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  ( Editor’s Note: Recently Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has announced to establish Pakistan Media Development Authority (PDMA) as reported by press according to which The federal cabinet is set to take up and approve on Tuesday (today) the draft bill for establishment of the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA), sources in the government told  Dawn . The controversial bill has been strongly opposed by the owners of media houses and workers, but the information ministry has repeatedly expressed its resolve to establish the new authority. The Digital Media Wing of the Ministry of Information on Monday issued a video footage of Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry with digital broadcasters, including YouTubers, where he said that declaration of around 50 percent of the newspapers in country would soon be cancelled. In this regards WiseSindh is reproducing an article of Late Prof. Dr. Allah Rakhio Butt, this article historical persp...

  The well-known publishing house of the upper Sindh, the Mehran Academy in Shikarpur has revived the old tradition of the historic town. So far that important organization has been able to boast nearly 300 books on a wide variety of subjects including Islam, history and literature. The promoters of the Sindhi language and literature have taken yet another most rewarding step. In the memoriam of Centenary celebrations of the distinguished writer, journalist and intellectual Muhammad Usman Diplai (1980-1981), the Academy with a single stroke, has issued reprints of nine earlier books of the author‟s literary career.   The reprints under reference distinctly fall into two categories: five novels and four Islamic biographies of high merit. The author Muhammad Usman Diplai hailed from a poor family of Memon community of Diplo, a small village in Thar, hence „Diplai‟ now a generic name for that community.   For Diplai, writing was a mania from his childhood. Gifted with sh...

                     (Title Cover of Ngugi's Novella translated into Sindhi by Akhtar Hafeez) ‘Ngugi’s novella “Weep Not Child” reminded me of present day Sindh, especially how our land is being snatched from us,’ renowned Sindhi novelist, journalist and translator Akhtar Hafeez expressed his views regarding his latest translated book “Weep Not Child” into Sindhi language, while talking to ‘ WiseSindh’ here on Monday. He said that he started reading renowned African novelist Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s that novella, when the indigenous Sindhis were struggling to protect their land from the land mafia of ‘Bahiria Town’, which was engaged in land grabbing in district Jamshoro so that they could complete their illegal project, they had grabbed thousands of acres of land which belonged to local Sindhis. Mr. Akhtar said that “Weep Not Child” touched his heart and he decided to translate it in Sindhi language as soon as he finished reading i...