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Monthly Archives: September 2017

Benazir Shaheed Park needs care, not to be turned into a free Wi-Fi zone

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KARACHI: The sun is setting behind the silhouettes of the tall cranes in the port as I look to the horizon standing in Benazir Shaheed Park. The water the park has circumscribed glistens as if saying good night to a darling it has a lasting bond with. More than a score or so young men […]


Pakistan’s requests to remove Twitter accounts doubled in six months: report

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KARACHI: The number of requests made by Pakistani authorities to Twitter for removal of accounts and information has doubled since last year, according to a bi-annual transparency report of the social networking website. Between January and June 30, the government asked Twitter to remove 24 accounts, and over 80 accounts were reported, with zero compliance. […]


Sea of sewage

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IN recent weeks, the residents of Karachi have been noticing that the waters of the Indian Ocean have been especially filthy. At Seaview, the beach most easily accessible to citizens, the waters have taken on a dark, oily tinge, a viscosity that is not that of normal seawater even by the standards of this metropolis […]


Pakistani media’s misplaced priorities

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The Pakistani media follows a certain template. Pick any newspaper in the morning or tune in to any news channel in the evening, stories related to politics always make it to the front pages and primetime news bulletins. Read articles in any newspaper or watch any talk show on TV, only one issue dominates — politics. It […]


Talib Hussain Dard – a unique voice of Punjab

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The stage is set in a village near Jhang for a wedding function, with people awaiting their beloved singer Ustad Talib Hussain Dard who would sing for them traditional dhoray,mahiyeh and gawan. While villagers anticipate a great night ahead, Dard reaches the stage and starts with adhora, a four-liner genre of local poetry, and a mahiyah, a couplet, in his […]


Fowzia demands justice for her sister

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KARACHI – Aafia Movement leader Dr Fowzia Siddiqui has asked the governments of USA and Pakistan to do justice to Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who completed her seventh year in US prison on Saturday. She was addressing a protest demonstration held in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on the eve of completion of seven […]


Where our media stands

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There are three traditional pillars of any state: legislature, executive and judiciary. They enact laws, apply them and also interpret the same. The media is considered as the ‘fourth pillar’ of any state and plays an exceptionally important role in disseminating, informing, educating and reforming society in a larger perspective. Objectivity, truthfulness, fairness and impartiality […]


KP govt braces for protests as dengue kills two more

PESHAWAR – The dengue fever on Saturday took two more lives in the provincial metropolis, taking the death toll to 33 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa so far. Turab, son of Hassan, resident of Tehkal Bala, had been brought to Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) for treatment on Friday after being bitten by dengue mosquito. However, Turab, 50, breathed […]


TonyMoly brings Korean beauty to Pakistan

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Lahore: Korean Beauty has become somewhat of a mammoth entity with tons of players. While the market is dominated by many individual products, TonyMoly still manages to stand out under this umbrella. Overtime K Beauty has proved itself to be more than just a passing fad and its real staying power is evident in the […]


Three major hospitals shorten duty durations

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LAHORE: A much-awaited demand of thousands of young doctors has been fulfilled as three major hospitals of the provincial capital reduced duty hours from 36 hours to just eight. It was the year’s long pending issue and a main cause for agitation and protests of doctors at public sector hospitals. CEO Mayo Hospital Dr Asad Aslam, […]


SHC seeks lists of civil servants working in the media

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HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered on Friday the provincial government to submit lists of government servants working as journalists in all administrative divisions of Sindh. The bench, comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Fahim Ahmed Siddiqi, gave a final warning to the provincial additional advocate-general after the Hyderabad commissioner submitted the list for nine districts […]


Media capture: not inevitable

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Media capture is the result not just of technological and market forces, but of political choices made by political and business leaders. It is a complex problem, but not inevitable. Exacerbated by the economic weakness of the traditional news business and the growing concentration of ownership of media industries, media capture has become one of the […]


‘She was disowned for marrying of her choice’

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“This seems to be one of those so-called honour killings. The victim, Hajra, had been disowned by her family over a year ago for marrying a man of her choice, Tahir. Though we do not have evidence yet, it is highly probable that Tahir too has been murdered somewhere in Karachi.” These details were shared […]


One rogue DG caused ‘press gagging’ debacle: Marriyum Aurangzeb

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ISLAMABAD: A director general of the information ministry was solely responsible for whatever transpired with the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) and the consequent drafting of a law curbing press freedom happened without the knowledge of the secretary or the minister. This detail, according to Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Marriyum Aurangzeb, […]