PESHAWAR: A group of youngsters have introduced an android application through which voters can keep track of the performance of their elected representatives. The launching of the app ‘TrackReps’ was announced at the Peshawar Press Club on Thursday. The app aims to make public all existing data relating to any provincial assembly member and his performance ever […]
RAWALPINDI: Journalists from ARY News, Bol TV, and 92 News were allegedly manhandled by PML-N workers and supporters covering the former prime minister’s rally in Islamabad on Wednesday. Safdar Klasra, a reporter with Bol TV, told Dawn that he was taking a photo of an ambulance that was stuck in traffic near the Faizabad interchange. […]
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Defence Housing Authority, Clifton Cantonment Board and others to file comments on a petition against dumping of sewage and industrial waste into the sea. Petitioners World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan), Citizens for Better Environment (Shehri – CBE), Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and […]
Karachi-One of Pakistan’s top actors and models, Ahsan Khan is currently working on a book that deals with the problem of child sexual abuse. “I have always had great love for children,” says Ahsan Khan. “Their welfare and happiness is very important to me. When I was preparing for my role as a sexual predator […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued directives to all cable TV operators across Pakistan not to violate laws and to refrain from being part of any illegal activities, including, but not limited to disturbing, shuffling or re-positioning the transmission of Pemra’s licensed TV channels, illegally off-airing of transmission and complete suspension […]
FAISALABAD: In a horrific incident that occurred in a village in Nankana Sahib, a female domestic aide was burnt alive by her employer, a feudal landlord, on Wednesday. Saddar Police Station SHO Amjad Ali told The Express Tribune that 35-year-old Fozia Bibi, a mother of five and a resident of Chak No 563, had borrowed some money from […]
ISLAMABAD: The cutting down and burning of forests has contributed as much to global warming as the burning of fossil fuels and efforts are being made to re-vitalise the forestry sector, said Federal Climate Change Minister Mushahid Ullah Khan on Tuesday. “We cannot protect the country from the devastating impacts of climate change unless deforestation […]
Nabila launches Zero, a tweaked and reinvented version of her No Makeup palette for an international market. Nabila can easily be credited for reinventing and setting new standards for fashion and style in Pakistan – giving much needed facelifts to fashion weeks, award show red carpets and the generally fashionably challenged. This weekend she reinvented […]
MITHI: Three persons were whisked away from their homes in different areas of Mithi town during pre-dawn raids on Tuesday. They were identified as educationalist and rights activist Partab Shivani, writer and government schoolteacher Naseer Kumbhar and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz local leader Mohammad Umer Unnar. Talking to local reporters, relatives of Mr Shivani and […]
HYDERABAD: An antiterrorism court on Tuesday remanded a journalist and president of the Sehwan Press Club in judicial custody for 14 days under the Antiterrorism Act for allegedly beating a policeman in the command and control room of Qalandar Lal Shahbaz’s shrine on Monday. The Sehwan police registered an FIR (No. 119/17) on Monday night […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has directed the state-run PTV to broadcast live proceedings of the National Assembly. In a meeting on Monday, the new prime minister directed Marriyum Aurangzeb, the State Minister for Information, to broadcast live on PTV the National Assembly proceedings so that the nation could know the perspective of both […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) issued a show cause notice to ARY News on the complaint of a staff reporter associated with NEO TV, Shakir Younas Abbasi. The complainant alleged while airing the press conference of MNA Ayesha Gulalai and subsequent reports on August 1 and August 2, 2017, the TV channel […]
KARACHI: The satisfaction of having achieved his goal reflected in Shahzad Qureshi’s face as he gazed at the trees he planted some 20 months ago. Inspired by Indian eco-entrepreneur Shubhendu Sharma, whose company develops native and urban forest in cities, Qureshi immediately decided to implement the idea in Karachi in a park adjacent to Neher-e-Khayam in […]
درخواستوں کی وصولی کے لئے دوسرا اعلان آخری تاریخ 20 اگست 2017ء پاکستان پریس فاؤنڈیشن (پی پی ایف) کی جانب سے فیلوشپ برائے تحقیقاتی رپورٹنگ کےلئے درخواستیں موصول کی جارہی ہیں۔ فیلوشپس کے لئے درخواستوں کی موصولی “پاکستان میں تحقیقاتی صحافت میں معاونت” کے پراجیکٹ کا حصہ ہیں جس کا مقصد تحقیقاتی صحافت کو فروغ […]
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