KARACHI – Media is a vehicle to project the products which the academia produces. Media, academic and policy-makers constitutes a strategic triangle, the outcome of which is a balanced and well-built country with a knowledge-based society, these views were expressed by Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Qaisar and others during their address at the panel […]
Sahar Bandial Horrific memories have a staying power, easily rekindled upon the appropriate trigger. The tragic end of Fakhra Younus in Rome last month was one such trigger. It took me back to the summer afternoon, some years ago, at the Mayo Hospital in Lahore: a dark room with a hospital bed covered by a […]
Tehmina Qureshi KARACHI: The timing of the launch of the ‘History Media Policy’ project by the University of Karachi’s history department was impeccable. Just before it happened, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was convicted of contempt by the Supreme Court. In the university itself, classes were cancelled by activists of political parties. The university’s administration […]
HYDERABAD: A man killed his elder sister in a case of honour killing in Liaquat Town area in Tandojam, Hyderabad Rural, on Thursday. The victim Nawabi Mirjat, 40 years old, was a widow and a mother of 4 children. The doctors at Tandojam Taluka hospital said the victim was shot thrice and pronounced dead on […]
KARACHI: Sindh has a whopping 192 press clubs, with Khairpur, Thatta and Dadu topping the list of districts with the largest number of press clubs at 22, 19 and 15 respectively. Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri told the Sindh Assembly on Thursday that the government was committed to working with press clubs, based on directives […]
Shaheen Sehbai DUBAI: After losing the case of their chief executive in the apex court of the country and bringing to him the dishonour of becoming the first convicted PM of the country, top notch lawyer Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and chief spokesman Qamar Zaman Kaira, have turned their guns on a section of the media, […]
LAHORE: Commenting on the Supreme Court verdict in the contempt case against the prime minister, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for an end to confrontation between the state organs. The HRCP believed that, while it was gratifying to note that the Supreme Court had held its hand while sentencing the PM, […]
By Sami Shah [email protected] Don’t worry everyone, the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) is on the case. Using its well-honed skills of analysis and observation, it has rooted out the main cause of Pakistan’s recent disasters. Like Sherlock Holmes, they looked at the nation and by noting the rough patches on our knees, the dirt under our fingernails, […]
ANOTHER plane crashed while approaching Islamabad airport, resulting in tragic deaths of 127 people on board. The news of this tragic air crash saddened and depressed the whole nation, but once again our electronic media disappointed us by telecasting the news of the tragedy in such a manner as if reporting some recreational event. Almost […]
“ I cannot accept that a six-year-old girl was cleaning the rifle; it is not physically possible for such a young girl to even hold a shotgun,” Human Rights Activist Gulnaz Shah. MANSEHRA: The death of a teenage girl by her six-year-old sisterin Bhonja village raised quite a few questions by human rights activists on Tuesday. […]
By Farrukh Khan Pitafi The writer hosts a show called “Capital Circuit” for News One The day Bhoja Air’s plane crashed, so did common sense. Amazingly, the petulance of many people that was evident on the social media, revolved around the television coverage of the debacle, and not the tragedy itself. Outrage and disbelief over […]
Kamran Mansoor and M. Waqar Bhatti Karachi: The police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a serial killer, who has allegedly killed two women and a girl after sexually assaulting them during the last few months. He would dismember the bodies of his victims and dump the pieces in different parts of the city. The […]
The judicial magistrate (South) on Tuesday remanded an accused in the murder case of senior journalist Murtaza Razvi in police custody till April 30. The face of the accused, Waqas alias Waqar, was covered by police when he was produced before the court. Razvi, who was a senior assistant editor and head of Dawn’s magazines, […]
FAISALABAD: Speakers at a seminar have urged media to ensure implementation of the media ethics and give solutions to the social issues of common man instead of focusing on crime and politics at large. The seminar on media ethics was arranged by the Public Relations and Publications Department, the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, the Higher […]
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