ISLAMABAD: Climate change negotiations started in Bonn with the promise to make progress on the Paris Agreement. Germany announced 100 million euros to combat climate change before the start of the conference. This announcement conveyed the message of seriousness of Germany in negotiations. Fiji, President of the conference, insisted on meaningful engagement and progress on […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has expressed its grave concern on the sudden closure of TV channels and their transmissions on the arbitrary order of Pemra and demanded immediate restoration of TV channels. Sarmad Ali, President and Umer Mujib Shami, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, in a joint statement, have […]
ISLAMABAD: People remained in the dark on Saturday after the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) ordered private TV channels to go off-air during an operation launched by local police and Rangers against participants of a sit-in staged by the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah demanding the resignation of the federal law minister. While hundreds of […]
How flowers can brighten up sombre moments, how they add to the lives of the downcast, and how very aesthetic they are was the subject of a lecture by Australian floral designer Mark Pampling at a hotel on Friday evening. The lecture was sponsored by the Pakistan chapter of the World Flower Council. Pampling, in […]
LAHORE: Renowned Lollywood actor Meera revealed that she will soon be among the top heroines of Pakistan. She said that she’s working on bigger projects now and a Karachi-based film director has cast her in a film which will serve as a breakthrough for her career. She also added that all the female actors now are […]
LAHORE-A documentary film on 30 years career of singer turned religious scholar Junaid Jamshed will be released on December 1. Pakistani American Imran Ahmad Khan, producer and director of the film ‘Ansoo’, told APP here on Thursday that his film will show the secret aspects of Junaid Jamshed’s life as a kind person. He said that last conversation of Junaid Jamshed before the […]
KARACHI: The British Council in Pakistan, Southbank Centre and TAF Foundation (TAFF), along with six local curating partners, are organising the second Women of the World (WOW) festival in Karachi. The event will start from December 2 and will run till December 3 at the Alliance Francaise. During the #WOWKhi 2017 programme review, young girls from […]
KARACHI: Award-winning floral designer from Australia Mark Pampling on Friday participated in a floral demonstration titled ‘Structured Harmony’ where different decorative techniques were discussed and exhibited in the midst of floral enthusiasts. Having been declared Australia’s floristry champion on several occasions, Pampling used a variety of flowers such as orchids, carnations and chrysanthemums, with foliage […]
KARACHI: The inter-relatable aspects of various genres of art have now been well established. But very rarely, especially in Pakistan, does one see a painter doing an exhibition paying tribute to Urdu poetry and exploring his subject by looking through two distinct creative lenses. Artist Masood A. Khan has done this. His latest body of […]
KOHAT: A journalist was shot and injured in an attack under mysterious circumstances near his house in Garhi Atta Khan area of Kohat city on Friday. Aleem Haider Zaidi, a correspondent of a private TV channel, parked his motorcycle outside his house and fell down as he received a gunshot, according to a statement he […]
KHYBER AGENCY – Bomb disposal squad on Friday disposed of a remote-control improvised explosive device, which was allegedly fixed by militants to target the vehicle of local media person. Sharing the incident details, Tehsildar Tehseenullah said that local journalist Khalil Jibran, along with his four other colleagues, were on the way to Charwazgai checkpoint for the coverage of a […]
PESHAWAR: A court has ordered the Peshawar SSP (Investigation) to conduct an inquiry against an Islamabad-based journalist on an application filed by a police officer accusing the journalist of committing defamation by filing a baseless news story against him. The court of the additional district and sessions judge Jehangir Khan, ordered the SSP to conduct […]
Lahore-Spirit of Math, a Canadian-based elite school system celebrated UniversalChildren’s Day with a Pakistani living legend Bushra Ansari at Kids Campus Gulberg, Lahore. The basic aim of this event was to acknowledge the efforts and hard work of high achievers and to motivate them to excel in life. The Universal Children’s Day intended to highlight the differentiation between high-performing and gifted […]
KARACHI – Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar on Tuesday praised the efforts of districtcentral administration and Bahria Town management for lifting tonnes of garbage from different areas of the district and thus getting rid of the backlog which had been causing immense trouble to people. He was speaking at a ceremony held at the office of district central administration on the completion of cleanliness drive in the district . The […]
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