July 17, 2010

NA body for pursuance of wage award case

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has directed the Ministry of Information and Labour and Manpower to actively pursue the 7th Wage Board Award case, which

Easy access to information urged

By: Farehia Rehman ISLAMABAD — Realising the fact that Pakistan’s 2002 Freedom of Information Ordinance is quoted world over as an example of a bad law, participants on Friday during

Film ban

In Pakistan, governments have historically tended to use bans as a means of first resort – evidence of officialdom’s intolerance for points of view that do not conform to the

Media and militancy

Gulmina Bilal Ahmad After almost a decade of military rule, today Pakistan finds itself in a challenging transition towards democracy. Unlike previous futile transitional attempts, this transition is unique in

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