ISLAMABAD: Talking to journalists here on Saturday, after chairing a party meeting, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan levelled allegations against the Jang Group of supporting the corrupt family. Referring to Shakil-ur-Rahman, he objected to the way, they had given coverage with reference to the Panama case. He asked was this the job of a media […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday adopted the ‘Sindh Finance Bill 2017-18’ to approve the fiscal budget amounting Rs1.043 trillion with Rs14 billion deficit, despite its rejection by the opposition. Although MQM’s veteran, Syed Sardar Ahmed praised the bill, Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan, opposition leader who also hails from Sardar’s party, loudly turned down the budget, as […]
KARACHI: Sea turtles have survived for millions of years but they now face the threat of extinction, therefore the need for their conservation cannot be emphasised more. This was stated by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) – Pakistan Technical Adviser for Marine Fisheries Muhammad Moazzam Khan on the occasion of World Sea Turtle Day on Friday. […]
Qawwali fans were entertained to a night-long session featuring the most famous names in the art at the Arts Council on Thursday evening. The session, which began at 10:30pm on Thursday lasted till the Sehri time on the following morning. The programme was meant to be a tribute to the late Qawwal Amjad Farid Sabri, […]
LAHORE: FIA’s Anti Human Trafficking Cell (AHTC) Thursday arrested a human smuggler.According to FIA AHTC Deputy Director Muhammad Ahmed, the accused was identified as Rana Gull Ahmad Bahar. He was arrested in a raid. He said fake Spanish passports along with Pakistani passports were recovered from him. According to him, the accused was involved in […]
KARACHI: A sketch of Hollywood actor, Morgan Freeman, hangs among other sketches of Pakistani and Indian artistes inside a small workshop owned by Jawad Baloch. The 17-year-old’s workshop in Lyari’s Baghdadi area came into focus recently when some of his ‘seniors’, as he calls them, came to meet him one day and after finding his […]
For the first time in the history of Pakistan, Astola Island, located about 39 kilometres east of Pasni, Balochistan, in the Arabian Sea, has been declared the first dedicated Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the country. Covering an area of about 400 square kilometers, Astola is considered the largest island along the coast of Pakistan, […]
Today, the Islamabad High Court(IHC), in compliance with the the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s order dated 31st May 2017 passed in the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) petition, passed final order in a writ petition No. 4098/2013, after hearing all the parties. The petitioner had prayed to the court to issue directions for censoring programmes telecast […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on Nickelodeon (nick) for showing indecent content in its episode. The Emperor’s Throne of the cartoon series Winx Club. In the episode a cartoon character is shown indecently dressed. After airing of the content Pemra had issued a show cause notice […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday once again directed the interior ministry and the Federal Investigation Agency to file their comments on a constitutional petition of civil rights campaigners against the alleged ongoing crackdown on social media activists under the garb of action against those who criticise national security agencies. Headed by Justice Hasan […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: The government managed on Tuesday to secure the National Assembly’s approval for the Finance Bill 2017 in record time, thanks to the opposition’s continued boycott of the budget session. In the opposition’s absence, there was no debate on cut motions either — the first time in the country’s parliamentary history that no cut motions […]
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