Former French culture minister picked to head UNESCO
- 14-Oct-2017
PARIS: French former culture minister Audrey Azoulay was named to head the UN’s embattled cultural agency on Friday, beating her Qatari rival after a politically charged contest clouded by Gulf tensions and accusations of anti-Israel bias. Azoulay, 45, came from behind to defeat Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, also a former culture minister, after he failed […]
Website on Mohenjo Daro to be launched next month
- 24-Jan-2017
KARACHI: Mohen jo Daro will become the country’s first archaeological site to have its own website, Sindh Culture Minister Syed Sardar Shah said. While presiding over a meeting of the executive board of the National Fund for Moenjodaro (NFM) at his office, the minister said the website was in its final stages and would be […]