Letter to the editor PTV is not only overstaffed but a cluster of incompetent individuals selected through political recommendations. Hence the permanent and competent staff be recruited, the policies of TV should be made in line with the teaching of the religion and keeping in view the cultural values of the society to respond nudity […]
KARACHI – A Pakistani scientist, Safia Khatri, hailing from Karachi, has been selected for a scholarship to join a scientific meeting on regenerative medicine at Rostock University, Germany. The programme offers an opportunity to the young scientists to meet, listen to, discuss, and interact with the most prominent scientists in the field of stem cell […]
LAHORE – Information Technology ministers of Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan will meet Federal Information Technology Minister Awais Leghari in Islamabad on June 10 to seek federal government help in development of a cyber technology base in different parts of the country. This was decided at an inter-provincial IT coordination meeting held here on June 9 […]
PESHAWAR – Local police on June 8 arrested some students, including girls, and a local journalist from a cyber cafe on the Peshawar University campus. The campus police arrested the students and the newsman, Mujeeb Khan, when they were busy in their routine work. Later, they were released on the intervention of senior police officers. […]
LAHORE – An Inter-Provincial Conference of Information Technology Ministers of all the four provinces is being held here on June 9. Punjab IT Minister Abdul Aleem Khan will preside over the conference aims at devising a joint strategy for expansion of the IT sector in the country. According to Mr. Aleem Khan, through the conference, […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Advertising Association (PAA) on June 7 announced the 18th PAA Excellence Awards-2004, for its member advertising agencies, for the period from January to December 2001-02. Synergy Advertising got the top position with seven awards, followed by Interflow Communication with four, and Paragon Advertising with three awards. Two special awards were also […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Advertising Association has announced the Best Mass Media Excellence Awards-2004. Daily Nawa-i-Waqt won the award in the newspaper category for its best performance during the year 2004. PAA Chairman S.H. Hashmi, Award Committee Chairman Mahmood Paarekh and Vice Chairman Jamshed Qureshi announced the awards during a Press briefing held here at […]
KARACHI – The Geo television channel has won electronic media award of the 18th PAA Excellence Awards-2004. The award distribution ceremony would be held in the last week of this month. This was announced by Mahmood Parekh, Chairman, 18th PAA Excellence Award-2004, at a press conference at a local hotel on June 8. He said […]
KARACHI – With the co-ordination of Joint Action Committee for Peoples’ Rights, the Karachi Press Club will hold a discussion on “Restoration of peace and role of administration in Karachi” on June 5 at 3 pm. Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on Home Affairs Aftab Shaikh, Leader of Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar […]
PESHAWAR – Social welfare groups and governments must make efforts for the implementation of the international humanitarian law to protect the people who are not part of the armed conflicts, speakers at a workshop on Geneva Conventions say. The workshop, held for local journalists, concluded on June 3. It was organized by the International Committee […]
LAHORE – Members of Parliament on June 10 urged the government to sign the UN convention against torture and human rights violations that Saudi Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal have already ratified. PPP Senators Sajjad Bokhari, Latif Khosa, Punjab Minister for Special Education Ms Qudsia Lodhi, MPAs Rana Aftab Ahmed, Raja Shafqat Abbasi, Mareen […]
LAHORE – The PTV came under fire in the house on Wednesday for its poor coverage of the proceedings in the Punjab Assembly. PPP’s Shafqat Abbasi, on a point of order, complained that the national channel was ignoring the Punjab Assembly’s parliamentary coverage. He demanded that private TV networks should be allowed to cover proceedings […]
KARACHI – The APNS has strongly reacted to the statement of Federal Information Minister, Shaikh Rashid Ahmed and termed it dangerous for the future of free press and democratic dispensation in the country. A spokesman for the APNS said that federal minister’s statement on the floor of the National Assembly regarding Wage Board matters was […]
KARACHI – Business Recorder staffer lost his motorcycle during the funeral prayers of Imam Ali Reza Imambargah bomb blast victims held at the Imam Ali Reza Mosque at M. A. Jinnah Road on June 1 afternoon. Photographer Ikram Mehdi of the daily Business Recorder had parked his motorcycle (KAN 8032, Honda CD 70) in the […]
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