• October 24, 2017
• General News

MUZAFFARABAD: Hun­dreds of women and children marched on a thoroughfare here on Monday to condemn the fresh wave of brutal acts in India-held Kashmir, particularly the chopping of women’s braids. The protesters, drawn from different camps of post-1990 migrants, gathered outside the press club at about 10.30am, with banners and placards inscribed with anti-India and pro-freedom […]

• October 24, 2017
• Arts and Entertainment

The past several days, social media has been swept over by hundreds and thousands of people posting #MeToo. After Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s case gained steam and he was publicly called out by many women for years of sexual harassment, actress Alyssa Milano urged people to post #MeToo in order to show the magnitude of the problem, […]

• October 24, 2017
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI – A delegation of United Nations Association of Pakistan (UNAP) called on Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar in his office on Monday to discuss with him climate change and air pollution in Karachi . Advisor to Mayor Karachi Farhat Khan, senior director municipal services Masood Alam, director technical S M Shukaib and others were also present on this occasion. The president of UNAP Moohi during […]

• October 24, 2017
• Social Media

REGULATING cyberspace is a challenging task for every nation. In Pakistan, the enactment of the Prevention of Electronics Crime Act (Peca), 2016, despite many reservations, was a step in the right direction due to the emerging cyber threats and the need to provide protection to citizens vulnerable to the misuse of technology. It has been […]

• October 24, 2017
• Front Page, Media and Society, Media Safety

ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) has expressed strong reaction to a campaign on the social media to malign a senior journalist and anchorperson Syed Talat Hussain, says a press release on Monday. An important meeting of elected members of the RIUJ was held to condemn this drive. The meeting was presided over by RIUJ […]

• October 24, 2017
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Media and Governance

QUETTA: The government would make no compromise with elements challenging the writ of the state and continue to hunt them down, the Balochistan chief minister said on Monday. He was speaking to a delegation of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), headed by its president Zia Shahid. Sanaullah Zehri said the government was fighting […]