Media and Society

‘Media can grow only in accountable societies’

* Journalists need to feel safe, should have access to information, impunity and community radio KARACHI: “Free media is essential for democracy. It fosters transparency and accountability, both of which

Tribute paid to late journalist

HYDERABAD: Press Club Hyderabad held a condolence meeting to eulogise the services of late senior journalist Muhammad Bux Johar who expired in Karachi last week. The condolence meeting was chaired

Young actors still flock to PTV

By Saadia Qamar KARACHI: Gone are the days when Pakistan Television (PTV) was bursting with young artists and creative minds. Now the television station bears a forlorn look and hardly

Punjab festival ends at Lok Virsa

ISLAMABAD: The first-ever Punjab Cultural Festival, organised by Lok Virsa in collaboration with National Cultural Development Foundation, concluded here on Sunday. The concluding ceremony was followed by a Punjabi musical

Media’s slippery slope

By Moeed Yusuf SYED Talat Hussain, the widely respected TV anchor, has emerged as a national hero following his ordeal aboard the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla. . Talat Hussain was part

Workshop on playwriting held

Karachi: A workshop on playwriting held by the Pakistan Debate Council (PDC) went very successful as issues of declamation, presentation and art of dialogue writing in relation to drama, stage

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