ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday angrily reacted to the legal notice served to its chairman, Imran Khan, by Jang/Geo media group and objected against the “the gross abuse Imran Khan is being subjected to in the name of political humour on Geo”. According to a statement of the party, PTI Central Information Secretary Shireen […]
IT was some time in the first half of 2009 that I got a call from my director news telling me that the newsroom was now looking for more stories from the city of Faisalabad because the people meter, the ratings tool, had just been installed in that city. For the first time, ratings were […]
ABU DHABI: A shared culture and matching sensibility make India a promising destination for screening films from across the border, say Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi, co-directors of highly-acclaimed Pakistani film Zinda Bhaag. Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah-starrer Zinda Bhaag is the first Pakistani movie to be sent for the Oscars in the last 50 years. […]
Not a week goes by without another story of an adult doing something colossally stupid on social media and paying the price. So why in the world did Facebook think it advisable to allow 13-year-old kids to make their pictures and status updates public? In a widely-decried move, Facebook announced last week that underage users […]
PUBLIC memory is short, so goes the proverb. This greatly helps the opposition when lambasting the incumbents for their shortcomings. The public rounds it up because it is rightly concerned with “today’s” misery, forgetting the factors that led to such hardships. The present is always linked to the past. On almost all TV networks, generally […]
ISLAMABAD: After a long struggle and sacrifices, Pemra Officers Welfare Association (Powa) has finally been registered under the Industrial Relations Act, 2012. Following officers have been elected as office bearers and members of its executive body: Javiad Iqbal (President), Khurram Siddiqi (Vice President), Amjad Ali (Secretary General), Tamseel Hayder (Joint Secretary), Mazhar Mahmood (Secretary Finance), […]
PESHAWAR: The much trumpeted Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Right to Information (RTI) law, 2013 still has a bumpy way to go before it makes it into the statutory book. After the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf drafted the law, it was promulgated as a governor’s ordinance on August 13, 2013 and then presented in the assembly on September 16. Before […]
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has demanded to journalists’ and international human rights organisations’ access to the drone-hit areas. Thus, the government, security agencies and militants must respect freedom of the press, and allow media, national and international human rights organisations to visit areas hit by drone attacks since 9/11, to meet the aggrieved […]
ISLAMABAD: Senators across party lines endorsed on Tuesday a report of the Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on the Right to Information Bill, 2013, whose emphasis appears to be hiding rather than giving easy access to information. The chairman of the standing committee, Kamil Ali Agha of the PML-Q, presented the report before the […]
Karachi: The Sindh government has decided to transfer the murder trial of Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar from an anti- terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi to another city due to security concerns. “The formal request for the transfer of the trial will be made to the chief justice of the Sindh High Court so […]
Quite a lot of times, Pakistani TV talk shows discuss insignificant subjects. Do these talk shows achieve anything worthwhile? Many more burning issues such as education, health, infrastructure, low-cost housing, culture, etc. should be covered and discussed. In Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Laos, etc., not a single talk show exists. The TV programmes there have a […]
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has felicitated the Journalists community of the province for the brilliant success of Khyber Union of Journalists (KHUJ) in the elections of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ). In a statement, he congratulated senior journalists Shamim Shahid, Zia-ul-Haq, Arshad Aziz Malik, Saiful Islam Saifi and Samin Jan of […]
KARACHI: Rana Azeem and Amin Yusuf were elected president and secretary general of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists for the years 2013-2015 on Saturday. They secured 119 and 121 votes while their rival candidates Afzal Butt and Khurshid Abbasi bagged 118 and 118 votes, respectively. Announcing the results after tabulation, PFUJ election committee chairman Sajid […]
LAHORE: The media and civil society should together put pressure on the government to comply with international commitments, as well as Pakistani laws, against the use of torture by security agencies, said speakers at a seminar here on Monday. The seminar on ‘Prevalence of torture in Pakistan, our international commitments and the role of media’ […]
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