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Daily Archives: March 3, 2007

Journalists’ walk-out from Sindh PA

KARACHI, March 2: The Sindh Assembly Press gallery corps on Friday staged a token walkout to protest against the government action against daily Islam and the improper treatment of the nephew of senior journalist of APP Khushnood Ali Khan at the Aga Khan Hospital where he is under treatment. The journalists gathered in the press […]


Demo held to protest against journalist’s arrest

QUETTA, March 2: Members of the Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) staged a demonstration on Friday against the shifting of a cameraman working for a foreign channel to Guantanamo Bay and demanded his unconditional release. Activists of the BUJ assembled outside the press club and chanted slogans against the United States. Quetta Press Club president […]


CDGK to send over Rs 5.66 million relief goods to Balochistan

KARACHI (July 03 2007): The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) would soon dispatch relief goods worth over Rs 5.6678 million for the victims in Balochistan. Sources in the city government told Business Recorder here on Monday that relief goods were likely to be dispatched on Tuesday (today) to Balochistan after the approval of City Nazim […]


Media and national stability

ARTICLE (March 03 2007): In modern-age, mass media has assumed the role of guide in daily life of everybody. It is used as instrument of policy by the Governments and States. Its power, influence and impact knows no bounds. The speed of information communication is just flabbergasting. The volume of output of print and electronic […]


Officials served notices in PHPL’s contempt plea: Licence for TV channel

KARACHI, March 2: The Sindh High Court issued notices to two officers of the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday in a contempt application moved by the Pakistan Herald Publications Limited in its petition for grant of licence/uplinking facility for its television channel. The petitioner company submitted through […]


Vani challengers facing death threat

ISLAMABAD, March 3: Fathers of two small Baloch girls who were saved in January by the Supreme Court from being sacrificed to the custom of Vani alleged here on Saturday that a former Balochistan minister arrested in the case was threatening them with death. Eisa Khan and Meero, the two fathers from Barkhan, charged at […]


Moot seeks joint strategy to check violation of child rights

HYDERABAD: Participants of a media consultation on “The state of child rights in Sindh” on Friday demanded of the political parties and the government to prepare a joint strategy to address violations of child rights in the province. The meeting observed an alarming increase in violations of child rights, adding that particularly traditional violence against […]