KARACHI, Nov 7: Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil inaugurated two newly renovated libraries in Landhi Town on Wednesday. The project cost around Rs2.8 million. Landhi Town Nazim Syed Asif Husnain said development projects worth Rs190 million were underway in the town. He said the town administration would develop 13 more libraries on modern lines. Ms Jalil […]
SUKKUR: Sukkur-based journalists belonging to the electronic and print media have demanded immediate withdrawal of emergency rule in the interest of Pakistan and its people through a resolution here on Wednesday. In a meeting held at Sukkur press club, chaired by president Khawaja Jawed Ahmed, the journalists criticised the role of political parties of the […]
KARACHI, Nov 7: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has urged the government to immediately suspend implementation of recent amendments to press laws and all actions taken under them, including notices issued to publications. According to a press release, an emergency meeting of the executive committee of the APNS authorised its president to form an action […]
LAHORE: South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) Secretary General Imtiaz Alam, has announced that SAFMA national chapters in South Asia will express their solidarity with the Pakistani media community on November 15 and 20 by delivering letters of protest and staging demonstrations. He was addressing a press conference today at the South Asia Media Centre […]
MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 7: Although the state of emergency in Pakistan does not cover Azad Kashmir, cable operators in the region have been directed to suspend transmission of all national and international news channels, except the PTV and Indian channels. An official source told Dawn that the cable operators had been asked on Wednesday to stick […]
KARACHI – Shutting down of private TV channels in the aftermath of the proclamation of emergency has caused great revenue losses to the electronic media, The Nation has learnt. Their revenues are falling sharply and if the ban on transmission of private channels is not lifted early, their losses would reach to alarming proportion and […]
KARACHI, Nov 7: Electronics dealers selling satellite dishes and decoders appeared to be the latest targets of administrative action as police on Wednesday forced traders in Saddar to shut down their businesses after sales of satellite dishes shot up following the government’s ban on private news channels. Electronics market traders confirmed the police action as […]
Karachi, Nov 7 PPI: Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) in emergency meeting of its Founding Members on Tuesday expressed grave concern at “unprecedented situation that its members are facing.” The step of forcing cable operators to off air all news channels except for state broadcaster is not in consonance with norms of natural justice and human […]
KARACHI, Nov 7: Most cable operators in the city have been facing great hardship in collecting the monthly subscription for their service as subscribers, perturbed over the blackout of news channels since the imposition of an emergency across the country on Saturday last, are reluctant to oblige them. A survey conducted by Dawn revealed that […]
ISLAMABAD: Media owners and journalist organisations throughout the country Wednesday condemned amendments to the press laws, threats to Chief Executive Jang Group Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and the unprecedented situation media houses are facing. They particularly expressed solidarity with the Jang Group. All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), […]
KARACHI (PPI) – Since the imposition of state of emergency, suspending the constitution and black out of the media on November 3, the government has launched a massive operation to detain virtually anyone deemed a threat to military authority, making plain its real plans for the immediate future, the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission […]
ISLAMABAD: President of Muslim League Chaudhary Shjaat Hussain on Wednesday claimed that the media had failed to play its impartial role following the government’s concessions. ‘We observed that some media channels were busy in promoting,, confusion and uncertainty in the society,” he said, adding sensitive scenes were being shown to audiences by private, television channels. […]
KARACHI, Nov 7: Dawn’s staff reporter Faiza Ilyas has won the Pakistan Press Foundation’s “Gender in Journalism Award 2007” in the category of “most gender sensitive reporting”. Supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the award was conferred by former Sindh High Court judge Majida Rizvi on Tuesday. The article which […]
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