ISLAMABAD- Keeping in view the growing need of Internet in the country, Pakistan Telecommunication Company has decided in principle not to increase the Digital Cross Connect (Internet) tariff for shared Internet Protocol (IP) bandwidth. Therefore, the bandwidth tariff will remain the same as applicable for other types of IP connectivity w.e.f. April 1, 2000, Akhtar […]
QUETTA- The Taliban have kidnapped and threatened to kill a Canadian journalist in the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, according to a colleague. Freelance journalist Ken Hetchman is being kept in a small cell bound hand and foot, said Jonathan Steele of Britain’s Guardian newspaper. A local Pashtun man handed Steele one of Hetchman’s […]
TALOQAN- A Swedish television journalist was killed in northern Afghanistan after armed men robbed the house where he was staying. Ulf Stroemberg, a cameraman for Sweden’s TV4, was awoken by a knock on the door and was shot in the chest, said Rolf Porseryd, the reporter with whom he was sharing the house. “As soon […]
SHAHDADKOT- The city literary circles and activists of different political parties took out a protest rally to condemn the torturing of a poet and journalist Zameer Kharal by District Superintendent of Police (DSP) Shahdadkot police. Hundreds of poets, lecturers, workers of political parties and social welfare organizations including Sindhi Adabi Sangat, Shahdadkot Journalists Alliance, Jeay […]
LAHORE- Prominent journalist and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Foundation Majid Nizami has said that journalists should work together to find out means to restore the prestige of Press. He supported the suggestion that government should declare the office of newspaper Zamindar as a national monument and set up an institute there for the promotion of journalism. […]
KARACHI- The Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Technology (KASBIT) is all set to setup the country’s first high impact Technology Park here at a Cost of $50 million. The IFC and Asian Development Bank have showed their interest to be equity partners in this project, work on which will be started next year and […]
ISLAMABAD- The claim of possessing nuclear weapons by Osama Bin Ladin in an interview to a Pakistani journalist has now been fully exposed as untrue and a big bluff, with the Taliban retreating into the southern part of Afghanistan and the whereabouts of Osama Bin Ladin being unknown. Many in Islamabad have begun even doubting […]
KARACHI- Drug pushers and criminals stormed the residence of a reporter of an Urdu daily, Express, in Azizabad for reporting a news against him. Family members of the reporter, Tufail Ahmad, informed him about the incident at his office, saying the attackers had also threatened of the dire consequences. Tufail, however, denied reporting of any […]
KARACHI- A two-day exhibition on ‘IT the Future of Pakistan – Enabling IT Education’ will be held at the Expo Centre of the Export promotion Bureau beginning on Jan7. It is being designed and developed with objectives of providing strong medium for accessing and delivering state-of-the-art technologies and products in the IT sector. The exhibition […]
LAHORE- Launching ceremony of a new Urdu magazine Badalti Dunya will be held at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday (today). The ceremony will be presided over by Ahmad Bashir while Fakhar Zaman will be chief guest. Source: The Nation Date:11/25/2001
TOPI (Swabi) – A first ever two-day software exhibition opened at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute. Universities and institutes throughout the country are participating in the event. This is the first ever event of its kind in a remote region like Topi. The event would be open for general public for both the days and was […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reportedly given the final shape to the policy of putting a ban on making telephone calls through the Internet. According to informed sources, PTA is losing revenues of millions of rupees in the head of telephone calls to foreign countries made through various Internet messenger services. The Internet […]
HYDERABAD- The Internet center at the Allama 1.1. Kazi central library, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, will start functioning in a few days for providing Internet facilities to the teachers and the students. The vice chancellor (VC) of the university Mazharul Haq Siddiqui visited the library and inquired about the progress of the ongoing work for […]
GILGIT- The Education Department, Northern Areas, has set up four information technology centers in four colleges. Northern Areas Education Secretary Prof Khwaja Meherdad stated this. The centers have been set up in Postgraduate College for Boys, Gilgit; Degree College for Girls, Gilgit; Degree College for Boys, Skardu and Degree College for Girls, Skardu. The Secretary […]
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