ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued the following clarification in response to The News story titled “Supreme Court barred chairman still running Pemra, calls meeting” published on Wednesday, January 9, 2013. It is clarified that in compliance of the order of Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan dated 20-12-2012, passed in Constitution […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and cellular companies on Thursday signed a joint framework under which it was agreed that only those SIMs would be activated which are sold through registered sales channels. According to a PTA’s announcement on Thursday, the regulator and cellular operators signed a joint framework to move forward towards a […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is organising an investors’ awareness conference on Saturday, a statement said. In pursuance of the government policy directive regarding auction of 3G spectrum, the PTA plans various activities for the information of potential investors, it said. These activities included formulation of information memorandum, printing of brochures, documentary film, road shows […]
Farzana Ali Khan ISLAMABAD: Uzma Ayub, a rape victim, gave birth to a baby girl at a local hospital in Peshawar at 11:45pm on Thursday night, family sources said. Bilqees Begum, the mother of Uzma, told The News on phone that Uzma had labour pains in the evening and was rushed to hospital where she […]
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors on Wednesday condemned and expressed grief and sorrow over the killing of Mukarram Khan Atif, the journalist from Charsadda. Jamil Athar Qazi, President of the CPNE, Qazi Asad Abid, Senior Vice President, Ilyas Shakir, Secretary General, Javed Meher Shamsi, Joint Secretary and Mushtaq Ahmed Qureshi, the Finance Secretary […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists on Wednesday staged a walk out from upper and lower houses against the murder of journalist Mukarram Khan Atif of a private TV channel at Shabqadar. After the walk out, Federal Ministers of Law Maula Bakhsh Chandio, Senator Zahid Khan and MNA Aftab Sheikh had a long chat with the journalists and assured […]
The Karachi auditions for Sur ki Baazi, the upcoming singing talent-hunt show of the Geo Television Network featuring Atif Aslam and Himesh Reshammiya, ended amid much excitement and heartbreak on Wednesday. Hundreds of young boys and girls from all over the city were at a hotel in DHA. Since it was the last day of […]
KARACHI: South Asia’s greatest music competition will be held shortly in Dubai with auditions for participants continuing in Karachi and Lahore, organised under the auspices of Geo TV in Pakistan and Sahara TV, India. Today (Wednesday) is the last day for the auditions. The 10-member team from Pakistan will be led by singer Atif Aslam […]
KARACHI: Pakistani film ‘Bol’ by Shoaib Manzoor, has won the best Hindi/Urdu film award from the Lucknow-based civil society Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS). The award has been given to the topical and thought-provoking film for raising many social issues including the regressive attitude of a male-dominated society. Shoaib Manzoor earlier […]
ISLAMABAD: The annual general meeting (AGM) of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) is to be held on Saturday, January 28, 2012, a CPNE press release issued on Tuesday said. The press release said that the AGM of the CPNE would begin at 11:00am at the Avari Hotel, Lahore, wherein the relations between the […]
SUKKUR: A man shot dead his wife and her alleged paramour in Jacobabad on Tuesday. Police said that in Village Fahad Panhwar in the limits of Jacobabad accused Suleman Kaihar shot dead his wife Janul Khatoon and her alleged paramour Noorullah Abro. Later, the accused surrendered himself to police.
Karachi: Sindh Minister for Information Shazia Marri has said that Mehdi Hassan served music for 50 years and promoted Pakistan internationally, adding that the Pakistani nation was proud of the legendary singer. The provincial minister visited the ailing classical singer who is admitted at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on Monday on behalf of the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Saleem Shahzad Commission report is yet another call for action to the government, strongly recommending legislation for bringing the intelligence agencies—ISI and IB—under a legal framework as Pakistan is among a few democracies without any parliamentary oversight of such agencies. “No less important, of course, is the task of making the agencies accountable. […]
Dr Ikramul Haq “Every citizen shall have the right to have access to information in all matters of public importance subject to regulation and reasonable restrictions imposed by law.” —Article 19A of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan In his eloquent note to the detailed judgement in Constitutional Petitions 77 to 85/89 of […]
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