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De-Sealing of Press Club Orderd

MANDI BAHAUDDIN,Jan.8: The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mandi Bahauddin, Tahir Hussain Kazmi, Tuesday ordered de-sealing of the press club building and accepted revision appeal of the club president Muhammed Zaheer Khan. The club building was sealed by the local STM on August 02, 2003 upon application by some newsman.A wave of happiness and joy […]


Oracle releases world’s First ‘grid-ready application server

KARACHI:Jan.8: The Oracle Corporation announced that if releases grid-ready application server, the first middle-ware software that simplifies the management of applications running in a grid computing environment. According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the new release offers nearly 600 new features, including advancements in integration and the Web services infrastructure. Customers and partners […]


PTCL invested $83 million to enhance Ufone network capacity

ISLAMABAD .Jan 08: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has invested US$ 83 million to enhance network capacity of Ufone and one million more connection will be provided to customers by June this year, said Chairman PTCL, Akhtar Ahmad Bajwa. Talking to APP here on Wednesday, Bajwa said at present Ufone has 0.6 million connections capacity […]


Dar-ul-Amaan For Homeless Women

MUZAFFARGARH,Jan.4:The district government will establish a welfare home in the city for homeless and deserving women, said the EDO Community Development, Malik Khair Muhammed Budh.Talking to newsman, he said the site for the home has been selected, and work on the project will begin in June. Source: The Nation Date:1/8/2004


Journalism award launched

Karachi.Jan.17:The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) with the sup­port of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) launched second annual Gender in ‘Journalism Award 2004 for print media journalists. All articles published between -January 1 to December 31, 2003 on gender-sensitive reports by ‘hale and female journalists are ,eligible for entry in the award. […]


Regulatory body for IT institutions soon

PESHAWAR,Jan.7:Provincial Minister for Science, Technology and Information Technology Hussain Ahmed Kanju has said that the MMA government has planned to set up a regulatory authority for regulating the business of public and private STIT-related institu-tions in the Province besides keeping check on their syllabus, standard and fee structure adding that establishment of a joint STIT […]


Journalism award launched

Karachi.Jan.17:The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) with the sup­port of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) launched second annual Gender in ‘Journalism Award 2004 for print media journalists. All articles published between -January 1 to December 31, 2003 on gender-sensitive reports by ‘hale and female journalists are ,eligible for entry in the award. […]


University for women in NWFP approved

PESHAWAR, Jan 7: The provincial development working party (PDWP) has approved the women university scheduled to start functioning on the premises of Frontier College for Women, Peshawar, soon. According to an official handout issued here on Tuesday, the approval was given at a meeting. The college premises will be utilized temporarily for three years and […]


Print media needs to redefine role: journalists

ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Print media in Pakistan and India needs to redefine its role to compete in an age where electronic and digital technologies have taken away the initiative of ‘on-the- spot’ reporting. Responding to a question about the trend in print media of stenographically-reproducing statements of the officialdom in India and Pakistan, Raja Mohan, […]


Hearing of revision pleas of French journalists adjourned till 8th

KARACHI:Jan.6: Justice Muhammad Sadiq Leghari of the Sindh High Court on Monday fixed January 8 for hearing arguments on a criminal revision application seeking return of the passports of two French journalists Jean-Paul Guilloteau and Joel Mark Epstein of a French weekly L’Express. When their applications came up, their counsel Nafees Siddiqui argued that the […]


Saarc journalists summit

More than 150 eminent journalists from the member countries of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) met at South Asian Free Media Association’s (SAFMA) Saarc Journalists Summit at Rawalpindi on January 3, 2004 to focus on the issues of free flow of and access to information. They called upon the governments of South Asia […]


Journalist dies

HYDERABAD,Jan.5:Chief Editor of local daily Haji Ghulam Muhammed Memon, breathed his last after a prolonged illness at Ziauddin Hospital Karachi on Sunday morning. He was 76. According to the family sources, late Haji Ghulam Muhammed Memon was ill for the last 10 years.He will be laid to rest at Tando Jam Graveyard on Monday morning. […]


Rashid pledges free movement of Saarc journalists to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid on Saturday promised free movement of Saarc journalists to Pakistan, asking them to lend a helping hand in promoting harmony in the region. Addressing South Asian journalists, converged on the second conference of the South Asian Free Media Association (Safma), the minister said the journalists could bridge political divides. […]


Media can help bring SAARC countries together: Rashid

RAWALPINDI.Jan 4:Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Saturday said the government was intending to end the internal and external differences at all levels for achieving the goal of national prosperity and evolution. Addressing the participants of a seminar organized under the auspices of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), the Information Minister said […]