KARACHI: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Friday destroyed around 800 shisha or glass hookahs, equipment and tobacco confiscated by their vigilance teams during various raids over the past two weeks on shisha parlours and bars in a bid to cleanse the area of this health hazard...
The rows of sparkling green and silver, blue and silver, yellow and silver, and black and silver shisha hookahs at Defence Authority Country and Golf...
The Russian Football Union (RFU) is warning players against drinking “exotic tea” or smoking shisha pipes as it tries to avoid any doping cases ahead of its home World Cup...
The RFU also advises players “not to consume exotic tea,” to avoid smoking shisha, and to be wary of possibly contaminated meat from China or South America...
HANAU: A shooter with suspected far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a cafe in the German city of Hanau, police said on Thursday, before apparently killing himself and his mother...
The rampage started at around 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Wednesday at a shisha bar in the Heumarkt area of central Hanau, a city some 20 kilometres east of Frankfurt...
HYDERABAD: Well-known BBC Urdu Service broadcaster Raza Ali Abidi believes that expansion of electronic media in Pakistan has created confusion in society because it does not run in an organised manner...
He said the media usually facilitated opinion-building but this was tragically not the case in Pakistan...
HYDERABAD: Federal Investigation Agency’s director general Dr Sanaullah Abbasi has stressed the need for amendments to Pakistan Electronic Crime Act and said that criminals have made cyber space unsafe and increased cyber crime...
The Pakistan Electronic Crime Act was a new law, which needed amendments, he said...
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad has indicated that electronic voting machines (EVMs) and biometric verification machines will not be used in the 2018 general elections...
Answering a question about rumours taking rounds on social media that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) won from all polling stations where the biometric machines were used, Mr Aziz said it was not correct... ...
Alibaba launched an electronic trading hub in Malaysia on Friday aimed at helping small- and medium-sized businesses, a first for the Chinese internet giant outside its home country...
QUETTA: The Balochistan-Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan (iPOP) and a coalition of digital rights organisations, technology companies and IT security experts have urged the government to review the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill, 2015, which has been adopted by the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on IT and Telecom...
”Take a look: Electronic Crimes Bill 2015: Big brother (and his brothers) are watching youHe urged the...
RAWALPINDI: A fire that broke out in an electronics market on DAV College Road not only damaged electronic goods but sent a plume of smoke over the area on Friday, eyewitnesses said...
He said that paper godown was established on the first floor of the building and on the ground floor electronic shop was established...
Senators on Wednesday invited renewed scrutiny of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016, calling it "dangerous" and a "black law"...
"He also criticised the interior ministry's blanket order against 'those posting against the Army or against Pakistan's national interests'...
ISLAMABAD: The government and Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) have agreed on a broad code of conduct for electronic media but differences on at least three critical issues still need to be ironed out...
The code will be announced through a statutory regulatory order (SRO) by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) if the two sides succeed in resolving the issues...
And there’s no argument that the coming of age of the digital world and, in particular, the use of the internet and information technology in problematic fashions, has become a challenge that Pakistan must contend with promptly...
On all these counts, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill, which is nearing the final stages of evaluation and approval by the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology and...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has taken a major step towards acquiring the facility of biometric thumb impression and electronic voting...
Law Minister Zahid Hamid informed a sub-committee of Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms on Wednesday that the ECP had finalised five of the 11 bids for electronic voting machines (EVMs) and two of the five bids for biometric machines...
Given the context in which it has come, it is a case of better late than never: following the directives of the Supreme Court, on Thursday the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and Heritage issued the Electronic Media (Programmes and Advertisements) Code of Conduct, 2015...
Yet despite the formulation of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Rules 2009, it has felt as though media organisations and their employees...
ISLAMABAD: Dr Arif Alvi, convener of a parliamentary sub-committee on electoral reforms, has said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has been asked to release advertisements inviting tenders for purchase of electronic voting machines (EVMs)...
Dr Alvi, an MNA from the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), said the 400 EVMs would be used during by-elections under a pilot programme to see the results...