 | | Qatari women set to launch fashion magazine |
 MAKING
a foray into the fashion and lifestyle world, three young Qatari
women have joined hands to launch an English magazine from Doha.
Named HauteMuse, the magazine will be published quarterly. Talking
to Qatar Tribune, Fatma Hamad al Thani and Noor Rashid al Thani,
both owners of the magazine, said that each issue would be theme-based
with an innovative layout. "We will... |
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|  |  | | UK Monarchy: How Relevant? |
 AMID
the flag-waving and the street parties to celebrate the marriage
of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday, bigger questions
about the relevance of the monarchy to modern Britain lurk like
uninvited guests. Extravagant living in a time of austerity
abrades public sensibilities; unearned privilege is resented,
while snobbery and elitism are seen as dangerously outmoded.
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| |  | | THE PRICE OF
DELUSION |
| COL Moamar Qadhafi is a vain man. Like
the other Arab dinosaurs he has his dyed hair, his designer
shades, his spoiled children and his compound full of sycophants.
He doesn´t want, one day, to be dragged from a rat hole
like Saddam Hussein or hauled from a bunker like the Ivory Coast´s
Laurent Gbagbo. So what´s his calculation? Does he have
one at all? Here in liberated eastern Libya, where the tricolour
Qadhafi banished now flies... |
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Govt plans electronic media directorate
AGENCIES
LAHORE FEDERAL Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that Electronic Media Directorate (EMD) would be established to facilitate growth of the electronic media in the country.
Addressing the APNS Regional Press Convention-2011 here on Saturday, she said that EMD would also sort matters pertaining to issues of government advertisements to electronic media while the Press Information Department (PID) would look into affairs of print media.
With the emergence of electronic media in Pakistan, the PID ad qouta for print media has now been divided as a major share goes to TV channels, she said, adding that the government would evolve a mechanism to ensur parity in the distribution of ads to the print and electronic media.
The information minister said the government was fully aware of problems of workers of the newspaper industry, for which effective steps were being taken to ameliorate their lot.
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