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Daily Archives: May 22, 2016

Solar panels yet to take off

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KARACHI: Energy-starved Pak­­is­­tan, where sunlight is avail­able for up to 10 hours for a better part of the year, particularly in Sindh, Balochistan and southern Punjab, can benefit immensely from solar energy technology, Inam ur Rahman, CEO Reon Energy Limited, told Dawn on Saturday. “While the potential is for 250,000 megawatts, through prudent policies the […]


Pemra pulls the plug

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WHERE self-regulation fails, the situation opens the door to outside attempts to steer the debate. Unfortunately, that seems to have happened with Pakistan’s electronic media industry, which has in recent times been increasingly in the cross hairs of Pemra, the electronic media regulator. On Friday, Pemra chairman Absar Alam said his organisation had pulled the […]


Pemra bans airing crime shows, raid-based programmes from first of Ramazan

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Friday decided to ban re-enactment of crime shows, raids violating privacy of the people, telecast names of rape victims on electronic media from first of Ramazan. Addressing a press conference here Chairman Pemra Absar Alam said that the Authority had been receiving complaints from the viewers about […]