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Daily Archives: December 13, 2022

After Google, TikTok set to open office in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD – Chinese-origin video-sharing platform TikTok will soon open its offices in Pakistan with negotiations having been completed between the social media giant and the government. Federal Information Technology Minister Syed Aminul Haque confirmed that the popular social media platform will open its offices in the federal capital Islamabad as, according to him, the company […]


Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) makes No Objection Certificates (NOC) compulsory for private housing societies to run ads on TV channels

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 12 (APP): The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Monday made it mandatory for private housing societies to obtain No Objection Certificates (NOC) before running any advertisement on TV Channels. The decision to this effect was taken during the 175th meeting of the authority chaired by its Chairman Muhammad Saleem Baig, said […]


District admin takes over Attock Press Club building

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ATTOCK – senior journalist and patron in chief of the Attock Press Club Syed Raza Naqvi has said that district administration has forcibly occupied the furnished building of Attock Press Club along with office equipment worth of millions of rupees and handed it over to the Revenue Department ignoring the strong protests of the local […]


Need to go an extra mile for stable economic strategy: Abbasi

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While addressing the “Meet the Editors” organized by the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that the members of the federal and provincial assemblies are a hurdle in empowering the local government system. Due to the conflict of interests, the local government system cannot be stable. New administrative […]


Veteran journalist Abul Hassan Naghmi dies at 92

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Senior journalist, broadcaster and writer Abul Hassan Naghmi died at the age of 92 in the United States on Monday. Abul Naghmi had been living in the United States for the last 50 years. He was a close friend of Saadat Hasan Manto. Mr Naghmi founded a society of Urdu Literature in America and wrote […]