Regional dailies : A world where print lives another day
In districts like Qambar, Larkana newsies continue to sell out and close shop by noon in the digital age
KARACHI:
For print-media, the growth of the internet has been akin to a slow-driving nail in the coffin of an industry, which once sat at the helm of many revolutions.
Today, as print publications slowly disappear from the public eye, it’s more common to stumble upon newspapers soaking oil from meals served at fast-food outlets than to see them being read.
However, where most national publications have had a hard time surviving the fall of print, regional language newspapers have met a different fate altogether. The deeper one traverses across Sindh, more alive the lost medium begins to appear.
Defiant PPP says it is vacating all positions in PDM, demands apology
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PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari speaks during a news conference. Photo: Geo News screengrab
KARACHI: PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday announced that the party s Central Executive Committee (CEC) has called upon its members to resign from all positions of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).
Flanked by party leaders, Bilawal held a news conference to speak about the matters that came under discussion during the recently-held Central Executive Committee meeting of the party.
He said the CEC had come to the conclusion that resignations from the national and provincial assemblies should be like an atom bomb .
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