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NCA to hold Short Film Festival tomorrow

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By: Arshad Bhatti LAHORE: Students of National College of Arts (NCA) have planned to hold an online Short Film Festival on Friday wherein 10 short movies would be screened. The festival, featuring short films by the students from Pakistan and India, would be held on Friday (tomorrow). The idea of the festival is initiated by […]


NA body for end to ads on channels showing Indian culture

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting underlined on Thursday the need for taking solid steps to improve role of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to effectively regulate media outlets for achieving national development. The committee was chaired by Belum Hasnain. Its members especially Bushra Rehman was of the view that […]


‘Film industry has bright future’

The short film, shot as a dark conversation between the protagonist and his friend, leaves much to the imagination of the viewers. DESIGN: AMNA IQBAL/FILE The day began at the LUMS International Film Festival with a screening of the film The Blue Veins, based on Saadat Hasan Manto’s Neeli Ragein. Director Zeeshan Kazmi, who also […]


Film festival: Three day FiLUMS to screen 90 films

LAHORE: Almost 90 films will be screened at the LUMS International Film Festival FiLUMS 2013 that opened here on Friday. More than 200 participants have registered before the official opening ceremony. The festival is expected to draw 400 to 500 visitors. FiLUMS 2013 is the seventh edition of the festival organized by the LUMS Media […]


BBC Urdu programme on private TV channel soon

KARACHI: BBC World Service is launching the first ever BBC Urdu TV programme, Sairbeen, which will be broadcast by a private TV channel in Pakistan. From Monday, 11 February, the BBC’s new TV programme in Urdu will air three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 11 pm PST. Sairbeen draws on the […]


Jummah Kareem, special transmission of Geo TV today

KARACHI: Friday is the best day of the week. It is the mother of all days and the most virtuous in the sight of Allah. In the sight of Allah it has more greatness than Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha. There is no day more virtuous than Friday. There is such an hour in this day that […]


Outlawed in Pakistan — Kainat Soomro’s story on film

Amid the media storm that broke after the gang rape and death of a 23-year-old Delhi girl Jyoti Pandey, two journalists have made a short film that follows the story of a teenage girl allegedly raped in a village in Dadu, rural Sindh in 2007. The story revolves around the central character of the film, […]


Aangan Terha being staged from today

KARACHI: A stage play based on the famous 1980s TV series Aangan Terha will be staged from Feb 8 at the Arts Council Karachi auditorium. This was announced by writer of the play Anwar Maqsood at a press conference at the Arts Council on Thursday. The play would last for 90 days. He said the […]


Good Morning Karachi team goes to Sweden

By: Mahrukh Abbasi GOTEBORG: The 36th Goteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in Sweden gave the team of Pakistani film Good Morning Karachi (GMK) a reason to visit their brutally cold city this time of year. Why else would one fly to Sweden if not for the recognition of their independent project premiered at the largest […]


Reviving film industry: concerted efforts needed

By: Dr S. IFTIKHAR AMHED OUR film industry has also been facing difficulties and retrogression. This situation has resulted in the shutdown of a number of cinema-houses and forced several large screen actors to work as TV artistes or leave Pakistan in search of new prospects. It is worthwhile to mention that some Pakistani artistes […]


FM-93 and Medium-wave networks are broadcasting the event live from Islamabad radio

Radio Pakistan‚ in collaboration with Pakistan Television‚ is holding annual Naat Competition at Z.A. Bokhari Auditorium of National Broadcasting House in Islamabad on Thursday. Information Minister‚ Qamar Zaman Kaira is expected to be the chief guest on the occasion. The winners of the regional competitions held earlier in all four provinces‚ and Azad Kashmir‚ Gilgit- […]


BBC Urdu, Express News collaborate to air Sairbeen

By: Farhan Zaheer KARACHI: For the first time ever BBC World Service is making a mark on Pakistan’s national television with its flagship programme, Sairbeen. The live show is going to start from February 11 on Express News with live input from the BBC World Service Studio, London. Sairbeen, an Urdu word, does not need […]


Aalam Aur Aalim’ starts on Geo TV today

KARACHI: ‘Aalam Aur Aalim’, hosted by Dr Aamir Liaquat Husain will start today (Monday, February 4) and will be aired every Monday to Thursday at 6:00pm on Geo TV. As usual it will encompass social and religious problems of our society. The chief objective of this programme is to teach and guide the masses, so […]


That was broadcasting

By: Masood Hasan Over the top When we say we live in the backwaters of what passes for the civilised world, we are dead right. The great changes that sweep the world day and night find little mention here. The arts particularly find no mention and, while dozens of great men and women come and […]