• September 28, 2017
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI: Sindh during the current year has registered 4,312 cases of Chikungunya against 405 in 2016, said a report issued by provincial health department. The officials concerned as well as seasoned professionals talking to APP attributed the situation to absolute disregard for adequate and safe disposal of garbage and rampant negligence towards sewerage and sanitation. […]

• September 28, 2017
• Governance

KARACHI: The city council on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding that the Sindh and federal governments immediately sanction at least Rs500 billion as a joint package for Karachi’s development. “Karachi is a huge metropolis. It badly needs to rectify its dilapidated infrastructure [so that] people of the sixth most populated city of the world can […]

• September 27, 2017
• Arts and Entertainment

LAHORE ‘: Legendary folk singer Arif Lohar, who has been mostly missing from the limelight barring a few Coke Studio appearances, will be releasing a brand new album right after the month of Muharram. The news comes shortly after other veteran Pakistani singers such as Ustad Hamid Ali Khan and Shabnum Majeed released respective albums as well, thereby reviving […]

• September 27, 2017
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Media Safety

ISLAMABAD: In continuation to ongoing attacks and harassment of critical media persons, now senior journalist Matiullah Jan has been attacked on way to home along with his family in the Bhara Kahu area of the federal capital. Matiullah, one of the leading journalists, was heading home along with his two sons (18 years and 13 […]

• September 27, 2017
• Governance

LAHORE: The process of legislation on compulsory pre-marriage blood screening of couples for thalassaemia has started. The Punjab Thalassaemia Prevention and Treatment Programme (PTPP) has finalised a draft bill for the purpose with the collaboration of lawmakers, said Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khwaja Salman Rafiq while presiding over a meeting to review […]

• September 27, 2017
• Environmental Journalism

IT was a fitting opening for a distressing piece of writing: death on a large scale, but not of the sort that Pakistan has come to associate with the unfortunate land of Balochistan. The report, published in this newspaper on Tuesday, chronicles how the Pinus halepensis species, otherwise known as the Quetta pine tree, is […]

• September 27, 2017
• General News

Karachi – Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Social Welfare Shamim Mumtaz has said that the Sindh government is taking concrete steps for the welfare and protection of children as per international conventions, adding that Sindh is at the forefront in legislating on restraining child marriages, violence and child abuse, using children for drug trafficking […]

• September 26, 2017
• Arts and Entertainment

Shiraz Uppal seems to have done it all. From writing chart topping hits and melodic pop records to crossing the border and working in Bollywood to scoring hits on Coke Studio and contributing to new recent wave of Pakistani films, Uppal remains one of the more multi-faceted artists currently working in the local music scene. […]

• September 26, 2017
• General News

The additional district and sessions judge (South) confirmed the bail pleas of Hassan Mazhar and his wife, Nighat Bibi, charged with torturing and murdering their teenage housemaid. The two are alleged to have killed their 17-year-old maid, Fatima, whose body was found at their bungalow located in the Defence area on September 16. The couple […]

• September 26, 2017
• Information Technology

LAHORE: It’s a proud moment for Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) & BOR to contribute to the economy through an unprecedented success achieved by the flagship project e-Stamping with remarkable results in the shortest span of 11 months by generating the revenue of Rs.41 billion, which is a record after the launch of judicial/non-judicial e-Stamps. […]

• September 26, 2017
• Environmental Journalism

ISLAMABAD: Water scarcity and water-borne diseases are causing serious economic and health crises in the country with accumulated annual national income losses of up to Rs28 billion – roughly 0.6 to 1.44% of GDP. The grim forecast was made by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) in its new report released on Monday. […]

• September 26, 2017
• Governance

MIRPURKHAS: Recently launched Rs3 billion master drainage project for the city has mired in controversy with chairman of Mirpurkhas municipal committee (MCM) and officials concerned of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) accusing the Sindh government of bulldozing the project without bothering to consult them. MCM chairman Farooque Jameel Durrani told Dawn on Monday that […]

• September 25, 2017
• Media and Governance

IN recent days, following a tip from a discreet informant, two bodies were exhumed from a graveyard in Sherpao Colony, Karachi. A post-mortem examination conducted thereafter revealed that the two individuals had been subjected to intense torture in their final hours: they had been beaten, tied to a charpai and electrocuted until they died, and then […]

• September 25, 2017
• Arts and Entertainment

Translation is a thankless job: if you translate well, the credit goes to the original writer and you get a bit of praise, if at all. And if translation does not go well, as often is the case, a debate entails that questions the very utility of translation business and the “value and pleasure of […]