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Daily Archives: July 15, 2020

Cable operators hold second token strike in Karachi

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KARACHI: The All Pakistan Cable Operators and Internet Association held a second token strike on Tuesday from 7pm to 10pm; however, the internet connections weren’t suspended in the city. The association also held a meeting with the Commissioner Karachi, Iftikhar Shallwani, which was futile. Today, the commissioner will hold another meeting with the association along […]


Court moved for ban on TikTok

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LAHORE: A civil miscellaneous application has been filed in the Lahore High Court demanding an immediate ban on a famous mobile phone video application, TikTok. Advocate Nadeem Sarwar moved the application on behalf of a citizen who is a petitioner in a main petition pending with the court. The lawyer contended that hearing of the […]


Judicial commission on journalist’s killing: PHC seeks comments from federal, KP govts

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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday asked the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to submit their comments within 20 days with regard to the judicial commission probing the kidnapping and subsequent killing of a journalist Hayatullah from North Waziristan. A two-member PHC bench comprising Justice Ishtiyaq Ibrahim and Justice Nasir Mehfuz heard the […]


Lack of PhD teachers: HEC bars admissions in IBA Karachi journalism department

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KARACHI: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has barred the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi from admitting a Master of Science in Journalism. It is learned that the HEC has barred the IBA’s Center for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) from pursuing a Master of Science in Journalism due to lack of PhD teachers and directed […]