Foreign diplomatic missions and envoys based in Karachi have expressed grave concern over the restrictions imposed on the media by the government, especially over the closure of Geo Television Network, and called on authorities to immediately lift these curbs. A South Korean diplomat based in Karachi said that he could not comment on the issue […]
MANSEHRA, Nov 21: The TV Journalists Association of Mansehra has urged the government to lift curbs on the media and restore transmission of private television channels. A meeting of the association was held on Wednesday to mark the World Television Day. The participants criticised the government for imposing curbs on the media and shutting down […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 21: The Khyber Union of Journalists on Wednesday condemned the ‘police attack’ on the Karachi Press Club, detention of journalists and their implication in bogus cases. Expressing solidarity with Karachi journalists, KhUJ members took out a procession from the Peshawar Press Club and after marching on the Sher Shah Suri Road, staged a […]
LAHORE – The ban on TV channels and the curbs put by government on freedom of expression should be immediately lifted. Democracy is must for progress and development of any country and the democracy is not possible without freedom of press. President International Federation of Journalists Kanak Dixit and President Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists […]
SLAMABAD – Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists continued their protest against curbs on media, as hundreds of media persons staged a protest demonstration in front of the Press Club. Noted journalists and civil society representatives, while wearing black bands and hoisting black flags, chanted full-throat slogans for the press […]
Emergency hurts free press,freedom of expression, say media bodies KARACHI: A joint meeting of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE), the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) was held here to consider the present state of press freedom in the country. The […]
HYDERABAD: Journalists throughout Pakistan on Wednesday protested against the recent media curbs, the closure of television news channels and arrests and torture of journalists in Karachi, Hyderabad and other areas of the country and called for a free media. In Hyderabad, the journalists registered their protest outside the Hyderabad Press Club, chanting slogans against the […]
ISLAMABAD: A powerful bomb blast in Mardan town of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province on Thursday damaged 10 shops selling music CDs and a bank though no one was injured. The explosive device planted close to the CD market at PRC Chowk in Mardan was detonated by remote control by unidentified persons at 6 am. […]
NEW YORK (November 22 2007): A leading press freedom body honoured four journalists on Tuesday for their work in countries it said were highly dangerous for reporters, including a former member of AFP caught up in Pakistan’s political turmoil. Mazhar Abbas, deputy director of ARY One World Television in Pakistan, which was shut down by […]
KARACHI, Nov 21: Journalists continued their protest against curbs on the media and forced closure of major TV news channels in their campaign against the imposition of emergency and curtailment of press freedom. A protest meeting was held at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) under the auspices of the Karachi Union of Journalists on the […]
After a prolonged ‘hibernation’ of sorts, members of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) showed defiance against the emergency and draconian laws against the media on November 20 with the voluntary arrests of as many as 181 journalists, including female reporters. These journalists were released late Tuesday night but the First Information Report (FIR) was registered […]
ISLAMABAD: The government controlled TV has initiated a campaign against all those western diplomats posted in Pakistan who have been expressing solidarity with the journalists and criticising other government restrictions. A PTV anchor on Wednesday evening devoted his show to castigate the US diplomats for criticising the crackdown on the media, imposition of emergency rule […]
KARACHI (November 22 2007): The newly introduced Voice Messaging Service (VMS) of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) would enable customers to get messages even when they are away from their landline. PTCL has made the VMS optional and the subscriber would have the option to activate or deactivate the service using their own telephone set, […]
The World TV Day was observed throughout the world on November 21 as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1996. Ironically, however, in Pakistan the most important means of information – that is, television – is braving against all odds and is facing oppression at the hands of the government. Since the imposition […]
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