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Police register case against journalist

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – A prominent journalist said Friday that police have registered a criminal case against him after he wrote a series of articles in his Internet weekly journal accusing, President Pervez Musharraf’s regime of corruption. Police in the nearby district of Rawalpindi confirmed a case had been registered and said it related to a […]


Radio awards ceremony held

LAHORE-The commercial awards ceremony of Radio Pakistan Lahore Station was held at Alhamra on Thursday night. The awards were given in sales and commercial categories. The Categories included life time achievement awards as well as the better commercial voice, commercial traffic department and the leading commercial voice of the year. The life-time achievement awards were […]


25,000 teachers to be trained in information technology

ISLAMABAD : Minister for Science and Technology Dr Ata-ur-Rahman on Friday said that 25,000 school teachers will be trained under Information Technology training programme. He was addressing the two-day 3rd All Pakistan Members Meeting & Exhibition of Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) here. Dr Ata said that by December this year about 15,000 to 18,000 […]


GEMS-2002 launched

LAHORE: The Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has launched its ‘GEMS-2002’ project with the inauguration of 20 incubators at the Software Technology Park on Friday. The PSEB has selected 20 five-member teams of young IT entrepreneurs to select one software project to write in six months. Each team will select a project from 100 IT […]


Project being launched to link varsities thru internet

ISLAMABAD: The government is launching a project to interlink colleges and universities through internet, science and technology minister Prof Attaur Rehman said on Friday. He said 15 to 20 public as well as private universities were to be interlinked under the project, which would be finalized by the end of September. Talking about the significance […]


Reporter beaten up in Karachi Electric Supply Corporation chief’s office

KARACHI- Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has strongly protested the manhandling and beating of Aziz Sanghur, the Staff Reporter of daily ‘The Nation’ for publishing a story about the protest of SITE Town against unannounced load shedding by the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, and Karachi Water Sewerage Board. In a joint statement here on Thursday, […]


Reporter beaten up in Karachi Electric Supply Corporation chief’s office

KARACHI- Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has strongly protested the manhandling and beating of Aziz Sanghur, the Staff Reporter of daily ‘The Nation’ for publishing a story about the protest of SITE Town against unannounced load shedding by the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, and Karachi Water Sewerage Board. In a joint statement here on Thursday, […]


Reporter beaten up in Karachi Electric Supply Corporation chief’s office

KARACHI- Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) has strongly protested the manhandling and beating of Aziz Sanghur, the Staff Reporter of daily ‘The Nation’ for publishing a story about the protest of SITE Town against unannounced load shedding by the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, and Karachi Water Sewerage Board. In a joint statement here on Thursday, […]


4 educational channels to be launched by year’s end

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) Government of Pakistan has decided to launch four new educational TV channels by end of this year. The said channels would be helpful in imparting quality education relating to IT and other fields. It is learnt that the said channels would be linked with public sector universities and later all of these channels […]


20 new software houses to be established

LAHORE: The Pakistan Software Export Board is establishing 20 new software houses comprising 100 IT entrepreneurs and 20 system support professionals under a project aimed at facilitating and developing the potential of fresh and experienced IT graduates. The project called GEMS-2002 will be formally launched here on Friday after final evaluation and selection of new […]


Pak IT firm complete 3 projects

Karachi: A Pakistani IT firm has completed three out of four contracts worth 1.5 million pounds it had signed with a foreign firm during IT Outsource World London EXHIBITION IN London earlier this year, a Pakistan Software Export Board’s Press release said here on Tuesday. “The PSEB’s initiative in participation in international IT exhibitions is […]


Jang chief reporter Arif Ishaq passes away

KARACHI: Arif Ishaq, a senior journalist and chief reporter of Daily Jang, Karachi, died on Monday after suffering a heart attack. He was 55. Beginning his day’s work on Monday, Arif Ishaq had gone to Civic Centre to deposit property tax for his house. After he reached the Excise and Taxation Department, on the fourth […]


600,000 new Telephones by, December

LAHORE (PPI) – Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) would be installing 600,000 new telephone connections at a cost of Rs 19 billion by December this year, said PTCL Chairman, Akhtar Ahmad Bajwa. “Before we lose our monopoly, by December 2002, we would have to give 600,000 new connections at a cost of Rs 18 to […]


Hard work of employees improved PTV image: Nisar

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Information and Media Development Nisar A Memon has said owing to hard work of the Pakistan Television (PTV) staff since March this year, the image of the organization has improved. Addressing the employees of PTV Karachi Centre at its premises on Saturday, the minister said after March there appeared a trend […]