ISLAMABAD: Another film that was to be screened at the Foundation for Arts, Culture and Education (Face) Film Festival 2016 was banned by the censor board for being ‘anti-state’...
The festival was not allowed to screen Besieged in Quetta, a film by independent filmmaker Asef Ali Mohammad which shed light on the plight of the city’s Hazara population...
The director, producer and writer of the much-talked about Pakistani animated feature film Allahyar and the Legend of Markhor, Uzair Zaheer Khan, is determined to be a catalyst in the world of Pakistani cinema...
The film is due to launch this December, and Mr Khan believes it contains something for “all and sundry”...
NEW YORK: A film by an Israeli filmmaker was pulled from an Oslo film festival on Thursday because it dealt with Israeli subject matter, but did not address the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the sufferings inflicted by Israel...
Similarly, Agha Nasir’s memoirs Agha se Agha Nasir tak: umr kahani appeared posthumously in June 2017 and in October its second edition hit the bookstores...
It makes one nostalgic and takes one back to the 1970s when a sort of mini-fair would take place in Karachi’s Saddar area near Regal Chowk on the occasion of the release of a new title by Ibn-i-Safi...
ISLAMABAD: Agha Nasir, one of the pioneers of television in the country, died at a hospital in Islamabad on Tuesday...
Agha Nasir was a legend in television and radio broadcasting...
HYDERABAD: Speakers paid rich tributes to Agha Shahabuddin, a civil servant, educationist and author of Sindhri ja Sudka which highlighted Sindh’s sense of deprivation under the One Unit, at a programme marking his fifth death anniversary held here on Saturday evening...
They said that Agha always stood for the cause of Sindh and devoted his life to building and strengthening institutions...
Artist Lubna Agha was young, talented and prolific in the ’70s...
A diaspora artist since the ’80s she passed away in Brookline, Massachusetts, US in May 2012, leaving behind a large collection of works which is now managed by the Lubna Agha Estate...
KARACHI: Noted Sindhi fiction writer Agha Khalid Saleem passed away on Tuesday...
Popularly known as Agha Saleem, he contributed significantly to Sindhi short story, novel and drama and also composed poetry and translated Sindhi poetry into Urdu...
KARACHI: Experienced hand Khurram Hussain Agha, outsider Nadir Miraan along with two seasoned campaigners, Mohammad Sajjad and Asjad Iqbal, completed the semi-final quartet in the 42nd National Snooker Championship at the Karachi Gymkhana on Sunday...
Former Pakistan No 1 Agha, a qualifier from Sindh, proved his acumen while lowering the colours of seventh seed Shahram Changezi in the epic quarter-final that went to full distance... ...
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday announced that it will launch an investigation against Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani for allegedly holding assets beyond his means...
KARACHI: The Sindh government named the Karachi Hockey Association (KHA) Complex in Gulshan Iqbal after former Olympian Hanif Khan and incumbent KHA President Dr Syed Junaid Ali Shah...
Similarly, another KHA premises in the district Central opposite Dr Ziauddin Hospital that has been cleared of the encroachments, has been named after the 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist Abdul Waheed Khan and ex-Olympian Samiullah...
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday approved several high profile inquiries, including against Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar and former Sindh Assembly speaker Agha Siraj Durrani over various allegations of corruption...
According to a press release issued by the bureau, the inquiries were authorised by NAB’s regional board, which had met in Karachi today with NAB Karachi Director General Mohammad Altaf Bawany in the...
Former higher education minister Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani and PPP leader Agha Siraj Durrani have been elected the speakers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh assemblies, respectively, DawnNewsTV reported...
He is facing PML-N’s Jamshaid Khan nominated by the joint opposition...
An accountability court on Friday further extended the judicial remand of Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani, who will now remain in custody till the fourth week of June in connection with a case concerning his alleged ownership of assets beyond his means...
The court also issued a notice to the NAB special public prosecutor to file a reply by May 10 on an application moved by the defence counsel for Agha Siraj Durrani seeking...
Agha of the Sindh High Court will be provided an opportunity to respond to the allegations of possessing properties in the United Kingdom but not disclosing them before the authorities under the relevant laws...
It is alleged in the reference against Justice Agha that although he declared his foreign properties in 2018, he did not disclose their value...