ISLAMABAD – Journalists’ protest against curbs on free media continued on Tuesday as hundreds of media persons and civil rights activists staged a protest demonstration in front of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club. ‘Fight for independent media will never cease’, ‘we never accept black laws’, were the slogans chanted by enraged journalists. To exhibit their solidarity […]
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: The Hyderabad press club set up a protest camp on the footpath of the club road to condemn the ban on private TV channels and Pemra ordinance. A large number of journalists, led by the press club president Khalid Khokhar, vice president Hameedur Rehman, Iqbal Mallah and others staged a sit-in at […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
PESHAWAR (November 28 2007): Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) Tuesday set up a protest camp against curbs on media imposed by the government after imposition of emergency in the country on November 3. The curbs imposed after bringing amendments in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and Press and Publication Ordinance (PPO) to gag […]
Minhaj Barna, who is regarded as among the pioneers of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) and the Pakistan Federation of Union of Journalists (PFUJ), now has an Urdu poetry book to his credit. The collection, titled Marssiya Chauthay Sutoon ka describes the tragedy of those who face with a dictatorship in their country. Although, […]
KARACHI, Nov 27: On the concluding day of the second phase of its campaign against emergency and curbs on the media, the PFUJ will observe ‘black day’ on Wednesday. It said that black flags would be hoisted atop all media offices in the country and journalists would wear black armbands during their duty hours. Meanwhile, […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
QUETTA (November 28 2007): A local journalist Riaz Mengal has surfaced after escaping from custody of kidnappers after about two months from mountainous areas near Noshki. Addressing a press conference here at the press club, Riaz Mengal said that some kidnappers had picked him on October 4 last from Khuzdar and shifted to some unknown […]
KARACHI (PPI) – World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and World Editors Forum (WEF) have demanded of President General Pervez Musharraf to immediately release all detained journalists, withdraw media curbs and uphold his prior commitments regarding the freedom of expression. WAN president Cavin 0 Reilly and WEF chief George Brock in their protest letter addressed to […]
KARACHI, Nov 27: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a petition against the suspension of Geo TV channels’ transmission to Thursday for detailed arguments. The petition was briefly taken up by a reconstituted division bench consisting of Justices Munib Ahmed Khan and Rana M. Shamim (who replaced Justice A.R. Farooq Pirzada). […]
KARACHI: Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rizwan Ahmed Siddiqui said on Tuesday that no written order was issued for the suspension of Geo TV channels. Responding to the arguments filed by Geo TV counsel Muhammad Ali Mazhar advocate, the DAG stated this before the Sindh High Court during the hearing of two constitutional petitions filed by […]
KARACHI, Nov 27: A local FM radio station is on the verge of a permanent closure as the authorities have not yet returned its broadcast equipment, which were seized hours after the imposition of emergency rule on Nov 3 by President General Pervez Musharraf. According to an FM-103 official, due to the seizure of the […]
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 27: Highwaymen on Tuesday gunned down a journalist when he was on his way home with his wife on a motorcycle near Dera City/Choti Zaireen in Sadar police precincts. The criminals shot Zulfiqar Changwani, who worked for a national daily, when he refused to stop on their signal. Later, they fled […]
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