Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Hassan Ali Khayre, Prime Minster of Somalia to expressed serious concern over the arrest of journalist Omar Ali Hassan after returning from Mogadishu on July 8. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali demanded immediate and unconditional release of Hassan and also urged Somali government must respect journalist’s […]
SOME 50 years ago, a publisher in India began publishing selections from Urdu poetry. Each selection consisted of 100 best couplets of an individual poet. Many such selections were published and it was planned to select 100 best couplets out of those selections. Thus began a trend to select 100 best Urdu couplets of one’s […]
KARACHI: After almost 20 hours of forced detention, captors released on Monday the journalist who had been whisked away on Saturday night. Abdullah Zafar, a staff reporter at The Nation, was taken away during an overnight raid at his house in Lawyers Society, Scheme 33 in the Sacchal area of Karachi. He was then shifted […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed Attorney General Ashther Ausaf to submit details about government advertisements given to print and electronic media after formation of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe PanamaLeaks case within seven days. A three-member special implementation bench on the PanamaLeaks case verdict headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and […]
ISLAMABAD: PTV Managing Director Ahmed Nawaz Sukhera has suspended two senior officials, whose negligence allowed derogatory content targeting Pakhtuns to be aired on PTV Home on Eid day. The two officials, PTV Home producer Sohail Ashraf and script producer Aziz Rana, were found guilty of not censoring a controversial poem that mocked Pakhtuns. The recorded […]
ISLAMABAD: Taking notice of news reports published in Daily Jang and The News, the Supreme Court on Monday issued contempt of court notices to the Jang Group’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, Publisher/Printer Mir Javed Rahman and The News reporter Ahmad Noorani. A three-member special implementation bench on the PanamaLeaks case verdict headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal […]
KARACHI: Mohammad Jameel Ahsan, a poet and calligrapher originally hailing from Multan and now settled in Sweden, praised on Saturday every aspect of life in the welfare state he has been living for 39 years. “For instance, a doctor would go to the waiting patient’s seat, shook his hand so warmly that it would cure […]
KARACHI : The whereabouts of a journalist associated with a national daily are unknown after he was allegedly picked up by “plainclothes security personnel” in the early hours of Sunday. According to his family, Abdullah Zafar, a staff reporter at The Nation, was taken away in an overnight raid at their house in Lawyers Society, […]
LAHORE: Journalist, writer and director Asif Ali Pota died of cardiac arrest here on Saturday. He was 55. Pota was husband of singer Naheed Akhtar. His funeral prayer will be held today (Sunday) after Zohar prayer at 329-Nishtar Block, Allama Iqbal Town. He left behind two wives, four sons and two daughters. Pota started his […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has said that it has come to its notice that a certain channel by the name of “Wesal Urdu” has been inciting violence and hatred against a certain religious sect. It said “Wesal Urdu” is not a licensee of Pemra and no cable operator in Pakistan is running […]
LAHORE: Senior minimalist artist and Women’s Action Forum (WAF) founding member Lala Rukh breathed her last on Thursday afternoon. The 69-year-old artist was diagnosed with cancer last month and died at her home in the city where she lived with her sister. She was among a group of 15 women who stood up against General […]
HYDERABAD: Holding a list of 43 missing persons from Sindh and demanding the state stop committing alleged enforced disappearances, a group of activists has set on a long march from Hyderabad to Karachi. The marchers, led by peasants rights activist Punhal Sario and political activist Mashooq Chandio, reached Tando Muhammad Khan district on Friday. As […]
ISLAMABAD: The Facebook management has assured Pakistan that it will remove fake accounts and explicit, hateful and provocative material that incites violence and terrorism. The commitment was given by Vice President of Facebook Joel Kaplan who called on Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan here on Friday. “Facebook… has reiterated its commitment to keep the […]
The Punjab Environment Department has bought five monitoring stations for four big industrial cities-Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Chakwal-to measure air pollution. “One air pointer is already installed in Lahore while another has been established near Sahiwal Coal Power Plant for continuous monitoring of air,” said Secretary Environment Protection Department Captain Saif Anjum while addressing a […]
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