The recent spate of violent terror attacks across the country has created a gloomy climate and a lingering shadow. But if there is one silver lining amidst these dark times, it’s the impending arrival of the third edition of the music festival, Lahore Music Meet. Some very exciting indie artists will take center stage at […]
Global warming is a serious and immediate threat that the survival of humanity is facing today. Substantial scientific evidence indicates that our Earth is becoming warmer. There are observable changes such as the rise in sea-level, floods, drought, and extinction of species, which are attributable to human emission of greenhouse gases. The increasing concentration of […]
ISLAMABAD: Weakening editorial strength in print and electronic media has adversely impacted regional languages. However, radio remains a bright light among modern media which allots at least 50 per cent of its air time to regional languages. These views were expressed by panellists at a session on the impact of media on mother languages on the […]
Yahudi Ki Ladki is Khaled Ahmad’s homage to both Agha Hashr, the subcontinent’s answer to Shakespeare, and Parsi theatre, of which this play is a classic example. The director’s take on Agha Hashr’s melodrama and Parsi theatre tradition falls spectacularly, then rises magnificently. Karachi: When you’re buying tickets to any National Academy of Performing Arts […]
LITERARY, film and theatre festivals are now very much an essential part of the cultural calendar of Pakistan’s metropolitan cities. Throughout the year, such events take place in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, where literati gather to discuss the questions of the day and artists display their work for the public. However, in the country’s secondary […]
ISLAMABAD: Although Pakistan’s kinnow exports to Indonesia surged to $23 million in 2016 as compared to $3m in 2013 in the wake of a Preferential Trade Agreement, the ongoing export season has been affected by climate change and it is most likely that this year’s target will not be achieved. The chairman of the regional […]
LAHORE: DawnNews television Lahore bureau senior reporter Tauqeer Ghuman died of cardiac arrest here in the wee hours of Sunday. He left behind a son, daughter and widow. His elder brother had also died some six months ago. Mr Ghumman, 43, had been associated with DawnNews since 2011 and was loved for his hard work. […]
Proclaimed by Unesco in November 1999, International Mother Language Day is observed on February 21 worldwide. According to United Nations official website (www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/) this year’s theme of International Mother Language Day is ‘Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education’. In May 2007, the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution A/RES/61/266 called upon member states “to […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday assured the Senate of an effective monitoring mechanism at Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to check obscene, sectarian and immoral content. Winding up discussion on a motion regarding content management by PEMRA, the minister said an appropriate strategy was in […]
The new office-bearers of the Karachi Union of Journalists were elected on Saturday. In the polls that were held at the Karachi Press Club from 9am to 5pm, Hasan Mansoor of The Progressive panel was elected the president with 278 votes. He beat Khurshid Abbasi of The Panel who fetched 212 votes. Shamim Bano and […]
Climate Change is a catastrophe that can be avoided by a combined human action and cooperation, as human civilization has been able to tackle many issues that threatened its well-being and survival in the past. What level of effort and sacrifice has to be made by individual countries and the relative proportion that is to […]
ISLAMABAD: A discussion on the representation of women in literature in various languages of the country quickly devolved into the speakers romanticising fictional women’s acceptance of their subjugation during a session at the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival. The seminar, ‘Treatment and representation of women in mother languages’ literature’ was part of the two-day festival, […]
Noted columnist Zahid Hussain says the wave of bigotry that has overtaken our society, especially over the last decade, would consume it like a giant conflagration Today, anchorpersons advocate killing. The TV has become a jury. Media has become the epicentre of a proxy war. These views were expressed by noted columnist Zahid Hussain while […]
KARACHI: It was exciting to hear that the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) was all geared up to stage Agha Hashar’s classic play Yahoodi Ki Larki. Obviously, we went in with a lot of expectations to witness events in ancient Rome come back to life in the 21st century – a time travel of sorts. […]
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