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Daily Archives: June 15, 2017

PTV asked to augment children’s contents in programmes

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ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to augment children content in the programmes of all PTV channels. Chairing a consultative meeting on the launch of Children Entertainment Channel here, she asked PTV to submit a detailed and comprehensive time-wise plan for the embedment of […]


FIA arrests two human smugglers

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KARACHI – The Federal Investigation Agency arrested two proclaimed offenders who were involved in human smuggling and swindling people by impersonating to be Prime Minister’s Secretariat officers. The anti-human smuggling cell of FIA made the arrest. The accused have been identified as Raja Zafar Abbas and Raja Mazhar Abbas. Zafar and Mazhar would cheat people […]


An outstanding journalist

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WHILE observing the centenary of the birth of Mazhar Ali Khan, one of Pakistan’s most outstanding newspaper editors, the journalist community would do well to recall, and if possible to reaffirm, the traditions of independent and public-spirited journalism that he and his fellow pioneers had nourished. Mazhar Ali (1917-1993) was well known in his college […]