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LAHORE STAFF REPORT
Caretaker Punjab Health Minister Dr Javed Akram has said that the doctor community should play its role for improving the health sector. He was addressing the two-day 8th International Family Doctors Conference 2023 as the special guest at a local hotel, here on Saturday. He congratulated the administration for organising the conference on an important topic and prayed to Allah for positive outcome of the confer- ence. He said that there was an opportunity to learn a lot from medical experts during the conference.
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The minister said that general practitioners were backbone of the health system. He said that in the past, primary angioplasty had been only available to the elite earlier, but now Alhamdulillah, this facility was available to patients in all cardiology hospitals of the province and so far 5,000 patients had been facilitated.
He said that public hospitals built at the cost of billions of rupees would be made beneficial for the common man.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘South Asian Filmscapes — Transregional Encounters’
SYED AFSAR SAJID
South Asian Filmscapes
Syed Afsar Sajid
Title: ‘South Asian Filmscapes — Transregional Encounters’
Published by: Oxford University Press, Karachi
Edited by: Elora Halim Chowdhury — Esha Niyogi De
Pages: 302 — Price: Rs.1295/- the Lahore High Court, the LDA teams took decisive action, executing the operation to restore the property to its rightful status,” he said.
The book being reviewed here is the maiden publication by SARMSNet (the South Asian Regional Media Scholars Network), an alliance set up by Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De, co-editors of this volume. The former is professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University Of Massachusetts Boston (US), while the latter is a lecturer in English at UCLA (the University of California, US). It aims at ‘exploring cross-communal filmic-histories’ in reference to a bordered subcontinent.
As an anthology of essays, the book is intended to explore the diverse and dynamic film industries as well as film cultures of South Asia including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in detail while those of Sri Lanka and Nepal, in passing. It examines the socio-cultural and political contexts that shape and regulate the production, distribution, and consumption of films in the region.
The book comprises three parts, each containing five, six, and four essays respectively. Essays in Part I (titled ‘Nations and Regional Margins’) relate to independent film making in the context of national identity in Bangladesh (Hamidul Haq); a critique of two Pakistani films ’Saheli’ (1960), co-produced and directed by S.M. Yusuf, and ‘Neela Parbat’ (1969), produced and directed by Ahmad Bashir, within the framework of female friendship and forbidden desire (Kamran Asdar Ali); bringing back Sikhs into the mainstream of Indian cinema after the 1984 pogrom within the purview of the politics of picturization in Hindi cinema (Amit Ranjan); film making in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and issues concerning the indigenous cinema’s challenge.
The spokesperson further informed that the LDA teams also targeted 14 shops located in close proximity to the Walton Road Packages Mall.
“These shops had fallen into the hands of unauthorized occupants who had illegally seized the premises. By reclaiming and subsequently selling the shops, the LDA regained control over the properties, effectively ending the unlawful occupation. The seized shops had been a subject of prolonged illegal occupancy, causing significant financial losses and hindering lawful business activities. The operation carried out by the LDA aimed to curtail such illicit practices and enforce the rule of law,” he added.
Indian troops shot dead shepherd at LoC
MIRPUR (AJK) STAFF REPORT
Indian troops Saturday gunned down a grazer resident of forward village Lanjot, in tehsil Nakial in Kotli district of Azad Jammu Kashmir when he was feeding his cattle heads at the area close to this side of the Line of Control (LoC) in Nikayal sector.
According to details gathered by APP here Saturday, a local 32-year-old lad identified as Tarif s/o Muhammad Alam Mistri was found missing on May 19, 2023 –Friday as he had reportedly gone, the same day at about 0900 hours in the morning to the jungle to graze his goats besides wood cutting but he didn't return to his house. On Saturday, May 20, Indian troops deployed at the LoC, shot dead the grazer at the other side of the LoC in Maindher region of Indian-occupied Jammu Kashmir State. Tarruf was found missing after reportedly inadvertently crossing the thick jungles-clad forward area at the LoC while grazing his cattle heads. The victims left a widow and a 5-months old daughter, besides 07 siblings including 05 brothers and 02 sisters besides a father and a mother in his survivors.
