KARACHI: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has promised to plant 5,000 trees across the entire neighbourhood in exchange for the five 50-year-old trees that it chopped down last week to widen a road. Four members of the Institute of Architects Pakistan (IAP) met DHA administrator Brigadier Zubair Ahmed on Tuesday afternoon at his office, three […]
SHABQADAR: When Mehboob Shah Afridi died in a suicide blast on January 19 in Jamrud, Khyber Agency, he became the 14th journalist from the tribal areas to lose his life while in the field since 9/11. Pakistan is one of the most dangerous places for journalists in the world and the situation is far more […]
KARACHI: An engaging conversation, a witty sense of humour and a love for the Urdu language. These are all part of the offering each time Zehra Nigah sits down to talk. And at the Habib University on Wednesday, while addressing students, professors and lovers of Urdu adab, she shared her passion for the Urdu classics […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has expressed concern over what it says is a rising trend of broadcasting objectionable content in crime re-enactment shows. Pemra issued an advice to TV channels on Wednesday on the basis of recommendations of its Councils of Complaints (COC) which held a joint meeting on Monday. Pemra […]
ISLAMABAD: Despite delivering an emotionally charged speech in favour of the proposed Hindu marriage law, National Assembly Standing Committee Law and Justice Chairman Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk could not convince members of the committee to approve the bill, on Wednesday. In his speech at the ‘National Conference on Hindu Marriage Bill’, the PML-N MNA recounted […]
KARACHI: On Monday, the KP Home Department issued a letter on the request of the KP Apex Committee, asking the federal government to ban all live coverage of terrorist incidents.The Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) says it realises the nation is going through a very challenging time and the entire country has to come together including […]
National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat has unanimously approved “The Disabled Persons Employment and Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2014” to facilitate the disabled in government and private sector jobs. The committee meeting was held with Asad Umar in the chair at Parliament House on Tuesday. It said that the bill is aimed at making physical […]
KARACHI: Pakistan is the eighth country most vulnerable to climate change in the world. The coastal areas are the most emergent threats and hundreds of kilometres area is susceptible to sea intrusion. This was revealed by Karachi University institute of environmental studies registrar and professor Dr Moazzam Ali Khan during a climate conference on Monday. […]
Journalists and activists in Pakistan faced an increasingly hostile climate in 2015 due to harassment, threats and violence from both the state and militant groups, according to Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday. In the 659-page World Report 2016, which has reviewed human rights practices in more than 90 countries, HRW says the government […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Text Book Board (STBB), Jamshoro has introduced a book on ethics for non-Muslim students from class seven. The book, which covers different religions and ethical values, will become part of coursework at government schools for minorities’ students from the new academic year of 2016-2017 starting from April 1 this year. The book, […]
KARACHI: In its seventh year, the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) will be recognising Urdu fiction and non-fiction works for the first time. Festival co-founder Ameena Saiyid of the Oxford University Press announced at a press conference at Arts Council on Tuesday that this is the first time they will be handing out an Urdu fiction […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression in a letter to Mr. Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina expressed concern over attack at home of Sergio Hurtado, radio journalist of Argentina who reported on drug trafficking and rape of his wife. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali […]
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As the death toll from malnutrition in draught-hit Tharparkar topped 100, Sindh Health Minister Jam Mehtab Dahar said on Monday the media was ‘misreporting’ the number of children’s deaths in the high arid district. Official estimates put the death toll around 112, with over 100 deaths reported in January alone, but Dahar maintained that the […]
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