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Daily Archives: October 26, 2019

‘Animation industry needs trained writers’

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KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on the potential of animation in Pakistan organised by the Karachi Film Society (KFS) as part of the Pakistan Inter­national Film Festival (PiFF) 2019 have underlined the challenges that the country’s film industry is facing vis-à-vis animation. Asif Iqbal of Bridge Anim­ations said there are a few reasons that we […]


Art exhibition to show unity with Kashmiris held

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Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) in collaboration with Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) organized an art exhibition ‘Giving a voice to the voiceless’ to show unity with the people of Occupied Kashmir here on Friday. Federal Minister of IT & Telecom Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, who […]


MPAs for protecting home-based workers’ rights

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KARACHI  – Women members of Sindh Assembly, representing treasury and opposition benches, here Friday pledged to unanimously support the cause of gender sensitivity, including provision for economic empowerment of women and excluded groups. Actively participating in a session organised by Home Net-Pakistan and UN Women to mark World Home Based Workers (HBW) Day they also committed to rise […]


Women’s sufferings in patriarchal society reflected in artworks

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KARACHI: A solo exhibition, titled ‘Unnatural Selection’, featuring artworks by Fatima Munir on the theme of women’s miseries in a patriarchal society, is being held at the Canvas Art Gallery. Commenting on her works on display, the 40-year-old artist says they deal with socio-political issues and how they have directly affected her life. “I have […]


Friends and colleagues fondly remember Abul Hasanat at CEJ

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Friends and colleagues gathered on Friday at the Centre for Excellence in Journalism at the Institute of Business Administration (CEJ-IBA), Karachi, to celebrate the life and journalistic achievements of veteran journalist Abul Hasanat, who passed away on October 5. Talking about the late journalist’s honesty and dedication and integrity at work, his former colleague, Shahzad […]