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 […]
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 […]
Article 19 of the Constitution of Pakistan clearly states that “every citizen shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression, and there shall be freedom of the press, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the glory of Islam or the integrity, security or defence of Pakistan or […]
MUZAFFARGARH: The brother of MNA Jamshed Dasti was arrested for allegedly stealing trees of the forest department on Sunday. Mushtaq Dasti, also known as Pehlwan Dasti, and his two accomplices were arrested when forest guard Alamgir called Civil Lines police. Station House Officer Shahid Rizwan claimed he received a call at 3am on Sunday and […]
KARACHI : Banana boys Mustafa Chaudhary and Mirza Bilal made their standup debut on October 20 at Base Rock Café. The man behind the popular satire show Banana News Network Chaudhary, along with Bilal performed in front of a packed house. The venue was perfect. Small, compact and underground, which made the atmosphere more intimate. And […]
KASUR: The Khudian police arrested a man suspected of attempted rape of a minor girl at Amin Town on Sunday. According to the first information report, the six years old girl was in the street near her house when the suspect abducted her and took to a deserted place. The locals rushed to rescue her […]
DISTURBING though it may be, it is hardly surprising that internet access in Pakistan is being selectively filtered — ‘censored’ is perhaps the more accurate word here. A research report released last week regarding random tests that involved 22 internet service providers in the country bore witness to the fact that at least 210 URLs […]
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: As the mystery surrounding the disappearance of social media activists linked with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) deepened on Saturday, no one less than the party chief himself came out in support of the missing men. In a rare statement, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif demanded the interior ministry immediately take notice of the […]
LAHORE-The first day of two-day Heritage Now festival welcomed a large number of attendees from across the country to celebrate the cultural richness of Pakistan, at the Alhamra Arts Council Lahore on Saturday. One of the interesting and much awaited sessions was Artistic License, Identity and Memory: Drawing from Heritage. The session was moderated by […]
The judicial commission investigating into Sindh’s water issues has ordered a report on the quality of the essential commodity being supplied to the schools and colleges across the province. Headed by Justice Mohammad Iqbal Kalhoro, the body directed the education secretary on Saturday to submit a detailed report on the government’s efforts to improve the […]
RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing arrested on Friday two men suspected of posting on social media material and content deemed to be contemptuous of major state organs. The arrests were made during raids on the residences of Anwar Aadil in Railway Carriage Factory Colony and Wajid Rasul Malik in Al-Noor Colony in […]
Pollution beats arch-rivals wars and violence and even hunger and natural disasters, when it comes to causing death, not only in Pakistan but also the world at large. It brings more deaths than any single disease – way more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. World-wide pollution claimed the lives of 9 million people in […]
Lahore – Journalist Zeenat Shahzadi, who went missing in Lahore in August 2015, was found by security forces on Wednesday night, BBC reported on Friday. Before her abduction, the 25-year-old journalist had been working on the disappearance of an Indian citizen, Hamid Ansari, who was reported traceless in Pakistan since November 2012. The head of the missing […]
KARACHI: It was in 2012 that a young National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) graduate Sunil Shankar impressed theatre lovers with his intrepid undertaking of Peter Shaffer’s complex play Equus at a festival held at the academy. It made an impression on the audience on multiple levels — the understanding of the psychosocial undercurrents of […]
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