• April 6, 2019
• Arts and Entertainment

KARACHI: Bushra Ansari has released a peaceful rap anthem amidst burgeoning tensions between Pakistan and India. The hip-hop song titled Hamsaaye Maa Jaye is a collaborative family effort with sister, Asma Abbas singing the duet, penned by the third sister sister, Neelum Ahmed Bashir. The Punjabi rap song is arranged like a tappa with references to vernacular poetry and allegories. Ansari drops […]

• April 6, 2019
• Arts and Entertainment

ISLAMABAD: Families thronged to the All About Lifestyles Exhibition at the Jinnah Convention Centre on Saturday, with the pleasant weather and end-of-year cheer turning the exhibition and its associated activities into a wonderful outing for young and old alike. The typical stalls of handicrafts and clothing, food products and electronics and appliances were set in […]

• April 6, 2019
• General News

KARACHI: “He is missing both his eyes, his skull is open with the brain gone, his kidneys, too, have been taken out but yes, he is our father. We can still say this much about this shell of a corpse handed over to us,” cried Sakina, the eldest daughter of Noor-ul-Amin, the octogenarian Pakistani fisherman […]

• April 5, 2019
• Broadcasting, Freedom of Expression, Front Page, Television

The transmission of Pakistani TV channel, Channel 24 and its sister channels, including City 42, City 41 Faisalabad and Rohi City News has been taken off air in many parts of Pakistan. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) ordered the cable operators to take channel off air after the journalist Najam Sethi in his […]

• April 5, 2019
• Arts and Entertainment

It was just last month when Information Minister, Fawad Chaudhry, announced that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are working towards increasing cultural exchange between the two countries and that Pakistani TV dramas will soon be exported to Saudi Arabia. According to recent reports, Pakistan Television has picked two classic drama serials, Dhoop Kinare and Tanhaiyaan – […]

• April 5, 2019
• Arts and Entertainment

The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) will hold 16th edition of its flagship International ‘My-Karachi, Oasis of Harmony Exhibition 2019’ from April 5 to 7, 2019 at Karachi Expo Centre. The purpose of holding the three-day exhibition is to introduce and popularise ‘Made in Pakistan’ brand, dispel negative propaganda against Pakistan and show […]

• April 5, 2019
• General News

KARACHI: Over two years after the first attempt to criminalise forced conversions in Sindh, a revised draft of the law has been finalised and is expected to be tabled in the Sindh Assembly secretariat soon. The latest version of the ‘Protection of Minorities Act, 2019’ will be submitted by the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) MPA Nand […]

• April 5, 2019
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI: The Karachi Zoo is set to receive its new guests – rhinoceros, hippopotamus and zebras – and the work has already been initiated on enclosures for the new guests. The approval for the enclosures has already been given by the provincial government and Metropolitan Commissioner Dr Syed Saifur Rehman has been asked to complete the […]

• April 5, 2019
• Environmental Journalism

Pakistan’s lack of consideration for the welfare of wildlife, including endangered species, was spotlighted this week by the discovery that a whale measuring some 34 feet had been quietly buried by municipal workers on Tuesday afternoon after having washed ashore on the Gwadar coast. Though Pakistan is a signatory to international conventions which seek the […]

• April 5, 2019
• Freedom of Expression, Media and Governance

QUETTA  : Former Balochistan chief minister and President National Party (NP) Dr Malik Baloch said on Thursday supremacy of parliament, judiciary and independent press could get the country out of its current turmoil. He shared these views on Thursday while meeting the newly elected body of Quetta Press Club and shared felicitations with the new members. […]

• April 5, 2019
• Media and Governance, Television

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Television Corporation will start making profits by June, Managing Director Arshad Khan said on Thursday. In his statement, he added that the primary beneficiary of this success would be the PTV employees. The current management had inherited massive liabilities, but PTV would reverse this trend by doubling the revenue for 2018-19 over that […]

• April 5, 2019
• Media Safety

KARACHI: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed serious concern over the forced disappearance of reporter of Daily Jang Karachi Syed Matloob Hussain Mosvi. Spokesman of IFJ has demanded instant investigation and safe recovery of Matloob Hussain Mosvi. While reviewing the reports of Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) the spokesman said that there is continuous […]

• April 4, 2019
• Broadcasting, Media and Governance, Television

ISLAMABAD PR – The Managing Director Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) Arshad Khan has announced that PTV will turn profitable by the end of June 2019 after posting losses over the past many years. He added that the primary beneficiary of this success will be PTV employees. Arshad Khan said the current management had inherited huge […]

• April 4, 2019
• Environmental Journalism

A 34-FOOT-LONG whale that washed ashore dead on the beach in Gwadar two days ago was quietly buried by municipality workers on Tuesday afternoon before its body could be examined by experts, sources told Dawn. “Perhaps the efficiency shown in burying the foul-smelling decomposed body was due to close proximity of the carcass to a […]