LAHORE: Journalists speaking in a session at the Faiz International Festival at Alhamra on Saturday said that journalism was never free in Pakistan and it can enjoy freedom of expression only while sticking to the truth. Truth is powerful and is supported by people. Finding and promoting the truth is difficult, but Pakistani media needs […]
LAHORE: In Pakistan, every textile entrepreneur concedes that the future of textiles lies in efficiently producing value-added apparel for exports, and upgrading the existing basic textile units with efficient technologies. Despite this realisation only a few are on the right path. Nishat Mills Limited Executive Director Ahmad Jehangir says that entrepreneurs, who have been in […]
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Mohammad Saleem Baig, has tendered an unconditional apology in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and expressed regret for issuing a ‘misleading’ advisory that banned appearance of television anchorpersons in other talk shows. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Oct 29 issued a show cause […]
ISLAMABAD: Renowned broadcaster, compere, anchorperson, social worker Arifa Shamsa was laid to rest at H-11 graveyard on Friday. She was the mother-in-law of Dawn’s senior staff reporter Mubarak Zeb Khan. She breathed her last early Friday morning after a protracted illness. She was 77. Born to well-known literary and social family in pre-partitioned Delhi, Ms […]
PESHAWAR:The time is ripe to come up with a new narrative on occupied Kashmir to expose India’s real face before the international community, said Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan. “Pakistanis and Kashmiris have potential to highlight Kashmir issue in the context of changing situation while getting India’s false narrative rejected by the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed serious concern over “human rights violations” at the internment centres set up in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. “The US has set up a detention facility in Guantánamo Bay outside its territorial limits to detain and interrogate foreign prisoners. In contrast we have detained our own citizens at internment centres where they have […]
LAHORE – WhatsApp groups continue to connect family, friends, coworkers, classmates and more. As people turn to groups for important conversations, users have asked for more control over their experience. WhatsApp is introducing a new privacy setting and invite system to help you decide who can add you to groups. To enable […]
Of the 17,807 content restrictions made by Facebook globally, the highest number — over 31 per cent — of the requests originated from Pakistan between January and July 2019, according to the platform’s latest transparency report released on Wednesday. Facebook restricted 5,690 items within Pakistan during the first half of 2019, as compared to 4,174 pieces from the second […]
KARACHI:Facebook restricted access to over 5,000 pages, posts and other content in Pakistan between January and June 2019 – the highest in the world – followed by Mexico with 4,727 content restrictions, the social media giant said in a report released on Wednesday. According to the Facebook Transparency Report, the amount of content it restricted access to in Pakistan […]
PESHAWAR: A vicious campaign has been launched in United Kingdom and on social media to communalise a prestigious educational institution by misleading the public and pre-empting the government’s attempt to regain its administrative control, say leaders of Christian community and legal experts. “Those involved in the campaign to communalise an administrative issue of the prestigious […]
QUETTA: A judicial magistrate on Wednesday acquitted a journalist in a cybercrime case. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had registered a first information report against Zafarullah Achakzai under the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act (2016) in June 2017 for spreading misinformation against the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) on social media. The court on Wednesday issued his […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed the Sindh Reproductive Healthcare Rights Bill aimed at promoting the reproductive healthcare rights of men and women and taking care of complications with regard to pregnancy and childbirth. The bill was originally handed to the standing committee on health a month earlier, which returned it to the […]
KARACHI: The National Academy of Performing Arts’ (Napa) Young Directors’ Theatre Festival will be held from Nov 16 to Dec 1, announced the artistic director of the Napa Repertory Theatre, Zain Ahmed, at a press conference on Wednesday evening. Mr Ahmed said the aim of the fest is to give opportunity to the young graduates […]
The Coalition For Women In Journalism hosted a discussion today at the Institute of Business Management, focused on overcoming the many challenges women journalists face in Pakistan. The session included CFWIJ member and senior journalist Afia Salam, who discussed the different issues that women journalists face in the industry, and how they could be overcome. […]
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