Fighting climate change is the most important war that we need to fight right now, said Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Monday while addressing a seminar as its chief guest. ‘Climate Change, Summer & Monsoon Safety Awareness Seminar’ was organised in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), the […]
ISLAMABAD:Minister for Information Technology Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said that the government will allocate a piece of land in Haripur, Hazara to telecom companies for setting up mobile manufacturing plants. Speaking at the Huawei Mobile Pakistan Summit, the IT minister said the government had discussed with some telecom companies including Huawei the setting up […]
If one was to do a breakdown of the Information Minister’s press conferences by subject, it would emerge that the vast majority of them have been reserved for a single subject – corruption and the ongoing investigations into the opposition’s politicians. Given this imbalance, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Information Minister also […]
ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s (HRCP) annual report 2018 documented that the overall situation of human rights deteriorated across the country during the election year, with a startling curtailment of individual and collective freedom of expression. The commission’s council members — during the launch ceremony of the report at a local hotel on […]
A sessions court in Karachi on Monday extended by two days the interim pre-arrest bail granted to journalist Shahzeb Ali Shah Jillani in a case pertaining to alleged cyber terrorism, electronic forgery and defamatory remarks regarding the state institutions. Last week, the court had granted an interim bail before arrest to the journalist in a […]
In view of the cheating culture at its peak in the ongoing Secondary School Certificate annual examinations 2019 being held under the Board of Secondary Education Karachi since April 1, the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) has imposed a ban on education journalists from the coverage of examination centres apparently in a bid to […]
When it comes to hard hitting stories, female journalists in Pakistan at times play second fiddle. It is high time we stop putting a patriarchal lens on stories. You! takes a look… There have been a number of famous male journalists in Pakistan who are inspirational reporters and news anchors. Their stories are concrete and […]
Lahore: The three-day Tamasha Festival concluded with a spectacular ‘Next Generation Showcase Performance’ by a team of foreign and local artistes at the rooftop of the Institute for Art and Culture on Sunday, said a press release. Twelve international theatre activists from 10 countries collaborated with eight Pakistani artistes and prepared three brief performances, focusing […]
Karachi: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi said that Mangroves Plantation Campaign is an opportunity to strengthen our unique relationship with nature. In his message on mangroves plantation drive, Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi said, “Mangrove forests offer a promising habitat and breeding ground for a large variety of marine life; including fish, […]
Facebook’s social networking site, photo-sharing social network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp were inaccessible to some users on Sunday, downdetector.com, which monitors outages, showed. The social media apps seem to be working now though after a global outage. Downdetector.com indicated that there were more than 12,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook at its […]
Lahore: Justice Hasnat Ahmad Khan, Chairman of the Wage Board for newspaper workers, said on Sunday he would announce the award after consultations with, and obtaining agreement of, newspaper owners and employees. Speaking at a Meet the Press Programme of the Lahore Press Club, he said the interim relief for newspaper workers announced last week […]
Lahore- EcoSikh, a US-based organisation, will launch its first-ever tree plantation campaign ‘Guru Nanak Sacred Forest’ in Pakistan tomorrow (Monday). The campaign, named after founder of the Sikh religion Baba Guru Nanak , will kick off at the Punjabi Language Research Centre in Kasur in connection with Baba Guru Nanak’s 550th birth anniversary. The campaign will be […]
Speakers at a symposium urged the government to take effective and concrete measures to protect rapidly-deteriorating environment in the country by introducing and implementing climate-friendly policies. The Earth Day symposium was organised by Habib University (HU) at its auditorium, here on Saturday. Adjunct Professor HU Urban Planning Farhan Anwar said that more than 75 percent […]
It is 1879 and, in the highly cultured and sophisticated city of Lucknow, an inquisitive and rather eager young man by the name of Azad — enigmatic but appropriate — is sauntering through the streets and localities taking note of how the rituals of Muharram are practised. As he records his sharp and humorous observations, […]
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