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Daily Archives: June 9, 2016

Two missing children meet parents during Geo’s ‘Pak Ramazan’ programme

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KARACHI: The live special broadcast of Geo ‘Pak Ramazan’ is becoming popular due to its uniqueness as host Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain helped in rejoining the two missing children with their parents during this programme on Wednesday. Dr Amir invited two children, living at shelter homes, to the first ‘Pak Ramazan’ programme on Tuesday and […]


Word on the street: Bringing graffiti art into mainstream

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KARACHI: The very fact that I was discouraged by friends around me that artists have no future and no one wants to marry one, worked as a stimulator. I wanted to prove them wrong, said 26-year-old graffiti artist, Abdullah Ahmed Khan. Popularly referred to as Sanki King, a name he picked up and stuck to […]


A day for the environment

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The World Environment Day observed on June 5 every year is, like planting a few trees or shutting the lights off for an hour, an act of tokenism. Spending one day a year holding seminars and hearing government officials pontificate about their duty to the environment is not going to do anything to heal our […]


FO REJECTS NEWS ITEM REGARDING MINISTRY’S SENIOR FUNCTIONARIES

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ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday rejected as “totally false, irresponsible and unfounded” a news story carried by a certain section of the media regarding senior functionaries of the ministry. “It may also be noted that an unintended consequence of such stories could be seriously detrimental to the functioning of state institutions mandated […]


First book on beat reporting in Pakistan launched

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Lahore Press Club on June 1, 2016 organized the launching ceremony of a book entitled “Reporting” on journalism. The book was written by Shahbaz Akamal Jandran and published by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF). The book is very interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking for media persons, as it contains over 140 beats and more than 5,500 […]