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Daily Archives: January 2, 2016

PID purges central media list of ‘dummy’ publications

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ISLAMABAD: The Press Information Department (PID) has removed 250 ‘dummy’ newspapers and periodicals from its central media list (CML), and plans to get rid of another 730 fake publications over January, according to a senior official from the information ministry. Following the purge, the number of periodicals on the CML will decrease from around 2,000 […]


Rahat sent back to UAE from India over ‘technical flaws’

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HYDERABAD (India): Accla­i­med singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was in for a rude shock when he touched down at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday. Within moments of landing in Hyderabad on an Emirates flight, he was barred entry and asked to return to Abu Dhabi. The singer had travelled to the […]


Wildlife dept finds no legal way to rescue ‘protected’ animals at carnival

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KARACHI: Although experts are calling for an action and rescue of the ‘protected animals’ kept in miserable conditions at a family festival where they are currently being used for public entertainment, the wildlife department staff has expressed its “inability to act”, it emerged on Friday. The carnival in progress in Gulistan-i-Jauhar for some two weeks […]


Book on communist politics in Pakistan launched

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KARACHI: The major failure of the communist movement in Pakistan was that Marxism was taken as an engineering manual by communist parties. Marxism is a science. It should be applied creatively to society, which was not done. This was the point raised by Director of Pakistan Study Centre, the University of Karachi, Dr Syed Jaffer […]


IBA preserves its history for generations to come

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KARACHI: The mark the 60 years of Institute of Business Administration (IBA), the institute decided to preserve its history on the shelves for the generations to come. The faculty, students, alumni, board of governors came together to attend the launch of the book, titled ‘Chronicling Excellence: A history of IBA Karachi’, on the last sunset […]