Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Abdulla Yameen, President of Maldives expressed concern over the harassment on ‘Maldives Independent’, an English language daily newspaper. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Maldives to immediately stop harassing the media and assure the Maldives Independent editor Zaheena Rasheed that […]
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Friday issued notices to the federal and provincial governments on a petition challenging the Cybercrime Act. Advocate Ishtiaq Chaudhary of Pakistan Awami Tehreek filed the petition. He said several provisions of the law were in violation of fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution. The lawyer argued that the law could […]
LAHORE: A team of Google executives from Singapore visited Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to hold a session on ‘Google for Publishers.’ According to a press release issued on Friday, the team comprised Waqas Burney, manager, Strategic Online Partnerships for Web, South Asia, Ahmad Shah Nawaz, manager, Strategic Online Partnerships for Mobile Apps, South […]
Children in Pakistan continue to be engaged in various forms of child labour at a very tender age, especially in large cities. It may not be much of a surprise then that Pakistan has been ranked third in the world with the highest prevalence of child and forced labour. As far as the International Labour […]
The current refugee crisis in Europe is not the only event that debunks the myth of Western civilisation’s high moral standards of human rights, by bringing out the dark side of the ‘developed world’. While the war in Syria brought the dichotomy out in the open, under the bureaucratic procedures that developed Western countries have […]
KARACHI: The National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) will stage Aasman Se Gira, an Urdu adaptation of Ken Ludwig’s play Lend Me a Tenor, from Sept 22 to Oct 2. This was announced by artistic director of the Napa Repertory Theatre Zain Ahmed at a press conference on Friday. Speaking to the media, director of […]
KARACHI: People come and go but there are very few whose memory never fades was a general perception of speakers and participants at the condolence reference held for Zaheer Ahmed Khan in Dawn’s Newsroom on Friday. Nizamuddin Siddiqui describing the sweetness and compassion of the deceased recited a few couplets of Ghalib expressing the short […]
PESHAWAR: Ghazal singer Munni Begum enthralled fans in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with her melodious voice during her first-ever performance in the city on Thursday night. A large number of people poured into the venue at Pearl Continental Hotel to watch the spellbinding performance. Through a two-hour long performance, Munni Begum captivated audiences and proved that her talent […]
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