NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 16: Journalists staged a protest demonstration here on Friday at the press club and observed token hunger strike against restrictions on media and imposition of emergency. The journalists later observed token hunger strike for three hours in courtyard of the press club. Journalists took out rallies in Mehar and Sehwan towns on […]
MULTAN (November 17 2007): Caretaker Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro should lift ban from all private television channels as a gesture of goodwill and he should also lift emergency and restrictions on the media, said the protesting journalists here on Friday. Journalists’ protest against imposition of emergency and restrictions on the media entered its 8th […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Union of Journalists (KHUJ) demanded on Friday that the government lift the emergency, withdraw curbs on the media and reinstate the judges. The KHUJ demands came at its general body meeting held on Friday at the Peshawar Press Club. KHUJ President Jan Afzal and Peshawar Press Club President Muhammad Riaz briefed the […]
ISLAMABAD: International Federation of Journalists’ (IFJ) fact-finding mission, headed by Christopher Warren, is due on November 19. The IFJ mission is arriving in Pakistan to express solidarity with Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and to collect information about media curbs, harassment of media persons and blackout of TV channels after the imposition of emergency […]
As cell phone service providing companies have launched credit-sharing for customers there has been a spread of spam messages and calls inviting them to type in a specific message such as 10092300123456740 to have their balance doubled. They also promise cash prizes. Customers have lost their balance by responding to such messages, said Omar Manzur, […]
In 1971, when (late) General Yahya Khan ruled the country and it was next to impossible to write anything against the government in print media, political activists would rely on graffiti and cyclostyled pamphlets to expose the atrocities of the ruling elite. Obviously, the scope of cyclostyled pamphlets was limited and they would hardly be […]
MULTAN (November 17 2007): Caretaker Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro should lift ban from all private television channels as a gesture of goodwill and he should also lift emergency and restrictions on the media, said the protesting journalists here on Friday. Journalists’ protest against imposition of emergency and restrictions on the media entered its 8th […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Union of Journalists (KHUJ) demanded on Friday that the government lift the emergency, withdraw curbs on the media and reinstate the judges. The KHUJ demands came at its general body meeting held on Friday at the Peshawar Press Club. KHUJ President Jan Afzal and Peshawar Press Club President Muhammad Riaz briefed the […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 16: Journalists staged a protest demonstration here on Friday at the press club and observed token hunger strike against restrictions on media and imposition of emergency. The journalists later observed token hunger strike for three hours in courtyard of the press club. Journalists took out rallies in Mehar and Sehwan towns on […]
Sindh High Court has asked the deputy attorney general as to why the transmission of Geo TV channels is not being restored while all such other channels have been allowed to air their transmission. The court was hearing two identical petitions filed by Independent Media Corporation and Bird (Pvt)Ltd against the ban on transmission of […]
Calling the ban on Geo an action against the freedom of expression of all Pakistanis, Sindh’s nationalist parties have presented their tribute to the Geo management who refused to bow before censorship. Ghinwa Bhutto, Chairperson Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto), said that the action of the government against the media was a repetition of its […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists on Friday staged a protest demonstration against the imposition of emergency and restrictions on media at Aabpara. Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) organised the event. Numerous social workers and students also joined the protest. Ansar Burney, a minister in the caretaker setup, and Senator Illyas Bilour attended the protest. The participants held placards […]
KARACHI: Television channels were banned from beaming into Pakistan as they were involved in a tirade against the armed forces of Pakistan and were jeopardizing national interests and assets while sitting in Dubai, submitted Deputy Attorney General Rizwan Ahmed Siddiqui before a division bench of the Sindh High Court Friday. Appearing for the federal government […]
* TV journalist says govt pressuring channel to fire some journalists * Foreign TV executives and editors back censored Pakistani TV PESHAWAR: International media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has slammed the government for making self-censorship a criterion to lift a ban on private TV news channels that will drop talk-show programmes critical of President […]
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