Mubashir Hassan LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly members on Tuesday expressed mixed opinion over a resolution demanding ban on some Indian channels, and finally voted it out through voice vote, as majority did not support it on the plea that it would harm sentiments of the minorities living here. The mover, Samina Khawar Hayat of PML-Q […]
By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: The so-called core committee of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) that held an emergency meeting at the president house here Tuesday evening favoured the idea of calling the Army and handing Karachi over to it for maintaining law and order situation in the biggest city of the country. The […]
RAWALPINDI: In the Geo News programme ‘Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Saath,’ the host Kamran Khan has expressed surprise that after having failed to nab killers of thousands of people, the government had identified Indian agents in the country. And it was Senior Minister in the Punjab cabinet Raja Riaz who had made the disclosure. He […]
By Faizan Bangash LAHORE: The PPP legislators continued giving vent to their anger against the daily Jang and Geo News channel and its senior members in and outside the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday. Along with Senior Minister of the PPP Raja Riaz, it were Azma Zahid Bokhari and Col (R) Naveed Sajid, two other PPP […]
Karachi: A media cell has been established in the Information Department where-round-the clock monitoring of electronic media is being ensured to immediately address the basic social and human rights issues. This was disclosed by the Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister on Information, Sharmila Farooqui, while talking to an 18-member delegation of the Pakistan Association of […]
Newspaper editors seek inquiry into robbery at journalist’s house LAHORE: Newspaper editors have condemned a robbery at a journalist’s house, allegedly carried out by the intelligence agencies, and urged an investigation into the incident. Sirmed Manzoor, the chief coordinator of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), said at a seminar held at SAFMA that […]
LAHORE: The presidency has summoned Senior Minister Raja Riaz after his ‘hard hitting’ statement against journalists of a media group. Riaz, who is also the parliamentary head of his party in Punjab, had labelled two journalists as “Indian agents”. Riaz told Dawn he would meet the president on Wednesday (today) and clarify his position. He […]
LAHORE: Reiterating the stance which he took against a media group on Monday on the floor of the House, PPP’s Raja Riaz said on Tuesday he stood by his assertion. Substantiating his point, he said an anchor person of the group had done several hundred TV programmes and all of them targeted party co-chairperson and […]
By Usman Manzoor ISLAMABAD: Allegations against two senior journalists, The News Editor Investigation Ansar Abbasi and Geo TV Senior Anchor Kamran Khan, of being agents of CIA and Indian agency RAW by senior PPP leader Raja Riaz and other MPs have been widely denounced by all political parties and members of civil society including stalwarts […]
KARACHI: A media cell has been established in the Information Department where round the clock monitoring of electronic media is being ensured to immediately address the basic social and human rights issues. This was disclosed by the Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh on Information, Sharmila Faruqui, on Tuesday. She was talking to an 18-member visiting […]
I CAME across a news item (Oct 17) about the US plan to review an Australian programme to increase computer safety while it is connected to the Internet. We are living in the computer age. The computer occupies a major space in every home today in developed countries. Computers without the Internet are a thing […]
Women journalists told to join hands to overcome hurdles. ISLAMABAD: Women journalists in Pakistan should establish a strong network to overcome various hurdles they are facing from pressure groups and discouraging social factors, said Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow for the US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think tank. “It […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is set to announce the establishment of a commission which will review criminal cases and determine possible “miscarriage of justice” in cases including that of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged in 1979, Dawn has learnt. Mr Gilani approved the proposal after a presentation was given […]
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