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Daily Archives: May 10, 2016

Pakistanis stash $50b in offshore companies

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Washington – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Monday published online detailed data from the Panama Papers trove on more than 200,000 secret offshore companies, which contains names of many more Pakistanis. The searchable database built on just a portion of the documents leaked from the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca reveals more than […]


Print, electronic media urged to refrain from airing or publishing baseless stories

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ISLAMABAD: The Principal Information Office (PIO) Rao Tehsin Ali Khan has written a letter to the Editors of the Newspapers and News Agencies and Director News of the TV channels requesting them to refrain from airing or publishing baseless news. Contradicting a news item aired by some TV channels, he said that no meeting was […]


Fire damages offices of SCBA President, SC Reporters’ Association

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The offices of President, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), and apex court reporters’ association, besides an adjacent room were damaged when a fire broke out due to short circuit, here on Monday morning. Apex court reporters’ association office and president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Syed Ali Zafar’s office and an adjacent room was […]


Shab-o-Roz under way at Koel art gallery

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KARACHI: One of the interesting things about sculptural forms is that their tactility or their tactile nature allows the viewer not only to visualise the dimensions that the artist aspires to work with but also feel them to a degree that the visualisation assumes a concrete shape then and there. An exhibition of Fahim Rao’s […]


The killing of Khurram Zaki

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Pakistan has been drifting in the direction of intolerance and extremism for decades, a move jump-started by the Zia regime and rolled back by no regime since. There is now a normative acceptance of intolerance that is so deep as to be institutionalised, a part of the national genetic code. A segment of that skein […]


24 press officer inducted for foreign posting

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ISLAMABAD: Interviews for the lucrative foreign posting of 24 press officers are being held tomorrow at the Ministry of Information despite strong protest by a number of Information Group officers who have urged the government to cancel the process owing to alleged massive irregularities. At least 10 officers of Information Group have written representations to […]


Photojournalists stage demo against torture of colleague

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MULTAN: Members of the Multan Photojournalists Association on Monday staged a demonstration against the alleged torture of their colleague by three security guards of the Nishtar Hospital. The protesters led by Multan Photojournalists Association chairman Shadab Anwar Amrohi staged a demonstration outside the press club. They demanded action against the accused security guards. Speaking on […]