ISLAMABAD: Back in January, when a human rights activist Gul Bukhari tweeted pictures of a dead body, which seemed to have torture marks on it, to challenge the local police’s narrative that the death was natural, Twitter changed her settings, reported Voice of America. “Effectively my voice had been muted,” she said. She found out […]
BAHAWALPUR: The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) organised a three-day safety and security training session for the journalists that aims to assist them in the medical emergencies, both minor and major, until the ambulances arrive. Syed Tahir Mahmood briefed journalists about first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CRP). First Aid training helps prepare individuals to deliver initial […]
ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has established two branches of Human Rights Cells in the first phase at Branch Registries of this Court in Karachi and Lahore. He has also established a Minority Wing at Human Rights Directorate in Islamabad. According to a press statement, the purpose of establishing Human Rights […]
ISLAMABAD: After hectic efforts by Islamabad to bring them on negotiation table, Facebook team is visiting Pakistan for discussing venues of cooperation on filtering and blocking content on one of the largest social media networking site being used in the country, The News has learnt. “The Facebook team is currently visiting Pakistan in the aftermath […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Commission for Enforced Disappearances has stated some political neophytes and adventurous politicians were trying to use the humanitarian crisis of missing persons to their advantage and were politicising the issue by misinforming the innocent Pakhtuns. It clarified statistics regarding handing over of 4,000 Pakistanis to foreign countries were baseless. The commission said […]
ISLAMABAD: A court has allowed the Special Communications Organisation (SCO) to operate 3G and 4G mobile services on a trial basis in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and stayed the telecom regulatory body’s decision to allow other private operators to launch the service in the mountainous region. A two-judge bench of the Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court (GBCC) comprising Justice […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) on Wednesday signed an agreement with VMware Inc (VMW), an inventor in enterprise software, to develop Pakistan’s first government cloud. A cloud contains a large number of distributed computing resources connected via the internet. Cloud services are hosted in a data centre that can be accessed by companies or […]
LAHORE-Popular theatre personality and founder of Ajoka Theatre Madeeha Gauhar passed away on Wednesday early morning. She was 61. Her funeral will be held today at her residence 24 Sarwar Rd Lahore Cantt at 5pm. She is survived by her daughter Sawaira Nadeem, two sons, Nirvaan and Sarang and her husband playwright Shahid Nadeem. Madeeha […]
ISLAMABAD – The management of state-owned Pakistan Television is all set to withdraw seniority of its 34 producers of news and current affairs department apparently to benefit those employees who changed their cadres in the past. The move comes despite a stay order given by the Islamabad High Court on April 13, 2018 stating: “In […]
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair on Wednesday regretted the ban on media coverage of the ongoing intermediate exams imposed by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE). The governor noted, “It has been seen by everyone that unfair means were used in the exams.” To prevent leaks of examination papers, this year the Intermediate […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Wednesday issued show cause notices and an advice to three news channels. A show cause notice has been issued to a channel for maligning the credibility and passing derogatory remarks against the judiciary in its programme “Do Rai” aired on 21-04-2018, says a Pemra statement. Similarly, another […]
ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, a member of the Supreme Court bench hearing the 20-day Faizabad Interchange dharna case, on Wednesday questioned why the people of Pakistan were destined to live in constant fear while those who ransacked everything, flouted the Constitution, restricted the right to movement and even gouged the eyes of police were […]
KARACHI: A new book on the life of Qandeel Baloch titled ‘The Sensational Life & Death of Qandeel Baloch’ by journalist Sanam Maher will hit the shelves on May 10. One of the most anticipated works of the year, the book covers the life of social media model Fauzia Azeem aka Qandeel Baloch, who was […]
ISLAMABAD: The Additional Attorney General Tuesday submitted in the Supreme Court (SC) the audit report on the expenses, incurred by Pakistan Television during Ataul Haq Qasmi’s tenure as the chairman/ MD PTV. The apex court granted two weeks time to Qasmi, for submission of objections on the audit report. A three-member SC bench, headed by […]
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