISLAMABAD: Capt Shujaat Azeem, special assistant to the prime minister on aviation, has served a defamation notice on ARY News channel President Salman Iqbal and host of programme ‘Khara Such’ Mubasher Lucman for airing series of orchestrated programmes based on malice and bare faced lies. In his notice dated February 25, 2015, served through renowned […]
For some people, identities forged through extremist viewpoints have always been fringe ones. The US war on terror, however, has turned extremist tendencies into global currency. Though not limited to any one country, this reevaluation carries larger implications for Pakistan than for any other country. One manifestation of this phenomenon is the emerging lot of […]
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