KARACHI: Sabeen Mahmud taught us how to love – be it the city, music, arts, poetry or each other. A year after the founder of The Second Floor (T2F) was taken away from us, her friends and family share with The Express Tribune the legacy of the woman who loved with a passion and inspired […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national television channel has suffered over Rs1 billion in losses since the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz came into power in 2013. Pakistan Television’s (PTV) current losses stand at Rs1.12 billion, according to documents available with The Express Tribune. The financial position at the state-run broadcaster was way better in 2012-11 when it earned a […]
UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan on Friday signed the Paris Agreement on climate change that commits nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of global warming. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan inked the agreement on behalf of the Government of Pakistan at a high-level ceremony […]
LAHORE: Even though the National Assembly has passed the Cyber Crime Bill, the Federal Investigation Agency is expecting low about the outcome of the new law without public understanding. “It is very good that the bill has been passed by National Assembly and courts will have now comprehensive laws on cyber crimes,” said an officer […]
ISLAMABAD – Social media websites – Facebook and Youtube – are removing objectionable contents on request of Pakistan, sources revealed yesterday. According to top officials, both the sides have removed lots of controversial material on the request of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Both the websites have been cooperating with Pakistan and on our request they have […]
KARACHI – Two persons reportedly died of heatstroke in Karachi on Friday but the health department officials avoided confirming the casualties. Rescue sources informed that a person namely Sharafat Jokhio was found unconscious near the Manghopir Shrine. Receiving information, he was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.Similarly, another person identified […]
MULTAN – Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has called upon journalists to observe journalism’s ethics and demonstrate gender sensitivity while revealing any information or social ills. A three-day workshop, organized by PPF, concluded at local press club on Friday. It was attended by a number of journalists hailing from print and electronic media from across the […]
Karachi The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) was turned into the site of a massive carnival Wednesday evening as Group Fantasma, a Latin Funk Orchestra from Austin, Texas, churned out a memorable performance. The members of the nine-piece Grammy Award-winning group formed in 2000, which rendered Latin American numbers collected from Cuba, […]
LAHORE: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has rejected the formation of judicial or parliamentary commissions to investigate the Panama leaks and instead proposed a national task force to probe into offshore assets of Pakistanis. The prime minister has announced the formation of a judicial panel to investigate the Panama Papers exposé, which has so […]
Earth Day, falling in April 22, was founded in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, a US senator and naturalist and was first celebrated by some 20 million Americans from thousands of schools, colleges and civil society. Though a national event back then, it served as a linchpin for the first global initiative for an action plan […]
NEW YORK – Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will today sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted by more than 190 countries in December last at a high-level ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York. Nisar , who was speaking to US-based Pakistani media on Wednesday evening, said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]
Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar has taken strong exception to the defamatory and slanderous telecasts and publications against him by ARY News through its Programme “News @ 3 with Maria Memon” aired on 16th April 2016. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance here Thursday, spokesperson said that legal notices have been served […]
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has asked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan to put his own house in order before pointing fingers at others. Speaking on private television channels, Rashid countered accusations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family regarding offshore accounts as revealed by the Panama Papers. He said that the papers did not accuse […]
The past week saw an unprecedented consensus being forged across the civil-military and political divides over the need for “across-the-board accountability”. Interestingly, it was the military that took the lead in bringing about this consensus, and political forces, including the PML-N, apparently fell in line. But the questions that are now doing the rounds in […]
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