• December 18, 2017
• Arts and Entertainment

LAHORE : Lahore’s Alhamra Arts Council (AAC) has decided to produce its own plays for the revival of constructive theatre. The council has also sent suggestions to the Punjab government. The purpose of this development is to boost the confidence of families towards the concept of theatre and cultural activities. The administration unit suggests lower […]

• December 18, 2017
• General News

Terming enforced disappearances the most futile tactic to deal with political differences, Asad Iqbal Butt, vice chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s Sindh chapter, warned the perpetrators to put an end to the practice forthwith. He was addressing a protest rally on Sunday that was held to demand immediate release of the missing […]

• December 18, 2017
• Access to Information

KARACHI: Police and education were the top departments against whom most public complaints were registered and taken up for action by the Sindh Ombudsman’s office last year, shows the 2016 annual report recently released by the provincial ombudsman. The report says that a total of 7,424 complaints were lodged with the ombudsman’s office in 2016, […]

• December 18, 2017
• Front Page, General News, Obituaries

Mr Mohammed Afzal Khan, one of the senior most journalists still surviving from amongst the old lot, the lot on whom the Pakistani media can be genuinely proud of, passed away in Fairfax, Virginia, on Dec 14, after a long battle with serious ailments. Mr Khan was in his 80s and was a contemporary of […]

• December 18, 2017
• Front Page

“The truth does not change when a government does. Like freedom, truth is open to misuse, but, again like freedom, it can’t be withheld on that count,” wrote the late Razia Bhatti in one of her searing editorials. These were not merely fine words: Ms Bhatti, editor of the Herald and later of Newsline – […]