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Daily Archives: May 19, 2019

The life of painting

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Canvas & Colleagues, the title of a recently concluded exhibition in Lahore, invites you to investigate the relationship between artists. Can canvases be colleagues? Is it possible for two artists of equal merit to have a firm friendship? In recent history, artists known to be close companions, like Van Gogh and Gauguin or Jasper Johns […]


Digitising our past-V

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By the summer of 2018, the preservation, sorting, annotation, and preliminary scanning process had been initiated in the Punjab Archives Digitisation Project. Despite the sweltering heat of the Punjab summer, a small team sat at Anarkali’s Tomb delving into the centuries old record. When the team members started to work, they did not even have […]


Journalistic ethics

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ON Friday, PPP Punjab president Qamar Zaman Kaira’s son was killed in a car accident, along with his friend. To lose a child is one of the greatest sorrows to befall a parent, and messages of condolence began pouring in. Along with these expressions of grief, however, there was an outpouring of disgust at the way the […]


Media houses attack case adjourned till June 13

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Karachi : An anti-terrorism court judge on Saturday expressed resentment over absence of lawyers from the hearing of two cases against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leaders. The cases are related to attacks on media houses on August 22, 2016 after hate speech by the MQM founder. Farooq Sattar and other accused appeared in the anti-terrorism […]