Pager explosions in Labnon on September 17, 2024, have revived my memories of Pager service in Pakistan in the early 1990s when I was a budding journalist at the Karachi Bureau of the the national news agency, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP). In the early 1990s, Pakistan was just beginning to see the rise of
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By Shujauddin Qureshi Paramilitary force Rangers raided Karachi Press Club premises on July 27, 2020, apparently for security reasons. But KPC Covering Body in a press release after its urgent meeting condemned the raid without any intimidation to the management of the club. Even though there might have been a threat alert in the Red
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الياس ٿري عبدالله کوسو-امراڻي جا نوجوان ھن کي جپسي ۽ رولاڪ سڏي سگھن ٿا سندس ھٿ جي ريکائن ۾ بادشاھت لکيل آھي عبدالله کوسويا نه پر فقيري سندس انگ انگ ۾ رچيل آھي ۽ نيڻن جي صحرا ۾ ھرڻي جون ڇالون پياسي بدن تي مور جي ٽھوڪي جيان ڀاسنديون آھن۔ عمرڪوٽ شھر جي وچ واري
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By Shujauddin Qureshi It was a shock for me when I read a post by my friend Afia Salam on Facebook this morning about the closure of the monthly news magazine Newsline. She quoted the editor of the magazine, Rehana Hakeem, saying, “Just to let all the wonderful and supportive people who were part of
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