Drap chief removed over fake PhD degree
The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Thursday removed the head of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap). `Dr Sheikh Akhtar Hussain was appointed as the chief executive officer…
The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Thursday removed the head of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap). `Dr Sheikh Akhtar Hussain was appointed as the chief executive officer…
America’s septuagenarian president, Donald Trump, in his New Year tweet scolded Pakistan for only offering ‘lies and deceit’ in return for aid money, that he put at a staggering $33…
Political communication has a new tool. The new tool is: fake news. The medium: conventional as well as the social media. The users of this new tool are: the government,…
These days, ‘fake news’ is regularly evoked against inconvenient reporting not just by the usual authoritarian suspects, such as in Russia, Syria and Venezuela, but also by governments in relatively…
It’s now almost a decade since the last fiscal crisis, launching what was dubbed the ‘Great Recession’. It wreaked havoc on the US banking system and the housing market, leaving…
Since US President Donald Trump weaponised the term "fake news" during the 2016 presidential election campaign, the phrase has gone viral. Increasingly it is used by politicians around the world…
THE crisis afflicting Pakistan’s mainstream print and electronic media sphere is escalating. Apart from a series of high-profile resignations and sackings, there are also reports of several print publications cutting…
While the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has admitted in the Peshawar High Court that it has inadvertently verified degree of the Lahore NAB DG, Saleem Shahzad, the FIA has probed…
Former executive director of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr Arshad Ali, who resigned last month, has claimed that he is a victim of fake degree mafia and his resignation…
For a stable democratic society, the importance of a free and fair election cannot be denied. The credit for raising political awareness among people after a long struggle goes to…