KARACHI: District Jail administration Shikarpur is providing illegal facilities to the convicts of Wali Babar murder case due to their political backing, The News has learnt. An official of District Jail Shikarpur told The News on the condition of anonymity that convicts of Wali Babar case Faisal Mehmood alias Nafsiyati, Naveed alias Polka, Muhammad Ali […]
Pakistani artist Shahid Rassam has embarked on an ambitious series of artworks to visualise the poetry of Ghalib and Gulzar Internationally known Pakistani artist Shahid Rassam is currently working on a major series of artworks based on the works of the great Urdu poets Ghalib and Gulzar. The series is a novel way of expressing […]
KARACHI: Music, like poetry, communicates before it is understood. The language of rhythm and melody has its own, unique method of touching different people in different ways. German musical group Mahaphon Clang’s performance at the National Academy of Performing Arts on Friday evening was no less a distinct experience. It would be futile to classify […]
KARACHI: Although there were several book launches, workshops, talks along with plenty of other happenings at the Teachers’ Literature Festival organised jointly by the Idara-e-Taleem-o-Agahi and Oxford University Press (OUP) at the Arts Council on Thursday, one of the best features of the day, a talking book, the first of its kind in Pakistan, was […]
KARACHI: A well-known journalist, chief editor of daily Balochistan Times and daily Zamana Quetta, publisher, former president of APNS and CPNE and a former senator, Syed Fasih Iqbal, passed away after a brief illness on Thursday night. The funeral prayers for the departed soul will be offered after Friday prayers at Masjid-e-Bilal, Block 10, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, […]
KARACHI: Sindh Information Secretary Dr Zulfiqar Ali Shalwani on Thursday visited Nawa-i-Waqt office to express solidarity with the management and employees of Waqt News, Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation. He said he had taken a serious notice of the bomb attack on the Nawa-i-Waqt and directed all the officials to take necessary steps towards providing required […]
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) urged the government on Wednesday to promulgate an ordinance to restrict the print and electronic media from publishing or broadcasting any statement of the Taliban. The MQM coordination committee appealed to the government to provide full protection to all newspaper and electronic media offices so that journalists could continue […]
KARACHI/PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD – Like other parts of the country, journalists’ organisations on Tuesday staged protest demonstrations against the bomb attacks on Nawa-i-Waqt Group offices and other media houses in Karachi. Leaders of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists including Khurshid Abbasi, Amin Yousaf, President of Karachi Union of Journalists GM Jamali, Secretary of Karachi Union of […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Film Festival (SFF), a part of the Sindh Culture Festival currently taking place in Karachi, ended on Tuesday at the Nueplex Cinemas after running for two days. While a number of high profile members of the film fraternity and the entertainment industry visited the festival, it was the presence of veteran actor […]
KARACHI: Probably more people on Saturday turned up for book launches than for discussions at the Karachi Literature Festival. Room 007 of the Beach Luxury Hotel did not have a single moment of respite, and thankfully so. It all began with the launch of ‘Language, Gender and Power: The Politics of Representation and Hegemony in […]
Karachi: Being young and in love can leave one short of the right words that can truly express their feelings to the person their heart aches for. When that happens, many turn to the man whose words work like a love potion – the king of romantic Urdu poetry Amjad Islam Amjad. For countless lovebirds, […]
KARACHI: Sarmad Ali, President, Masood Hamid, Secretary General, All Pakistan Newspapwers Society (APNS), on behalf of the office bearers and members of the society have expressed their profound grief over the sad demise of senior colleague Arshad Majid Anami, publisher/chief editor of Daily Commercial News, Faisalabad.The APNS office bearers expressed their condolence and prayed that […]
KARACHI: Unidentified armed robbers near Saifulllah Bangash area of Nazimabad robbed three employees of Daily Times on late Monday. The incident took place 4:00am when three Daily Times’ employees namely Mohammad Ali Sammo, Islahuddin Ansari and Kamaluddin, were returning to their homes from workplace. As they reached near Saifullah Bangash, at least three armed men […]
KARACHI: It is always refreshing to see an artist discussing history and art and giving preference to the latter by hardly overshadowing the former. It results in an enriched aesthetic interpretation of life. A.Q. Arif is an artist who is in love with architecture, but to him it is the part of life that sometimes, […]
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