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Daily Archives: October 20, 2017

Sharmeen’s first immersive exhibition at ‘Heritage Now’

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LAHORE – Two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is set to premiere her first immersive exhibition HOME1947 for the first time in Pakistan at the Heritage Now festival in Lahore. This unique and deeply beautiful exhibition collects stories from people who left their homes and crossed borders during the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent. HOME1947will […]


Missing rights activist Punhal Sario returns home

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HYDERABAD: Human rights activist and campaigner for missing persons Punhal Sario, who was himself allegedly subjected to enforced disappearance, returned to his home in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Sario was allegedly whisked away by the police and other law enforcement agencies on August 3 from the road outside Sindh Museum. His family filed a petition in the […]


‘Fake’ list of lawmakers: Pemra asked to take decision about complaint against TV channel

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ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Standing Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges disposed of the issue relating to a list of 37 lawmakers having links with banned organization, allegedly issued by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), and said that Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) should decide about the complaint against the TV channel that aired the […]


Pemra puts TV channel on notice

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ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday issued a show cause notice to Bol News for defying the decision of the authority. The Pemra had directed the channel to air apology to viewers for their programme “Aisay Nahi Challay Ga” for casting aspersions against a serving officer of the armed forces but […]