ISLAMABAD: A group of 26 probationary officers of 44 CTP, undergoing Specialize Training Program (STP) at Foreign Services Training Academy visited Board of Investment (BoI), Islamabad and briefed on the opportunities and challenges of CPEC by Executive Director General (EDG) BoI Fareena Mazhar and DG BoI Rifat Pervez. Shah Jahan Shah, Additional Secretary, while responding […]
KARACHI: With more than a quarter of the current year remaining, chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease, has already affected more than 4,000 people — more than tenfold of the number reported last year — in the province, officials said on Friday. Officials in the Sindh health department reckoned Malir as the most affected district of […]
A Christian man in Lahore has been sentenced to death for blasphemy after he sent a Muslim friend a poem on WhatsApp that insulted Islam, a lawyer said Friday. The accused was charged in July last year after his friend, Yasir Bashir, complained to police that he received a poem on the messaging app that […]
THE framing of laws and the ambit of their application is always a delicate balancing act. After the media managed to see off the threat posed by a draft law targeting the press, another, albeit somewhat less worrisome, challenge has come up. It appears that the draft Sindh Press, Newspapers, News Agencies and Books Act, […]
IT may have been an abortive attempt, given that it had to be abandoned due to the outrage expressed in the media, but that someone in the corridors of power was willing to make a crude, sinister attempt to muzzle the press in the country is reason enough to trigger alarm bells. Once the draft […]
The year 2017 did not have the most auspicious start when it comes to Pakistani cinema but the future certainly looks bright. On one end, there are commercial films like Punjab Nahi Jaungi and Na Maloom Afraad 2 that are running successfully in cinemas even after two weeks of release, picking up mostly good reviews. […]
KARACHI: A giant blue whale has recently been spotted along with its baby off Churna Island, Balochistan, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) reported on Thursday. This was the first live sighting of the blue whale, stated the organisation, which had earlier reported sighting of a sperm whale pair off Jiwani. The blue whale […]
SHIKARPUR- New office-bearers of Human Rights Foundation were elected in a meeting held here at its office on Thursday. The meeting was presided over by Zulfikar Ali Soomro, the coordinator of HRFP of Shikarpur. Advocate Shamsuddin Shaikh was elected as President, Dr Altaf Memon as Senior Vice President, Altaf Jhullan as Vice President, Barkat Ali […]
QUETTA: Rising number of deaths in mining accidents in Balochistan highlights the low level of safety in the province’s coal mines, many of which are unregistered and out of bounds to officials of the Inspectorate of Mines. In the last one week, three coal mine accidents were reported in Balochistan in which eight labourers lost their lives. […]
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday failed to secure the passage of the long-awaited Right of Access to Information Bill 2017 from the National Assembly for a second consecutive day due to a lack of quorum. The bill, which was passed unanimously by the Senate on Aug 23, was taken up clause-wise on Wednesday, but could […]
KARACHI: The National Museum of Pakistan saw much activity on Thursday with the unveiling of a project spearheaded by IAmKarachi to make art more accessible. Titled Munaqqash (painted or coloured), the project is inspired by the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, an outdoor art installation that has been working to improve and transform lives from 1986. […]
KARACHI: With the concurrent list abolished in the wake of the adoption of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, the Sindh government has drafted a law to regulate registration of newspapers, news agencies, printing presses and books that on paper appears to be tougher than the existing laws. “By regulating printing presses in the province, […]
A 35-year-old man hailing from Quetta died of the Congo Crimean Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) at a private hospital in Karachi on Wednesday, while another Congo fever patient – a teenager from Quetta – was admitted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre’s intensive care unit in critical condition on Thursday, officials of the Sindh Health Department […]
ISLAMABAD: Transparency of trial of high profile references against deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and others will be severely marred if Islamabad’s accountability court barred the media from covering it as per its professional calls to inform the public at large about it. Judge Mohammad Bashir did not permit reporters to be present in the […]
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