by Touqir Hussain Tin Dawn, November 7th, 2023he writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor Georgetown University and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore.PAKISTAN and Afghanistan have always had a complex relationship that has been mishandled by both sides. Each has expected the other to make up for the failure of its own policies, has sought solutions that were worse than the problem, and has become friendly with the other’s enemies. Pakistan needs…
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report in The Express Tribune, Jan 16, 2023Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque on Friday said that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked 6,418 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) involved in spreading fake news. In a written reply to the question of Senator Bahramand Khan Tangi, he said that the URLs had been blocked following the complaints lodged by stakeholders, including organisations, general public and proactive search pertaining to spreading of fake…
by Zafar Mirza in Dawn, January 13th, 2023by The writer is a former SAPM on health, professor of health systems at Shifa Tameer-i-Millat University and WHO adviser on UHC.PAKISTAN now has not only the fifth largest population in the world but it also bears a very heavy burden of disease. Also, negative determinants of health or risks to health abound and are on the rise. The combined effect of these three factors is harrowing. At…
by Salman Khan in Dawn, Oct 24, 2022LAHORE: Award-winning journalist and columnist Hamid Mir said on Sunday the media in Pakistan continued to face oppression in one form or another. “The government has changed but the situation (state of media) remains the same,” he emphatically said at a session — Media under Siege in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan — on the last day of the 4th Asma Jahangir Conference 2022 at a local hotel.…
Report in Dawn, October 8th, 2022KARACHI: Short-form video platform TikTok has released its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for the April-June quarter, “building on its commitment to a multi-pronged approach to stop misinformation on the platform”. In the second quarter of 2022, 113,809,300 videos were removed globally, which represents about 1 per cent of all videos uploaded to TikTok. Pakistan, with 15,351,388 videos removed for violating Community Guidelines, ranked second in the world for the…
Report in Dawn, September 2nd, 2022ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) ordered the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday to immediately restore the transmission of ARY News, if no authority has issued instructions to keep the network off air. Chief Justice Athar Minallah also ordered Pemra chairman Saleem Baig to ask an official to appear before the court on Friday (today) and explain why the ARY channel’s transmission was not being restored. The…
“PROMPT and drastic measures are necessary to save Pakistan from virtual bankruptcy; but our rulers seem to be content with obtaining foreign gifts to feed the people and relying on heavier doses of foreign aid for maintaining some semblance of continued economic development.” These words could have been written yesterday. But they weren’t. They appear in a Pakistan Times editorial marking the 11th anniversary of independence in 1958. And there are other laments in the…
PESHAWAR: Three militants were killed and four others, including a `commander’, were arrested in two intelligence-based operations conducted by security forces in North Waziristan tribal district on Saturday, the military’s media affairs wing said. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations, in the first operation the high-value militant commander was apprehended in injured condition along with three other militants. In the second operation, three militants were killed. Weapons, ammunition and improvised explosive…
China and India should stick to their own development paths and join hands to safeguard peace and stability both in the region and the world, putting their differences over the border issues at a proper position in the bilateral relations, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Friday. Putting their differences over the border issues “at a proper position” in the bilateral…
The meeting between State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in New Delhi on Friday is seen as a rare window of opportunity for the two sides to put bilateral relations back on track. Since the Donglang (Doklam) standoff in 2017, which damaged the mutual trust between China and India that had been accumulated through bilateral interactions since 1998, and the Galwan Valley clash in 2020, which ruined…
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday that Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited India. Indian media reported that Wang met with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. This is the highest-level visit by a Chinese official to India in two years after the outbreak of the border conflict. It is generally noticed that the visit took place against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.…