KARACHI: After the emergence of a number of harrowing tales of deaths and injuries due to lack of safety measures at workplaces in Sindh over the past few years, the Sindh government finally passed on Friday the Sindh Occupational Safety and Health Bill, 2017 to ensure a decent working environment and health and safety of […]
Pakistan Television (PTV) on Friday sacked its suspended director of current affairs, Agha Masood Shorish, following allegations of sexual harassment and misuse of authority by multiple staffers at the state-run broadcaster. A total of five inquiries had been initiated against Shorish, including three for sexual harassment. PTV’s 14 producers had also filed a complaint against […]
KARACHI – Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar said on Thursday that the job quota for the disabled would be strictly implemented in KMC and only those who deserved to be appointed on such posts would be inducted. “Initially, applications from disabled contractual employees of KMC have been invited to fill the available vacant posts from BPS-1 […]
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Thursday rejected the government’s bill on the safety of journalists and set up a three-member subcommittee to draft another bill in consultation with stakeholders which will be tabled as a private member’s bill in case the government does not own it. The decision was taken during a meeting of the […]
With some of the most iconic music videos in the history of Pakistani pop to their credit and five equally memorable studio albums, Strings (featuring Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia) remain one of the country’s most cherished music groups. Having spent the last four years producing/directing Coke Studio, the band announced their departure from the […]
The Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) will host an open house on Friday (today) to introduce its newly launched master’s programme in journalism. “The open house is an opportunity for us to walk visitors through our curriculum and facilities,” said a CEJ official, adding that people could […]
Freedom in Pakistan, especially if considering the internet and its multiplying roles in daily life, is something of an illusion. Governments worldwide fear the ‘net’ and the anarchic freedoms it represents, freedoms of speech and expression that governments find inconvenient and seek to constrain, often with considerable success as the citizens of China would find […]
Karachi November 15, 2017: The Pakistan Press Foundation has awarded 19 journalists from across Pakistan fellowships to pursue investigative stories on a range of social, political and economic issues. The fellows were selected from a pool of over 150 applicants in a rigorous selection process conducted by a panel of 17 reporters and editors who […]
PESHAWAR: Senior journalist Habibur Rahman breathed his last after prolonged illness here on Monday. He was 77. The funeral prayer will be offered at the University of Peshawar Hockey Ground today (Tuesday) at 9.30 am. His body will be shifted to Rawalpindi where his funeral prayer will be offered at Liaqat Bagh at 3pm. He […]
URDU pronunciation of some Pakistani TV channels is giving nightmares to many, though the owners and anchors of those channels may not even be aware how mercilessly they have been slaughtering our national language. Aside from intermingling English words and phrases with their Urdu conversation, these innocent anchors mispronounce many Urdu words, sometime rendering the […]
Lahore, the famed city of gardens, has been choking under a veil of hazardous haze for the past few days and at its source lies an unsustainable growth model based on an endless expansion of roads and traffic, rising concrete jungles, open burning of waste and crop residues, unregulated industrialisation, merciless slashing of trees and […]
The city’s antique but historic Khaliqdina Hall was host to a highly constructive programme for children on Monday morning with the noted sitar maestro, Ustad Ashraf Sharif Khan, imparting a lesson to the children in classical sub-continental music and entertaining them to various classical tunes which were very well received by the children. There were […]
Mazhar Ali Khan recounts events of that fateful day in April 1959 when Pakistan’s press suffered its most grievous blow. WHEN the people of our land attain full freedom and genuine democracy, and Pakistan’s history is written by honest scholars searching for the truth, and not as a panegyric on, or apologia for, the ruler […]
Karachi-The first day of the three-day Made in Pakistan Fashion Showcase in partnership with TDAP, featuring high-street labels, textile brands and luxury pret began the other day at Pearl Continental Hotel highlighting some reputed names rubbing shoulders with their new collections making heads turn off the runway. Seven of 23 designers put forward their exquisite […]
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