Theatregoers will be in for some hearty laughs as the story of a Memon mamu (maternal uncle) and his bhanja (nephew), who have lost all their wealth in a stock market crash, will unfold during the play ‘Latri Jo Lafro’ that starts on Wednesday (today) at the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa). At a […]
In an extraordinary press conference on Monday, Pemra Chairman Absar Alam detailed the campaign of intimidation and threats being carried out against him and his employees for daring to do their duty of regulating the media. Alam played a recording of a threatening phone call made to a Pemra employee. This is not the first […]
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers on Tuesday called for implementing the blasphemy law and were of the view that the cyber-crime legislation should be amended to empower the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take action against those found guilty of spreading sacrilegious content on the internet. The suggestions were made by the MNAs during a meeting of the National […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of Republic of the South Sudan to express concerned over the suspension of Al-Jazeera English bureau in Juba by South Sudan’s Media Authority on May 1, 2017. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged government of South Sudan in order […]
Wahab Shah, a dance artist/choreographer, who has been a member of the field for many years, is one of the most sought after names in the business. When it comes to popular award shows and large scale corporate events across Pakistan, he is a wanted man. His crowning moment was choreographing the closing act of […]
LAHORE: The country’s mango production will considerably drop this year, as the climate change factor has badly affected a majority of fruit farms and orchards, lowering the yield especially in southern parts of Punjab. Since Pakistan’s last year mango production was reported to be 1.7 million ton with two-third and one-third share of Punjab and […]
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yet again on Monday to discuss issues surrounding a notification with regard to the Dawn Leaks controversy in the light of recommendations by an inquiry committee. This was Nisar’s fourth meeting with the premier in the last three days, with the two sides […]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Absar Alam said on Monday that he and other officials of the media watchdog were receiving death threats by some unidentified people for taking action against some TV channels. Addressing a press conference at the Pemra head office here, he urged the prime minister, chief […]
MUZAFFARGARH: A woman who was allegedly burnt by her husband on April 2 for giving birth to a girl died in the Nishtar Hospital Multan on Sunday after fighting for life for 35 days. The incident had taken place at Chowk Sarwar Shaheed in Chak 589-TDA. According to the first information report, Muhammad Sajid and […]
ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif broke ground on the Peshawar Morr-New Islamabad International Airport section of the Metro Bus on Saturday, nearby work continued on removing obstacles in the path of this progress: dozens of trees. According to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study of the MBS project conducted by the National Engineering Services Pakistan […]
KARACHI: Minister of State for Broadcasting and Information Marriyum Aurangzeb has asserted on Sunday that a detailed revised notification over Dawn Leaks probe report would be issued either tomorrow or day after tomorrow. While talking to the media in Karachi, the minister said that the Ministry of the Interior would issue the revised notification within […]
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that the government believes in freedom of expression and it will ensure such right in the country at every level, Radio Pakistan reported. Addressing a meeting of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) in Karachi on Sunday afternoon, she said that Audit Bureau of […]
Democracy cannot flourish without the freedom of the press. Freedom of expression is imperative to the development of a country and a society. These views were expressed by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while speaking as the chief guest at the first session of a seminar titled, “Critical minds at critical times”, which […]
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has proposed 24 new development projects for inclusion into the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the upcoming budget 2017-18 with estimated cost of Rs2,070.422 million, including Rs150 million for placing code of conduct for media and Rs48 million for establishment of TV channel ranking and data centre. The […]
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