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Daily Archives: November 9, 2007

Urdu Newsletter Nov 02 To Nov 09, 2007

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Government to resolve media-related issues through talks: Durrani

ISLAMABAD (November 09 2007): Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani on Thursday said the government would resolve all issues pertaining to the media through dialogue, taking onboard the working journalists organisations on future developments. Talking to a delegation of working journalists’ organisations, the minister reiterated the government’s resolve that the media freedom […]


‘Censorship has never worked’ — Aslam Azhar

KARACHI, Nov 8: Aslam Azhar is something of a man for all seasons. Though he read law at Cambridge and dabbled in writing, radio broadcasting and documentary film-making, he is perhaps best known for his role in guiding Pakistan Television from a pilot set-up in Lahore in 1964 all the way to 1991, when he […]


VOA expands Urdu new broadcasts to Pakistan

WASHINGTON: The Voice of America (VOA)’s Urdu Service has expanded its radio news broadcasts from five to 12.5 hours daily in response to the crisis in Pakistan and because of the blackout of private television networks by the government, which has increased radio listening dramatically. “The Pakistani government has shut down all independent media inside […]


Indian channels capture business after emergency

LAHORE (PPI) – The advertising business of private channels in Pakistan has diverted to India after imposition of a ban on them in the country under emergency rules. Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) banned the transmission on news and current affairs channels in the country after promulgation of emergency and taking advantage of this […]


Taliban threaten Mir Shakil, Jang Group

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS), the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) have all condemned the intimidation and threats directed against Mir Shakilur Rehman, owner and chief executive of Jang Group, the country’s largest media group. Rehman is the chairman of the PBA and former president of […]


Out of touch with reality

The government and its media advisers do not seem to understand that the old tricks of denying the people access to information do not work anymore. If anything, they make the outmoded chicanery the object of public ridicule and loathing. Following Saturday’s proclamation of ’emergency,’ the government ordered the cable operators to block all private […]


Gagging the media

THE imposition of the state of Emergency was a wrong card the government played at a critical juncture in the country’s political life. And gagging the media by introducing amendments to the Press and Publications Ordinance and PEMRA Ordinance as an offshoot of the Emergency was, undoubtedly, the worst one. By all counts, it is […]


Assault on media

It’s the fifth day of the emergency, and the situation regarding the media was never as grim as it is today. In the days of Ziaul Haq and Ayub Khan and others, media offices were not threatened with bombings, and owners of media groups didn’t receive warnings of assassination. Among the many controversial assertions he […]


Civil society groups, leftists slam emergency

KARACHI, Nov 8: Representatives of leftist, progressive and democratic parties and groups, the lawyers’ community, professional bodies and trade unions, writers and human rights activists have strongly condemned the imposition of a state of emergency, the promulgation of the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and the suspension of fundamental human rights. This has been spelt out […]


Industries to carry anti-child labor messages

ISLAMABAD (APP) – Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education Zobaida Jalal has asked all those industries engaged in supply of consumer goods to carry anti-child labour messages on their products in order to eliminate this menace once for all. “All those industries engaged in supply of consumer goods of daily use such as detergents, […]


HRCP slams abridgement of civil liberties

ISLAMABAD (November 09 2007): Syed Iqbal Haider, secretary general, Pakistan Human Rights Commission, has strongly protested abridgement of civil liberties in the country and also dubbed the PCO as martial law introduced under the garb of emergency. Speaking to the media at the local office of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in F 6/1 sector, […]


Blast at Swabi girls’ school

SWABI: A bomb explosion wrecked the entrance gate of Government Girls’ High School Ismalia here on Thursday, sending a warning to all girls and teachers to cover up for purdah. It was learnt that only a watchman was present at the school at the time of the blast. Police officials said the isolated location of […]


Musharraf announces polls by Feb 15

ISLAMABAD: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday announced that the general elections would be held by Feb 15 and said he would doff his uniform as soon as the Supreme Court took a decision about the notification of the results of Oct 6 presidential election. Reiterating his “total commitment” to hold the general elections and […]