ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will introduce Voice Over Internet Protocol within next few months to check increasing illegal telephony over Internet, said Chairman PTCL Akhtar Ahmad Bajwa. In an interview with PTV he said the company would also sign an agreement with selected parties within few days to provide telephony services to its […]
ISLAMABAD- Information Secretary Syed Anwar Mehmood said the present government firmly believes in the freedom of expression and it has granted unprecedented freedom to Pakistan Television (PTV). He made these remarks while addressing the second conference of PTV general managers. Citing the coverage of the planned rally of political parties in Karachi on May Day […]
Quetta- The Balochistan government has decided to set an information technology university in the province next month for which the primary education directorate building will be vacated within the next ten days. The decision was taken in the provincial cabinet meeting which was presided over by governor Justice (retd) Amirul Mulk Mengal. An alternative building […]
ISLAMABAD- Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Omar Asghar Khan said that the government would implement the Wage Board Award for Newspaper Employees. He was responding to questions by journalist at a briefing. He said the government has constituted the Seventh Wage Board for Newspaper Employees. The minister pointed out that there is also a […]
KARACHI- Large campus based IT university in Karachi will become operational by December 2001. This was stated by Shahid Firoz, Vice Chairman Economic Development Council. In the first phase, he said, a space of about 130,000 sq feet is being dedicated for the faculty. The construction of building for centrally located campus will be completed […]
ISLAMABAD- The government will be adding 165 mega bit to the bandwidth beside making “a very big reduction in the Internet cost as of end of May,” Minister for Science and Technology Professor Dr Atta-ur-Rahman said in an interview. “It has taken a good four to five months of hard negotiations before we are now […]
LAHORE- Farooq Mazhar, Pakistan’s most prominent sports journalist, television commentator, and former editor of The News, died in Bahrain after a short illness. The late Farooq Mazhar started his journalistic career in 1959 for the then popular sports magazine the Sports Times. From there he ventured over to the Pakistan Times as a sports reporter. […]
KARACHI- Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) after launch of service in Islamabad and Lahore is launching Ufone mobile service in Karachi, inauguration ceremony at the Sindh Governor House. Sindh Governor Muhammadmian Soomro would inaugurate the service at the ceremony to be attended also by Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Ataur Rehman and others. […]
GILGIT- A training workshop on use of Internet, email and effective searching techniques for Northern Area’s print and media held in Gilgit city. The workshop was organized by the Northern Areas Conservation Strategy with the sustainable development programme of International Union for Conservation of Nature. Ismail Shah, organizer of the workshop said the workshop was […]
KARACHI- The Internet is rapidly gaining popularity even in the far-flung areas of the country, which speaks of its immense potential. This was stated by Moin Haider Zaidi, Coordinator of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SNDP) while talking to this agency. However, he pointed out, there are only five internet lines in the whole of […]
LAHORE- The International Press Institute’s (IPI) annual World Press Freedom Review 2000 published in Vienna (Austria) has given a mixed review to the Pakistan government on press freedom, pointing to the failure to provide security to journalists and made institutions, though noting that it followed a liberal policy with fewer restrictions than previous governments. The […]
KARACHI- Syed Yousuf Raza, a veteran journalist, died after a protected illness. Late Raza born in 1920 started his journalistic career in 1939 from Calcutta (Kolkatta). He migrated to Pakistan in September 1947 and worked for Time of Karachi, edited the Textile Journal and also produced a monthly art paper entitled Artistic Pakistan for two […]
KARACHI- The Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Prof Dr Attaur-Rehman, performed the inauguration of the Internet kiosks at the Karachi airport. As many as 50 Internet kiosks have been set up at Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore airports, and all of them will be operational within this week. As many as 22 kiosks Are […]
QUETTA- The assistant commissioner, Bela, Noorul Haq Baluch denied that he had dislodged journalists from the premises of the press club and locked it. In a clarification, he said that the premises was given to the press club on temporary basis. It belonged to the local Town Committee where the court of judicial magistrate is […]
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