ISLAMABAD: Members of the transgender community will file a petition in the Supreme Court challenging a government move to ignore them as a separate gender in the census form in clear violation of the apex court’s 2009 judgment. On Saturday, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) was informed that the government had not included transgender as […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to put an end to India’s illegal DTH business. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Chairman Absar Alam has told The News that from October 15, civil and army intelligence, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) will launch a joint operation clean-up India’s illegal DTH business. […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman to expressed concern over the ruling of the court to permanently shut down Azamn newspaper and send three of its journalists to prison, including editor-in-chief the newspaper. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged Sultan of […]
Agriculture and climate experts joined hands to work together on agro-ecological zones in line with climate change effects on crops, changing weather pattern, soil fertility and deteriorating underground water quality. The meeting was chaired by University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan while Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan Vice […]
Ever since the news of the surgical strike broke out, hackers in India are gearing up for a cyber war. According to reports, they are waiting for the government’s ‘approval’ to target Pakistan’s cyber infrastructure. “We are trying to enter into their critical establishments after the Pathankot attack. We got the access to ‘gov.pk’ websites. […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) imposed a fine of half a million rupees on a private television channel for airing false accusations about the NAB chairman. According to a statement issued by the media watchdog, the fine has been imposed on Channel 92 with reference to its current affairs programme Muqabil. The accusation […]
The government has not yet officially issued any directives to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to ban Indian channels, films, plays and other contents on the Pakistani channels in the wake of escalation of tension between the two countries, PEMRA sources said on Saturday. However, the sources added that the decision to ban illegal […]
KARACHI: While in the game of cricket we are seeing more and more left-handed players, the left-leaning in society are growing even fewer by the day. The existing political landscape is all draped in various hues of right. It wasn’t always so. As for politics of the Left, there was a vibrant and organised party structure […]
Islamabad: The ministry of climate change is approaching the Planning Commission as well as other international climate change funding channels like Green Climate Fund to get funds required for work on various ongoing projects. The spokesman for the climate change ministry said the ongoing project include sustainable and green cities, sustainable land management programme to […]
KARACHI: The Pakistani cinemas have stopped screening Indian films after an escalation of violence in Kashmir between Pakistan and India, theatre owners said on Friday. “We have stopped screening Indian movies at our cinemas from Friday till the situation improves and normalcy returns,” said Nadeem Mandviwalla, whose Mandviwalla Entertainment runs eight cinemas in Karachi and […]
KARACHI: The release date for Haissam Hussain’s directorial debut Balu Mahi has been set and announced for February 10, 2017, the weekend before Valentine’s Day. According to a press release, supermodel Sadaf Kanwal will be making her film debut with Balu Mahi in the film, which brings forth the first-time coupling of model-actor Ainy Jaffri and […]
KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Friday said none of the provinces was eager to conduct a fresh child labour survey even though the last survey was conducted 20 years ago. They said useful social protection policies that were sensitive to children’s needs were needed in Pakistan to eradicate child labour. The seminar “A child […]
PESHAWAR: Finding a piece of land to build a home in the provincial metropolis can be relatively easy, but securing a final resting place is harder still with graveyards now running out of room – especially for minorities. Escalating land prices, encroachment, urbanisation and population growth are constricting the city’s cemeteries and at many of these […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra)’s council of complaints, Islamabad, on Friday imposed a fine of Rs500,000 (Rs0.5m) on Channel 92 for airing baseless and contrary to facts analysis on its show ‘Mukabil’ against the NAB chairman. The council, under its chairperson Shamim Humayun, deliberated upon the matter, after the NAB’s deputy chairman […]
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