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Daily Archives: September 26, 2012

‘Movie against principles of freedom of expression’

KARACHI: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has said sacrilegious film is a total denial of the principles of freedom of expression.He was talking to the chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council Allama Tahir Ashrafi on telephone. Altaf expressed grave concerns on the increasing wave of religious extremism, sectarian violence and bloodshed done against religious minorities and lack […]


Girl gunned down for ‘honour’

SARGODHA: A youth gunned down his sister for honour here at village 112/SB in the wee hours of Tuesday. Muhammad Ramzan doubted that his sister Shabana had involved in suspicious activities and had forbid her not to go out of house. But she defied his brother and kept on following her will. At which enraged […]


Pakistani newspaper ban in Afghanistan

By: AYAANA MALIK The Afghan government has banned Pakistani newspapers, which clearly exemplifies the sentiments of the US-backed Afghan government, while the criticism arising from within the Afghan community for such an approach shows that the people do not view the curb as a sensible step. In fact, there is a call for dialogue between […]


Supreme Court brings journalists in ‘contempt net’

By: Hasnaat malik ISLAMABAD: Contempt of court cases are on the rise in 2012 as the Supreme Court on Tuesday indicted the chief editor of an English magazine for scandalising and disrespecting the judiciary by publishing a news report about an email allegedly written by the SC registrar to seek tax returns and verification of […]


Free speech

By: Bina Shah Is the anti-Muslim video, Innocence of Muslims, an issue of free speech or hate speech? That’s the question foremost on my mind as I think back to a weekend of madness, in which protestors against the film ran wild in the streets of Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore, destroying public and private property […]


Anti-Islam film: Despite criticism, Bilour stands by bounty offer

ISLAMABAD: Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour on Tuesday stood by his bounty call, saying it was the “only way” to stop insults to the Holy Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). Bilour sparked international condemnation when he offered $100,000 in blood money for the filmmaker who produced the anti-Islam movie, and urged the Taliban and al Qaeda to […]


Media needs regulation not control

By: M Ziauddin We are just about to enter the election season, a season when promises are made to be broken; manifestos are announced to be forgotten. I only hope that the Chief Election Commissioner, Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, a person of highest esteem and integrity would be able to restrain these political parties […]


Compensation for cinemas

After the devastation caused to cinemas across the country on September 21, the Pakistan Film Exhibitor’s Association is demanding that the government compensate it for the losses it suffered. This is an idea the government needs to consider, not just for cinema owners but for every business that suffered damages during the protests, not least […]


With Nishat cinema, Pakistan’s film industry lost its golden goose

By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: It seems that only our grandparents will now remember why Karachi was christened the City of Lights. The beautifully adorned billboards on main Bandar Road and Keamari were once decorated with larger than life posters of film stars; the fairy lights around the borders were part of the panorama that earned […]


Violence against women: In most honour killing cases, SHOs ‘favour’ the guilty party

SUKKUR: In most crimes against women, the SHOs register soft cases against the offenders. The FIRs are also written in such a way that nobody can even read them properly. The handwriting in the FIRs should be very clear and everybody should be able to read it. These views were shared by speakers at a […]


Post-film options

By: Farrukh Saleem ISLAMABAD: A Google search under ‘Jesus blasphemy’ (PBUH) generates 84 million websites. A similar search under ‘Mohammad blasphemy’ (PBUH) and the search engine generates 25.5 million websites. Such is the world we live in. What are our options? Option 1: Appealing to the US judicial system. Under US law, crime has two […]


Burney asks India to release Pak boy

KARACHI: Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney has requested the Indian government to release a Pakistani boy who mistakenly crossed the border. In his letters to the Indian external and home ministries, Ansar Burney said the 13-year- old Kashif is missing since September 18, 2011, says […]


Government submits changed draft of Swiss letter to Supreme Court today

By: Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday finally presented before the Supreme Court the first draft of the letter to be sent to Swiss authorities for the withdrawal of the 2008 letter by then attorney general Malik Qayyum, which led to the closure of graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. A five-member bench […]


Fata journalists face high security threat

ISLAMABAD: More than 50 per cent journalists from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have received threats of various kinds during last year while at least 33 per cent of the tribal journalists have faced threats of assault in line of duty. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 87 percent of journalists surveyed have termed militants and security forces […]