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Daily Archives: June 20, 2016

Pakistani music producer wins international award

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Karachi Sharif Awan, an internationally acclaimed music connoisseur from Pakistan, has been awarded a gold medal at the Global Music Awards in California, USA, according to a press release of the Tehzeeb Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to preserving the musical heritage and culture of the Indo-Pak subcontinent, apart from popularising South Asian classical music. […]


Anchor Hamza Abbasi sacked

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KARACHI: On the direction of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) a private news channel has immediately sacked anchor Hamza Ali Abbasi. The CEO of the private news channel revealed that Hamza Ali Abbasi had been sacked from the channel and extreme care would be taken in future in this regard. He expressed these views […]


NAB raids ex-Balochistan finance adviser’s house in DHA

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Karachi A team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on early Sunday morning conducted a raid on the house of former Adviser to Chief Minister Balochistan on Finance, Khalid Langov, in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority area. As per a Geo News report, the team had recovered important documentary evidence pertaining to an ongoing corruption scandal […]


‘Ship breaking activities harming marine, coastal ecosystem’

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ISLAMABAD: Environmental experts and other stakeholders on Sunday pledged to combine their efforts to achieve sustainable ship breaking activities which will ensure the conservation and protection of coastal and marine ecosystems in the coastal areas of the country. Experts at a national consultative policy workshop titled ‘Sustainable and Environmentally Sound Management of Waste from Ship […]


FIA unearths another online fraud

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LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has unearthed another online fraud in which hundreds of people were fleeced on the promise of getting jobs. The FIA received a complaint that a fake company was advertising online and also in newspapers promising to provide ‘online job’ to those getting registered with it against Rs4,000. “We raided […]


Channel offers apology to Rehman Malik for hurling insults

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ISLAMABAD: Hearing at Pemra was held into the complaints filed by President Mamnoon Hussain, Chairman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Relations Committee Sardar Owais Leghari, former interior minister and Chairman of the Senate’s interior committee Senator Rehman Malik, and father of the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai. According to details, the session of Pemra’s Islamabad Council […]