‘Right to information’ is the term used for the right that citizens have to access information from the government. Unfortunately, the Freedom of Information (FoI) law that exists in Sindh is next to useless since it does not provide any clear guidelines or methods to access governmental information. It needs to be completely overhauled. The […]
KARACHI: A day after Sindh information and local government minister Sharjeel Memon announced that free WiFi will be launched for the public across Karachi, he clarified that he will first consult legal experts about providing this facility along with LED streetlights and CCTV cameras. “The streetlights in Karachi will be connected to a modern LED […]
CALIFORNIA – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the provision of free Internet access for users in Pakistan through the social-media giant’s new initiative Internet.org, which is currently available on Telenor network. Internet.org is a latest Facebook enterprise through which the company aims at providing free internet access to people in developing countries. Before Pakistan, […]
Karachi: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) of Lahore and PharmEvo, a private pharmaceutical company, have signed a Memorandum of Understating (MoU) for Online Continuing Medical Education (CME) portal to initiate CME/CDE courses for the healthcare professionals to build up their professional capacity. This public-private partnership in the field of medical education is the first […]
There are two factors that directly change the perception of an individual in a given society: the environment and their relativity to it in terms of dignity, quality of life and sense of responsibility. Unless it is realised, a healthy democracy cannot take shape. There is, however, a constant tussle between the wants of humans […]
ISLAMABAD – Chairman NAB Qamar Zaman Chaudhry chaired a meeting to review the current status of Whistle Blower Protection ACT at NAB Headquarters. While chairing the meeting, the chairman NAB said that one of the major issues of developing countries is corruption with its manifestations as bribery, nepotism, embezzlement and misuse of authority, leading to […]
Village life used to be very simple and sweet. Farmers would share their views with one another in a hujra or some other common place after toiling all day in the fields. The only window open to them to learn what was going on in the world outside happened to be the noble and honest […]
ISLAMABAD: Transparency International Pakistan team, associated with the Prime Minister Office on premier’s request, has submitted to the PM Nawaz Sharif a detailed anti-corruption strategy which includes seeking early enactment of three laws including Whistleblower Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act and Right to Public Service Act to check the menace of corruption. Along with […]
KARACHI: The restriction on youtube.com is into its third year but uncertainty on when and how it would be unblocked and divide on justifications behind the sanction continue to hover around the world’s largest video sharing website. Islamabad banned the social video-sharing platform on September 17, 2012 after its parent company Google had turned down […]
ISLAMABAD: For those who have been able to access YouTube in the last a few days, the joy is short-lived. “The reason why YouTube was accessible in certain parts of the country was because of a technical fault which will be fixed,” said Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman on Friday. The rumours […]
There was a recent news item suggesting that the ministry or governmental authority or whatever had declared that the ban on YouTube was not going to be lifted in Pakistan any time soon. The reason given was that improper content could not be removed from it. By improper content we all know what is meant. […]
THE report released on Thursday by Reporters Sans Frontières reminds us that politics around the world today has inevitably taken a heavy toll on media freedoms, squeezing both the public’s right to know and journalists’ duty to inform. “Press freedom … is in retreat in all five continents,” said the RSF 2015 World Press Freedom […]
ISLAMABAD: A three-member bench of the apex court directed all the provincial and federal governments on Tuesday to upload complete laws on the websites of the Federal Law Ministry. The Supreme Court (SC) bench, headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, also passed certain directives regarding errors in printing/publishing of law books. The development came as […]
THE outrage is over, the perceived hurt has healed and the piece of mischief that caused the furore in the first place has taken its place in the dustbin of history. The world has moved on — except for Pakistan, which stubbornly refuses to come to terms with the realities of the age of information, […]
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