LAHORE: Cases of deafness are on the rise due to noise trauma caused by the excessive use of mobile phone and other devices by the youth and the children, said Services Hospital’s ENT Department Head Dr Javaid Iqbal. Talking to the APP on Sunday, he said excessive use of mobile phones, computers, and hand-free accessories to listen to […]
LAHORE: A delegation of leading journalists, including Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist (PFUJ) President, Rana Azeem; Secretary General GM Jamali, office bearers of PUJ and Apnec called on Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry here on Sunday and presented a memorandum with regard to journalists’ issues. PFUJ Secretary General G M Jamali presented the memorandum […]
Launching a report on shrinking spaces for the civil society, prominent rights activists on Sunday demanded from the government to ensure the basic freedoms as guaranged in the Constitution of Pakistan and committed under the international commitments. Academic Dr Riaz Shaikh, rights activists advocate Ali Palh and Zulfiqar Shah and researcher Zeenia Shaukat shared at […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Macky Sall, President of Senegal has expressed concern over the physical assault of a reporter by a security officer in Dakar, Senegal. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter, has condemned the attack on Mamadou Sakine and has urged authorities to thoroughly investigate this case […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey has expressed concern over the arrest of Austrian journalist Max Zirngast by Turkish authorities. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali has condemned the arrest and has called on Turkish authorities to immediately release Zirngast. According to IPS Communication Foundation – Bianet, […]
In a special report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) describes how journalists in this country are pulled back by an undertow of violence and pressures from multiple sources. Since 2000, as many as 57 media persons have been killed in retaliation for their work. Although following the counter-terrorism operations, overall violence and murder of […]
LAHORE – Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Saturday said the government would soon introduce a new digital policy for equipping the media with modern technology and facilities. Talking to a delegation of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) during his visit to PTV Centre Lahore, he […]
KARACHI: Former Dawn staffer Aamir Ahmed Mallick passed away on Saturday evening. He was 55. His son Mahadi Mallick told Dawn that he collapsed in the evening and was taken to a hospital in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, where doctors declared him dead. He said his father was suffering from diabetes and heart ailment and it appeared that […]
ISLAMABAD: Universal Service Fund (USF) and Facebook have launched #SheMeansBusiness in Pakistan aimed at equipping women entrepreneurs with knowledge, connections, skills and technology required to build and grow their businesses online. As a part of the # She Means Business programme, training will be provided to trainers of USF ICT for girls programme in the […]
LAHORE-As Nandita Das’ biopic of author Saadat Hasan Manto gears up for a release, the iconic writer daughters – Nuzhat and Nusrat – will be travelling from Pakistan to attend the premiere of the film in India. Speaking to an Indian Daily, Nandita Das said, “We are keeping our fingers crossed that the family of this great literary […]
LARKANA: Two French scholars, who are conducting research on Sufism, music and culture of Pakistan, have said that Pakistani mystical singing and dancing are powerful tools to spread universal message of love, peace and tranquility in the world. Dr Pierre-Alain Boud, director of Arts Nomades, a non-profit research and promotion project, and Dr Alix Philippon, […]
Earlier this week the finalists for the 13th Annual NBCUniversal Short Film Festival were announced and the good news is that Pakistani short film, Rani, featuring transgender model and activist Kami Sid, has made the cut. Rani was previously selected from more than 3,500 films as one of the fifteen semi-finalists and is now one […]
MULTAN: The 16th century AD architectural masterpiece, Sawi Mosque at Kotla Tolay Khan in Multan, stands restored since April 2017. However, hard struggle by officials could restore the Persian poetry on its tiles’ panels only partially. Historian Ahmad Nabi Khan said: “The first historic mosque which still exists, though much renovated, is the Sawi Mosque, built […]
KARACHI – On the call of government to make Pakistan green and to combat numerous environmental problems, Tariq Jamali, President National Bank of Pakistan, planted sapling at the University of Karachi, under its CSR program “Green Initiative.” The Bank will plant trees at various parts of the city and across Pakistan. NBP will plant over 1,000 […]
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