KARACHI: A training workshop was arranged on the concept of ‘citizen journalism’ and ‘social media’. The aim of the workshop was to create awareness among the masses about the concept of citizen journalism and social media, find solutions to improve it and to make the people realise the role of it in strengthening democracy in […]
KARACHI: Abid Khan’s fascination with nature and the beauty it withholds is apparent in his latest series of works. The English Literature academic claims he uses paintings as an effective medium to communicate his vision and ideas to the audience. His work, one finds, is mostly inspired by landscapes one comes across in English prose […]
By Arsalan Haider LAHORE: Watercolour paintings by 16 artists from Karachi and Lahore featured at Coopera Art Gallery here on Tuesday. Several renowned artists, art teachers, students and art lovers thronged to the gallery on the first day. The exhibition displays around 73 art works by nine artists of Karachi and seven from Lahore. The […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: An exhibition of renowned artist Nahid Raza’s latest body of work opened at the Canvas Art Gallery on Tuesday evening. Nahid Raza has proven credentials as one of Pakistan’s leading woman artists. Her exploration of female condition, sometimes dubbed feminism, and her figurative paintings have been discussed and admired to death. Recently […]
Anil Datta Karachi: The oozing musical talent among Karachi’s youth that has lain hidden over the decades on account of various factors, was showcased Monday evening at a musical programme at the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa). It was a pleasure to see the flowing talent among young men and women , former graduates […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: It would be an exercise in futility to try and wax eloquent on the work of the incomparable Sadequain. Artists like him surpass that phase where analysing their creative endeavours fetches nothing: you just have to marvel at how and why they’re able to achieve immortality by creating art that transcends life. […]
KARACHI: A teenage girl was killed and her mother and sister were wounded in their house in Hussain Hazara Goth in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Wednesday, police said. Gulistan-i-Jauhar SHO Irshad Gabol said that suspect Mehram Ali had divorced his wife, Latifa Bibi, 37, some four years ago and she had since been living at her brother’s […]
KARACHI – There is a need to establish a women university in Karachi. As a matter of fact, the population of the metropolis has increased rapidly over the years, exceeding the 15 million mark with majority of women and there is no single public university for women in the City. Fifteen years have been elapsed, […]
Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: The themes of life, love, dreams and light were highlighted in the art exhibit titled ‘Saat Kahaniyan’, or Seven Stories, at the Chawkandi Art Gallery. The display that ran for seven days was highly appreciated by art enthusiasts and critics. They observed that after a long time, bullets and weapons and […]
By: Hina Mahgul Rind KARACHI: The telecommunications business environment in Pakistan is evolving at a fast pace, creating the need for new and innovative business models. Service providers are facing significant business challenges on various fronts, increased competition locally and globally, erosion of customers loyalty due to commoditisation of services and decreasing margins for traditional […]
KARACHI- Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has constituted Press Council Committee, says a press release issued by CPNE Secretary General Amir Mehmood on Wednesday. Khushnood Ali Khan (Daily Sahafat) was nominated as Chairman, while Rameeza Majid Nizami (Daily Nawa-i-Waqt) as Vice Chairperson of the newly formed committee. Other members of Press Council Committee (PCC) […]
By Mashal Usman KARACHI: Never did miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ seem so spiteful nor did the prince of Urdu ghazal, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, seem so wise as they did on Tuesday as children from ninth grade gathered to act out the lives of these literati. The parents, who […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: In art time and space matter as much as nature or anything related to socio-cultural issues faced by man on a regular basis. Time indicates the epoch in which artists set their work while space signifies the milieu where their subjects exist. And when the subject is the female figure with all […]
KARACHI: Women journalists were awarded at the country’s first women in media awards ceremony organised by Uks, a research, resource and publication centre on women and media, on Wednesday. “It is great to see women journalists getting recognition through the Uks platform, but while celebrating today’s media women we should also remember the pioneers such […]
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