Altaf Hussain, a British national, gets live coverage from all private television channels, delivering a speech in which he threatens to carve out a new state, if his demands are not met and yet PEMRA finds nothing wrong with this. Does this qualify as freedom of speech guaranteed by constitution? I am afraid the Constitution […]
KARACHI: The impact of the Internet in a local context particularly in relation to the state ‘compulsion’ to regulate and control the cyberspace was discussed on Friday at the launch of a comprehensive report about Pakistan’s online future. While the blocking and filtering of content on the Internet by the state resulted in numerous violations […]
RAWALPINDI: One is supposed to go home — straight — after work. Any detours worry the parents, do they not? But a 30 -year-old youth despite a promise to his father of coming in “five minutes” was obliged by two bullets to take a detour to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences where doctors pronounced him […]
Estimates vary but there are between 30 and 35 million individual subscribers to an internet connection in Pakistan, the majority of those being via a mobile device, either phone or tablet. That figure is going to continue to rise for the foreseeable future. The internet is a crucial business and learning resource nationally, banking and […]
ISLAMABAD: The PPP Senator Rahman Malik on Friday stated in the Senate that the government was not paying Advertisement dues of the media houses due to which they were also not paying salaries to their employees. On a point of objection in the Senate session he said that reporters and cameramen of certain media groups […]
LAHORE: Bahauddin Zikaria University Lahore Campus Friday organised a media workshop titled “How to Excel in Reporting.” BNU Dean Faculty of Social Sciences Dr Mehdi Hassan and columnist Javed Chaudhary were the resource persons. Addressing the participants, they said that the media got prominent status among all professions. They said reporting and conveying the truth […]
Karachi: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, patron-in-chief of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), on Thursday condemned the killing of senior journalist Shaan Dahar in Larkana and asked the Sindh government to bring the culprits to book. “I was shocked to hear that another senior journalist has fallen to bullets that too on the very first day of […]
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