KARACHI: Moosaji Yousuf Hafesji, former Edition in Charge of Dawn Gujarati, has recently passed away in London, his family said on Tuesday. He was 94. Also known as Deepak Bardolikar, Hafesji was born in November 1925 in Bardoli, India. His family said that after partition he migrated to Pakistan in 1948-49 and started working as […]
Among all the productions for television viewers, which include dramas, news, current affairs shows and musical programmes, the art of television documentary is arguably the most challenging, as it takes a lot of hard work, knowledge and insight to produce a good documentary. This view was echoed on Saturday night by academics and multiple television […]
Tania Aidrus, former Google executive who is now the incharge of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s new venture Digital Pakistan Initiative, vowed on Monday to play her role in resolving the financial issues faced by ever-increasing freelancers in the country due to the absence of PayPal, an American company operating a worldwide online payment system. She […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday condemned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for curbing and undermining the rights of minorities in a bid to ensure Hinduvta supremacy. “Concerned about the brutal and indiscriminate use of force by the state on Indian Muslim students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University, protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Bill,” […]
DADU: Haji Roshan Ali Khushik, the elder brother of Dawn’s Dadu correspondent Qurban Ali Khushik, died of heart failure at his home in Pir Bakhsh Colony located within the city late on Sunday evening. He was laid to rest in the Lal Hindi graveyard on Monday. The PPP MNA and MPA from the area as […]
LAHORE: A meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) for People’s Rights took place at the Lahore Press Club on Monday in which the participants took serious notice of the curbs on the press freedom and the non-government organisations (NGOs), harassment of human rights defenders and incidents of enforced disappearances of social and political workers […]
KARACHI: In a joint appeal, members of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and other rights organisations have called upon the government to take concrete action against threats, intimidation and harassment against journalists and to unequivocally condemn attacks on the independent media in Pakistan. In the letter addressed to President Arif Alvi, Prime Minister […]
LAHORE: Siddiqa Begum, the chief editor of the oldest Urdu literary journal of the country Adab-i-Latif, passed away after a protracted illness here on Sunday. Funeral prayers for the deceased were offered at Green Acres Housing Scheme on the Raiwind Road and she was laid rest in the graveyard of the neighbourhood. Qul for the […]
This government is at it again. Prime Minister’s Adviser on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan told journalists that the Prime Minister has given a task to the law minister to sit with the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) officials to finalise draft of a law to curb media coverage of convicts and absconders. Without […]
WhatsApp has announced ending support for older devices including all window phones operating systems after December 31, 2019, and resultantly millions of phones would stop functioning. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) while quoting WhatsApp has warned that WhatsApp is ending support for older devices. WhatsApp in it’s a blog post has mentioned that it is ending […]
ISLAMABAD:Special Assistant to PM on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar on Saturday said Facebook could be a powerful tool in overcoming the challenge of malnutrition. “Digital marketing tools on social media are essential to fight malnutrition in the 21st century,” she said while addressing the launching ceremony of the digital campaign, ‘Hackathon on Malnutrition’. “Facebook […]
Ziauddin College of Media Sciences (ZCOMS) on Friday hosted “ZCOMS Media Awards 2019”at Ziauddin University with the objective of providing an opportunity for young and ambitious students of different institutions to showcase their creativity in media and fine arts. Students from different colleges, universities and arts institutions participated in the contest and won awards in […]
KARACHI- The Artist Liaison Committee of the Arts Council of Karachi has announced that launch ceremony of the 1st documentary book of Urdu language “Documentary: History and Evolution” by the well known writer of PTV Nazimuddin will be held at 6 pm on December 15. The event will be organized at 1st Floor, Ahmed Shah […]
WhatsApp has announced ending support for older devices including all window phones operating systems after December 31, 2019, and resultantly millions of phones would stop functioning. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) while quoting WhatsApp has warned that WhatsApp is ending support for older devices. WhatsApp in it’s a blog post has mentioned that it is ending […]
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