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Daily Archives: September 8, 2013

Journalists to boycott tomorrow’s PA session against terminations

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Karachi: The journalist community will boycott the Sindh Assembly session of September 9 (Monday) against the forceful terminations of as many as 26 journalists from a local newspaper, President Karachi Union of Journalists announced this on Saturday. Addressing a protest meeting outside the newspaper office, President KUJ GM Jamali said that they would record their […]


Outdated journalism course still being taught at AIOU

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ISLAMABAD: Humayun, a student of journalism at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), visited the printing press of a newspaper and was taken aback to know that his course of study did not contain any topic on the process of newspaper printing. When he brought the matter to the notice of his teacher, the latter […]


Journalist Shafi Aqeel remembered

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KARACHI: Well-known journalist, writer and poet Shafi Aqeel was laid to rest on Saturday afternoon. Aged 83, he passed away after a long illness here on Friday night. He had been associated with the Jang newspaper for more than six decades and was in charge of its literary magazine. He also wrote books on varied […]


Internet in universities

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MOST universities in Pakistan have provided Internet facilities to their students and faculty members, but in some of them loadshedding hinders this facility. This happens because the central equipment providing the Internet facility to the users isn’t connected to an alternative source of power. The problem can be resolved once and for all if these […]


Judicial inquiry into journalist’s abduction demanded

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PESHAWAR: The media watchdog organisation Freedom Network (FN) has demanded a judicial inquiry into reports that men in police uniforms kidnapped, tortured and detained investigative journalist Ali K Chishti. “What Chishti has described is shocking that the Karachi police could kidnap a journalist to deliver him to the Boss,” FN said. Ali Chishti, who writes […]