Karachi: Felicitating the Hindu community on Holi, the Sindh governor and chief minister reiterated the government’s commitment to protect the rights and freedoms of every minority community of Pakistan. In his message issued on Wednesday, Governor Ebad lauded the role being performed by Sindh’s minority communities for progress of the province and nation. Highlighting the […]
OUR economy was never famous for high technology and even in services as a whole the largest export is ‘military services’. This basically comprises reimbursements under the Coalition Support Funds which are oddly classified as an export. But in recent years, software exports and the IT industry more generally had begun to show signs of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) vaulted ahead of other political and religious groups when it launched a mobile app to highlight its philanthropic work among smartphone users. But the app, which was available for download for at least ten days, has now mysteriously disappeared from the Google Play store. FIF is the charitable arm of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency is struggling in all its assigned tasks as the number of pending cases in its National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) is much higher than its overall achievements. Its performance and achievement chart from January 1 to December 31, 2015 reflects huge backlogs and several pending cases which continue […]
ISLAMABAD: Director News Radio Pakistan, Mushtaq Ahmad Kaifi passed away in Islamabad today after protracted illness. He was about fifty-eight. He was admitted at Shifa International Hospital Islamabad for over a month due to different complications. His funeral prayer will be offered tomorrow after Asar prayer in Islamabad. In his illustrious career, he served in […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in collaboration with DANIDA and International Media Support (IMS) is conducting trainings of trainers on journalism skills and journalism thematic reporting in Karachi. International trainer from Sri Lanka Ranga Kalansooriya, Regional Advisor for Asia, IMS will train the journalists participating from different parts of the country. One training on Democracy and […]
Karachi: On the occasion of International Day of Forests, the Pakistan Navy launched a mangroves plantation campaign along the coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan provinces. Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah inaugurated the drive at a ceremony that was attended by a large number of senior military and civil officials, including representatives […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid Monday said the government was committed to the welfare of journalists and independence of media. The government believed in freedom of expression and would continue to support and facilitate the growth of free media, he said while talking to a delegation of Khyber Union […]
LAHORE: Associated Press of Pakistan’s Urdu News Service in-charge Ishtiaq Hussain passed away on Monday. He was laid to rest at a graveyard near his residence in Usman Park Akhri Mint Stop. His funeral prayers was attended by relatives, colleagues and people from different walks of life. Ishiaq Hussain was a member of Lahore Press […]
ISLAMABAD: UK-based WaterAid released a report on the eve of World Water Day, revealing that water quality throughout the world has deteriorated, with Pakistan being no exception. Around 16 million people in Pakistan do not have access to clean water and that there are also inequalities in the cost of the commodity, with the poor […]
LAHORE: An exhibition entitled ‘Flowers of Devotion’ featuring artistic calligraphy of the names of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) by Neyyar Ehsan Rashid opened at the Alhamra Art Gallery, The Mall, on Monday. The well-attended show was inaugurated by former senator Haleem Siddiqui. Abida Gurmani offered dua before the inauguration. Some 300 artworks […]
DI KHAN: A literary society arranged a recitation to celebrate the launch of Google Pashto translator in the main bazaar of Jandola, Frontier Region Tank on Monday. The Bet Nika Pashto Adabi Tolana arranged the mushaira where a large number of Pashto poets gathered to recite poems and celebrate the global recognition of their language. […]
PESHAWAR: About 100,000 saplings were planted by the youth during a plantation drive entitled ‘one tree, one life’ inaugurated by PTI chairman Imran Khan in Regi Model Township here on Monday. One student would be planting one sapling under the initiative, said Imran Khan. He said that it was a great initiative of the Khyber […]
KARACHI: The broadband fever doesn’t seem to be dying down as the number of subscriptions in the country hit almost 30 million after cellular service providers sold nearly one and a half million high-speed mobile internet connections in February 2016, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) revealed on Monday. The number of broadband connections in the […]
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