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News: Pakistan blocks YouTube |
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  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing "blasphemous" content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said Sunday.
An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube because it contained "blasphemous content, videos and documents," a government official told Agence France-Presse. "The site will remain blocked till further orders."
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) told the country's 70 Internet service providers Friday that the popular website would be blocked until further notice, the Associated Press reports.
The authority did not specify what the offensive material was, but a PTA official said the ban concerned a movie trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has said he plans to release an anti-Koran movie portraying the religion as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.
The PTA official, who asked not to be identified because he was not an official spokesman, said the PTA also blocks web sites that show controversial drawings of the prophet Muhammad.
Some 12 cartoons published in September 2005 by the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper sparked riots in the Islamic world.
In the latest in a series of demonstrations over the cartoons in Pakistan, hundreds of hard-line Islamists in the southern city of Karachi torched effigies of the Danish prime minister and the cartoonist on Sunday, witnesses said.
"It is a deliberate attempt to malign Islam and hurt the feelings of Muslims," Habib Shah Kerani told the protesters from the Anjman-e-Islam (Organiazation of Islam) group.
Reporters Without Borders, a press advocacy organization, released a statement Saturday, saying, "It should not be up to the PTA to order this kind of blocking. Such a decision should be taken by the courts, not by a body that is under the government's control."
Pakistan's regional daily, The News, reported, "people wondered whether the youtube.com blackout was connected to some other videos that had been uploaded to the site on Thursday. These videos implicated a certain political party in 'election rigging' and showed party activists stamping ballot papers en masse."
Pakistan is not the only country to have blocked access to YouTube.
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News: first ever Pakistani film in India |
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|  Indian theatres are all set to give a wholehearted welcome to the Pakistani film, Khuda Ke Liye on March 28, which also happens to be the first ever Pakistani film to be released in India. The film produced and directed by Shoaib Mansoor has Pakistani stars Shaan and Imaan Ali in the lead roles. The film also stars Naseerudin Shah in a very pivotal role.
The film showcases the complex conditions of Pakistanis post 9/11. It highlights the cruel fact of West immensely suspicious about Muslims where they themselves are split between fundamentalists and Liberals.
Naseerudin Shah playing a role of clergy claims that the film is a must watch for the masses and has been appreciated after being shown in Pakistan, London and Dubai. The film also had its screening in Goa film festival.
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News: Qavi gets more popularity for serious roles |
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Born 13 November, 1947 in Peshawar, popularly known as Qavi Khan took his initial education at the capital city of NWFP and appeared in Radio Pakistan's programs for children, from the tender age of 10 and appeared in school and college stage plays regularly.
 Qavi is attributed as the first TV artiste of Pakistan TV. He appeared in lead with Munawwar Taufiq in PTV Lahore's first ever play "Nazrana" which was telecast on 26 Nov-1964 from Lahore Centre on its commissioning and the dawn of a new era in showbiz in Pakistan. Soon, Qavi was everywhere. He got his first break in a Lahore movie "Riwaj" in 1966. His first series on TV was "Lakhon Mein Teen (03)" for PTV-Lahore. Though this was a comedy serial but Qavi on the other hand, became more popular for his serious and sober roles and booked a permanent place in the minds of producers and directors for such roles, thus also finally getting out of the clutches of his playing second fiddle act of buffoonery to film heroes in many movies of Lollywood.
His acting exhibited a close reality to the characters he portrayed. Ashfaq Ahmed and Bano Qudsia are his mentors, in a memorable serial plays; Dukhoun Ki Chaddar (a soldier's role well enacted) Andhera Ujala (a policemen's role superbly done) Kashkol,
Sahil, Bazuaid Shikayatein-Hikayatein, MehakChattan Perr Ghonslaa Lalacch Ki Kahani Aik Hasrat-e-Taameer Teesra Raasta 1972 and a long play in Jashn-e-Tamseel diected by Yawar Hayat). Qavi has also produced over a dozen Urdu and Punjabi movies.
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News: Muammar Rana refuses Indian offer |
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| LAHORE: Muammar Rana has refused to play secondary roles in Indian films.
 According to details, Ashoo Toosh Ghosh, an Indian director offered Muammar Rana a role in his new movie but Muammar Rana refused. He said that he played the lead in Pakistani movies. He was willing to work in Indian movies if he was offered the lead role. The same director has also signed him as the hero against Manisha Koiralla in a film.
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News: Humayun Saeed starts new project |
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| LAHORE: Famous actor Humayun Saeed has started working on his own film project.
 According to details he is preparing to make an international standard film. The project is in initial stages. Talking to The Post Humayun Saeed said he was not in a rush to complete the film. He was making a slow progress in order to avoid mistakes.
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