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Music when soft voices die

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I don’t claim I was Musadiq Sanwal’s friend. I made his acquaintance a few years ago. I had heard colleagues at the Dawn office rave about how hard he had worked to set up Dawn.com. He, at the time, had been editor of the website for more than a year. I don’t even remember when […]


Journalists should struggle for broader social change, says Minto

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ISLAMABAD: With the example of one of the country’s most respected journalists, veteran progressive politician and constitutional expert Abid Hassan Minto advised media persons to strengthen their trade unions and take on broader responsibilities of social change rather than just demanding rights and freedom for themselves. He was speaking at a gathering to mark the […]


Renowned journalist Qamar Ahmed scores 400 not out in Tests

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KARACHI: Just as Pakistan and Sri Lanka begin to lock horns in the final fixture of the three-Test series at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium today, renowned freelance Pakistani cricket journalist Qamar Ahmed reaches the unique landmark of covering the 400th Test match of his illustrious career. A former first-class cricketer – who once competed with […]


Haroon Ahmad, an Express News staffer, killed in robbery

RAWALPINDI: One is supposed to go home — straight — after work. Any detours worry the parents, do they not? But a 30 -year-old youth despite a promise to his father of coming in “five minutes” was obliged by two bullets to take a detour to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where doctors pronounced him […]


Malik asks govt to release dues of media houses

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ISLAMABAD: The PPP Senator Rahman Malik on Friday stated in the Senate that the government was not paying Advertisement dues of the media houses due to which they were also not paying salaries to their employees. On a point of objection in the Senate session he said that reporters and cameramen of certain media groups […]


Media workshop

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LAHORE: Bahauddin Zikaria University Lahore Campus Friday organised a media workshop titled “How to Excel in Reporting.” BNU Dean Faculty of Social Sciences Dr Mehdi Hassan and columnist Javed Chaudhary were the resource persons. Addressing the participants, they said that the media got prominent status among all professions. They said reporting and conveying the truth […]


Journalist Anwer Pirzado remembered

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KARACHI: Speakers at the seventh death anniversary of poet and journalist Anwer Pirzado on Tuesday discussed his multifaceted personality and recalled how he depicted a story which haphazardly began in the middle and ended with `a complete sense of incompletion`. `He was a lover…of Sindh, the Indus and (Shah Abdul Latif) Bhital. He was a […]


Civil society seeks ban on child domestic workers

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LAHORE: The Child Rights Movement (CRM) Punjab, along with numbers of different civil society organisations staged a protest demonstration outside Lahore Press Club on Tuesday and demanded ban on child domestic labour in the city as well as across the province. The protesters were carrying banners and placards inscribed with different slogans against killings of […]


Recovered Hindu teacher complains of pressure for conversion

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PESHAWAR: A missing Hindu female schoolteacher told a local judicial magistrate on Monday after recovery from Bahawalpur that her kidnapper had forced her to marry him after changing her faith and kept her unconscious for most of the time during captivity on refusal. Magistrate Mohammad Fayyaz Khan ordered the local police to conduct medical examination […]


Glowing tributes paid to Maulana Johar

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Glowing tributes were paid to freedom fighter Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar at a seminar held on Saturday to mark Johar Day. Speaking on the occasion, Engr Muhammad Adil Usman, great grandson of Muhammad Ali Johar and chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology, said the way to success and glory could only […]


Seminary fumes over publicising Sami’s fatwa in local media

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PESHAWAR: In yet another major set back to the polio programme, the Fata Secretariat lands in trouble for publicising fatwa (religious decree) of Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, in the local media through paid advertisements without the permission and knowledge of its administrator Maulana Samiul Haq. Maulana Yusuf Shah, a spokesman of Maulana Samiul Haq, […]


Non-Muslim residents of Lyari afraid of returning home

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KARACHI: “There were five of them,” she said while holding her young child with one arm and hiding her face with the other. That’s how the young mother of three, and a victim of gang-rape, started narrating her ordeal at a press conference called at the Karachi Press Club by the Human Rights Commission of […]


Tribute paid to writer Ibrahim Joyo

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KARACHI: Director of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Prof Adibul Hasan Rizvi has stressed the need for ensuring provision of best health-care and educational facilities to the poor sections of the society. Addressing a ceremony held to pay tribute to noted writer Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo for his services, he said that free health-care […]


PTA addresses 98% of 31,266 telecom consumers’ complaints

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has addressed around 30,912 consumers complaints which are almost 98 percent of the total complaints received against telecom operators during 2012-13. The authority received 31,266 complaints against telecom operators including Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs), Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Local Loops, Long Distance Internationals (LDIs), Wireless Local Loop (WLL), […]