The much celebrated vibrancy in our media needs a bit of a pause and urgently too for a self-obligatory introspection to see how we are doing on the credibility and integrity aspects—the most essential media characteristics—and self-correct lapses that may have appeared as side-effects that go hand-in-hand when the much needed sense of responsibility gets […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists from India and Pakistan at the 17th Chaophraya Dialogue on Thursday welcomed the recent meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Paris on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Climate Change, and expressed the hope that this could lead to a revival of bilateral dialogue. They […]
ISLAMABAD: The much touted Right to Information (RTI) law in Punjab is becoming a toothless piece of legislation as the top government officials are disregarding the orders of Punjab Information Commission by continuously blocking public access to information. Almost 50 days have passed since the commission unanimously ordered the Governor House officials to share information […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Pervaiz Rashid on Thursday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s statement of planting 100 million trees was just an addition to his false claims. “Either there was no existence of these trees or the resources of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government were being plundered under the garb of […]
HYDERABAD: Our everyday lives depend on the use of technological gadgets, a student of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology seeks to use the technology to benefit people’s health. Dr Atiya Baqai has endeavoured to allow people to make use of the wireless body area network (WBAN) by overcoming the problems associated with it. Lacking: […]
KARACHI: Iqbal Hussain is an honest artist, in whose works you get to see what he is. His teacher from National College of Arts (NCA), Adil Salahuddin, said this while commenting on the artist and his works at Spaces Gallery on Tuesday. “With Hussain’s work, you get to see what he is,” said Salahuddin. “There […]
ISLAMABAD: All over the world, utmost care is taken to ensure that special children are not hurt mentally. But around 200 special children on Thursday had to wait for the arrival of the recently-appointed Minister for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD), Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, at a function for one-and-a-half hours. The function, which was […]
LAHORE: WWF-Pakistan organised its environmental journalists quarterly meeting to sensitise media on the recent order of the Lahore High Court (LHC) in the big cats case and highlight the importance of COP21 and climate change. WWF-Pakistan appreciated the LHC’s order of November 20, 2015, where the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was directed to ensure […]
ISLAMABAD: The country is lagging behind other nations in terms of listing its cultural sites to the global list of heritage sites. With six sites on the World Heritage List of UNESCO and 18 on a tentative list, Pakistan has no natural or mixed heritage sites on the list. This was stated by Information, Broadcasting […]
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