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Daily Archives: October 14, 2013

‘Use of authentic information most valuable tool for journalists’

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KARACHI: Nisar Khuhro, the Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy, while emphasising on the importance of information management, termed access to authentic information as the most valuable tool for a journalist. He was addressing a certificate distribution ceremony of participating journalists in 2-day media training workshop on Information Management. It was organised by the Skill […]


HRCP for talks with Baloch insurgents

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LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to hold immediate talks with Baloch insurgents, both within and outside the country, without any impunity to individuals among them causing grave human rights violations. Launching a report of its fact-finding mission to Balochistan here on Sunday, the commission also urged the […]


‘Intolerance has throttled expression’

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LAHORE: “In a society that accepts extremism as its identity, how can anyone exercise freedom of speech or expression?” Columnist Saleem Raaz said, “How can writers find the courage to challenge such ideas?” The second session of the concluding day of the Second International Urdu Conference was themed Chaos in the Pakistani Society and the […]


Lakki journalists condemn killing of colleague

LAKKI MARWAT: Local journalists held a protest demonstration on Sunday to condemn the killing of their colleague Ayyub Khattak in Karak and attacking another journalist Sardar Shafiq in Abbotabad. Led by Hafiz Minhajud Din, Patron-in-Chief Lakki Marwat Press Club the protesters started a march from main lorry adda and converged at Kargil Chowk. They carried […]


Pakistan: Journalist Shot and Killed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa

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Ayub Khan Khattak, 42, reporter of a local newspaper “Karak Times” was shot dead outside his home by two gunmen, on October 11, 2013 in Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhuwa province of Pakistan. The gunmen, waiting on a motorcycle, opened fire on Khattak as he was returning home with his son at around six in the […]