Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Win Myint, President of the Republic of Myanmar has expressed concern over the sentencing of two Reuter’s reporters to seven years imprisonment, for illegal possession of official documents and breach of Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act, during their reporting of a massacre of the Rohingya. PPF Secretary General […]
PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority) has issued a blanket statement advising all entertainment channels to produce drama content responsibly.The statement, which was released Monday night says, “that the quality of Pakistani dramas is deteriorating everyday.” PEMRA’s reason is that the themes in the dramas are “quite bold” and “not reflective of majority of the […]
Federal Information Technology (IT) Minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Sunday placed a ban on suicidal video games like the Blue Whale and Momo challenge throughout the country. Siddiqui, during a meeting with the joint delegation of IT and software developers in Karachi, said, “These games don’t have any place in Pakistan as they are […]
It fills practitioners and lovers of music with great hope to know that the younger generation, some of them cusp millennials, are taking a keen interest in classical and semi-classical music. This was evident, one more time, on Saturday evening at an event titled ‘Nautarang’ organised by the All Pakistan Music Conference (APMC) at the […]
Episode four – titled ‘Gulistan’ – opened with season nine’s star duo Asim Azhar and Momina Mustehsan crooning Mahi Aaja. While they previously delivered a decent, hummable tune with Tera Woh Pyar, this latest track is a slight notch down from that. Mahi Aaja flows well as the melody and rhythm gel together and the […]
Google is paying tribute to legendary playwright Fatima Surayya Bajia on her 88th birth anniversary through its doodle feature. Bajia was born on September 1, 1930 in Hyderabad Deccan. After the partition, she migrated to Pakistan with her family. She stepped into showbiz with PTV in 1960. Apart from TV, she wrote multiple scripts for […]
ISLAMABAD: The Mayor of Islamabad Sheikh Anser Aziz has suspended Environment Wing Assistant Director Muhammad Ashfaq Noori and Forester Abdul Jalil and Forest Guard Nazim Shah for substandard progress in the Islamabad Municipal Corporation (IMC) Environment Wing with regards to the disposing off of wild grass, plants and trees in the federal capital. Furthermore, he […]
PESHAWAR: The tree plantation campaign was launched across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday as part of 10 billion tree drive announced by the federal government. Majority of the public sector educational institutions in the provincial capital remained opened on Sunday and the students and teachers took part in the tree plantation campaign. Commissioner Shahab Ali Shah […]
KARACHI: The art of dramatised reading on stage has caught the fancy of a big number of theatregoers. While it is not as arduous a task as, let’s say, putting up a full-length play, it still requires a great deal of preparation to get the right tone and expression of the text being read. Olomopolo’s […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana has expressed concern over the attack on Jerry Azanduna, a senior reporter with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Bawku, in the Upper East region of Ghana. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter, condemned this attack on […]
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen M Mazari on Friday urged the international community to come forward and raise voice against the brutalities and violations of human rights in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK). “The people of Indian occupied Kashmir have been sacrificing their lives for the attainment of the Plebiscite which has been […]
National University of Science and technology held a tree plantation activity at its main campus Sector H-12, as part of Green Pakistan Programme. Plantation of around 1,000 trees will go a long way in making NUST environment friendly and carbon neutral university, said a press release. NUST has planted olive, cassia fistula (amaltaas) guava and […]
SUKKUR: Sincere and concerted efforts are needed to tackle malnutrition in vulnerable areas, including Thar. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Thardeep Rural Development Program (TRDP), Dr Allahnawaz Samoo, said the malnutrition in the recent years has claimed lives of thousands of children of Tharparkar. Dr Allahnawaz Samoo said it is high time to invite the […]
KARACHI: Water resources are under immense pressure from climate change and the soaring demand generated by the domestic, agriculture and industrial sectors. There is an urgent need for communities, companies and governments to come up with innovative solutions to secure water that can help maintain the balance between people and nature. This was stated by […]
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