Shamsul Islam Naz

Sikandar Khan Kalasha A member of the Kalasha community and a student of Economics at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece January 16, 2012 Using religion as a tool to promote a political idea has seriously affected the country and gained ground for the cancer of religious fanaticism. PHOTO: FILE Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former prime [...]

By Editorial Published: January 16, 2012 Arfa will continue to be a guiding light for millions of ambitious children. PHOTO: FILE The natural tendency when someone dies too young is to mourn the potential of a life that was cruelly ended before a person could achieve anything. In the case of the 16-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa, who [...]

AN OBITUARY By: shamsul Islam Naz AN OBITUARY ISLAMABAD. Jan 14: Veteran journalist, a legend and a great hero of journalists -Minhaj Mohammad Khan Barna, died here on Friday morning in Islamabad after a prolonged illness. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) decided to observe a seven-day mourning throughout the country to condole his [...]

ISLAMABAD: The management of Daily Times has shut down its Islamabad newsroom – yet another indication that all is not well with the newspaper. Three desk staffers were terminated abruptly with plans now to have all the city pages done at the paper’s Lahore headquarters. It is not the first instance of sackings at Daily Times. In 2009, a [...]

BY: Shamsul Islam Naz Pakistan has been declared as one of the most dangerous countries for media persons in the second year in row by all the leading media organisations working for safety and cause of the journalists.   The media outlets also failed to provide insurance to employees working in hostile environments.   Apart from [...]