KARACHI: Ni main kusamba chun chun haari [I am tired of picking up safflower] The first line of a kafi about plight of flower pickers by Bulleh Shah gives it the façade of a tale of sorrow. However, a closer reading exposes the social forces involved in exploiting women who plucked flowers. The narrator’s awareness of […]
Scores of music lovers thronged the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) to enjoy a concert featuring Sangat, an ensemble of musicians from the University of Texas (UT), Austin, and NAPA on Friday night. The concert showcased the success of a three-year university partnership between the two schools, supported by a Rs 100 million US […]
KARACHI: The regulatory authority has allowed telecom operators including the 3G and 4G mobile phone internet service providers that they can share their networks with competitors in order to make the best commercial use of the allocated spectrums among them. In this regard, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) unveiled the Spectrum Trading Framework on Friday. For […]
LAHORE: The progressive judgment by a full bench of Lahore High Court declaring that broadcasters are eligible for Direct-to-Home (DTH) Satellite TV licenses is an important guideline to Pemra to correct its policy since 2009 that has retarded growth of Pakistan broadcast industry. The retarding impact of Pemra Rules 2009 that barred broadcasters from owning […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) will launch an interactive learning programme for ensuring implementation of the Code of Conduct. It has been titled: ‘The Code of Conduct: A Collective Responsibility.’ It will be an interaction with media houses and journalists from the second week of January 2017. The purpose of this initiative […]
KARACHI: The man who painted city heroes outside the walls of Karachi Press Club saw his hard work ruined before his eyes when some politico-religious groups vandalised the walls on Thursday. “If they do it five times, I will redo the painting myself five times,” said artist Haider Ali, the chief executive officer at Phool Patti. […]
The walls of Karachi Press Club — which had recently been painted with colourful murals of several progressive civil society activists and journalists — were vandalised last night allegedly by members of politico-religious parties. The messages left by the vandals were spray-painted over the portraits of nearly all women activists featured on the wall. Though […]
LAHORE: Members of the Ahmadiyya community who fled their village in the wake of the storming of their worship place and a subsequent clash on Dec 12 have started trickling back to their homes in Chakwal’s Dulmail area. Upon their return, the Ahmadi villagers are facing a social boycott imposed by the locals. Most of the […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar on Thursday summoned an Islamabad additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) and the records of the case of a child employed as a maid and allegedly abused by the judge and his wife. The Supreme Court summoned ADSJ Raja Khurram Ali Khan his wife Maheen Zafar along with […]
SHIKARPUR – An oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected office- bearers of Shikarpur Press Club was held at the club’s premises on Thursday. Agha Masihuddin Durrani, District Chairman, administered oath to the office-bearers and members of the executive committee, namely President Sodho Jemas, Vice President Shahid Ali Mithani, General Secretary Rahim Bux Jamali, Joint Secretary Sikandar […]
KARACHI: One was expecting that the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) students’ presentation of Italian songs and poems on the moon on Thursday evening would be a tad dissimilar from what they were able to pull off in September last year, and they lived up to expectation. This time round their performance at the […]
KARACHI: Syed Ghazanfar Uddin, a journalist and former senior sub-editor of Dawn, passed away on Thursday. He was in his mid-90s. Mr Ghazanfar joined Dawn in 1978 and served the organisation till 2002. He is survived by his wife, two sons and seven daughters. His funeral prayers would be offered after Friday prayers at Noorani […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu notice of alleged torture of a child maid working in the household of a judge in the federal capital. Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar took the notice a day after the father of the 10-year-old housemaid, Tayyaba, ‘forgave’ Additional District & Sessions Judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has sought replies from columnist Ansar Abbasi and the printer and publisher of Jang Group – Mir Shakilur Rahman and Javedur Rahman – over a contempt of court petition. The three respondents have been directed to submit their replies on February 6. While hearing an application moved by Mazhar Ali […]
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