HYDERABAD: Rampant cheating was reported from most examination centres of the Hyderabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) on Tuesday, when the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) part-I and II exams got under way in the province. An undeclared restriction was imposed on media personnel’s entry into the centres though the reporters who accompanied […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday sought a report from Ministry of Defence pertaining to whereabouts of a missing rights activist Raza Mahmood Khan. As hearing started, a Deputy Attorney General Javed Kasuri filed a report on behalf of Ministry of Interior which disclosed that the alleged missing activist was not in custody of […]
Tariq Abul Hasan and Hamidur Rehman were elected as president and general secretary of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ-Dastoor), respectively, in the election for the year 2018-19 held at the Karachi Press Club. Khalil Ahmed Nasir and Asif Jiaja were elected as vice-presidents while Munir Aqeel Ansari and Jamal Khurshid were elected joint secretaries. […]
ISLAMABAD: March of this year has emerged as the third warmest on record the world over, especially in Pakistan where a heatwave swept across Sindh and temperatures in various towns and cities touched 45°C. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department data, at least 34 meteorological stations registered temperatures 10°C above the monthly average last month. […]
National Assembly Standing Committee on Government Assurance was told that as many as six fake Facebook accounts of President Mamnoon Hussain are operational. The committee met with Shahzadi Umerzadi Tiwana in the chair here at Parliament Lodges on Monday. The committee discussed fake Facebook accounts of the President of Pakistan and a complaint about posting […]
DUBAI: Careem, a ride-hailing app and rival of Uber in the Middle East, said on Monday it was the victim of a cyber attack that compromised the data of its clients and employees. The company said in a message to customers that the attack was detected on January 14, at a time when the app […]
KARACHI: Presenting its arguments regarding the Axact Company’s channel’s licence before the Sindh High Court Justice Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) counsel said Shoaib Shaikh had no source of income and without receiving advertisements, his channel is distributing motorcycles, land cruisers and even aircrafts. The Pemra’s counsel further continued its […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) signed a cooperation memorandum with the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) on April 18, 2018 at Beijing for developing bilateral media ties between Pakistan and China under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) framework. Kazi Asad Abid, Senior Vice President of APNS, and Ms. Wang Dongmei, Executive Secretary of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed the administration of Geo TV on Monday to ensure that salaries not paid to employees for the past three months were disbursed at the earliest. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, the editor-in-chief of Geo-Jang Group, appeared before a three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar. The issue of non-payment of salaries […]
Democracy and freedom of media are indispensible to each other. Their co-relationship is cherished for making qualitative difference in the political economy. For, they supplement the cause of each other to create enabling conditions for the nation to tread on the trajectory of stability, peace, prosperity and above all standing on the platform with respectable […]
ISLAMABAD: Failing to find relief from her institution, a woman working at a state-run television channel has approached the Supreme Court of Pakistan to find justice for herself after claiming to be harassed by a male colleague. An application was submitted by a female human resource coordinator of the channel in the HR cell of […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government secretly inducted the social media activists of Maryam Nawaz, daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), working under the Ministry of Information Broadcasting, National History, and Literary Heritage. Sources said that the high officials of the ministry have transferred the employs of Strategic Media […]
Facebook, the social networking website has the capability to influence the results of forthcoming general elections in Pakistan through political advertisements and fake accounts, but it cannot manipulate or hack the results. This was the consensus among telecom experts and political parties’ representatives while talking to Business Recorder here on Saturday. Co-founder and Chief Executive […]
ISLAMABAD: The country is now devoid of democracy and Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Saqib Nisar is perpetrating the worst kind of dictatorship, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif asserted on Monday. The country, he said, was facing the worst form of dictatorship. According to him, he was personally facing the same situation confronted by […]
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