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Daily Archives: August 29, 2019

TV anchor held for harassing ex-colleague

KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency’s cybercrime wing raided the head office of a TV channel here on Wednesday and arrested an anchorperson on charges of allegedly harassing and blackmailing his former colleague through social media. Anchor Irshad Jagirani was taken into custody during the raid on Sindh TV head office, which drew criticism from the […]


Literature festival returns to Islamabad after more than a year

ISLAMABAD: More than 150 speakers will participate in 52 sessions at the sixth Islamabad Literature Festival, scheduled to be held next month after a year and a half hiatus. A press conference on the event, which is organised by the Oxford University Press (OUP), was held on Wednesday. It was announced that the three-day festival […]


Over 160 local, foreign, speakers, authors expected at ILF

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ISLAMABAD: Over 160 speakers and authors from Pakistan, UK, USA, France, Germany, Russia, and Sri Lanka will come together to add their valuable contribution to the sixth annual Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) which will be held from September 27 to 29 at a local hotel. Every year, the capital gets its much-needed intellectual and cultural […]