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Daily Archives: September 30, 2016

Director of country’s largest media group set free by abductors.   

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Karachi: September 30: Abid Abdullah, Director Coordination of the Pakistan’s largest media group Jang who as abducted in the early hours of September 28 was set free in the evening of the same day. He was kidnapped at gun point by unidentified men at around 3 am on from Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber […]


Out of nowhere: Megabats take over all the big trees on island

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SUKKUR: Thousands of megabats, also known as fruit bats, have occupied all the big trees on an island situated in the middle of River Indus near Sukkur Barrage. Earlier, such bats were seen in the katcha area of Piryalo and Pir Jo Goth. How the island was formed is an interesting story. Ten out of 66 […]


Curtain falls on Indian movies in Pakistani cinemas

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KARACHI: Cinema owners in Pakistan have decided not to screen any Indian movies until tensions between the two countries de-escalate. They took the decision on Thursday after the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association (IMPPA) banned all Pakistani artists from working in film projects in India. “We will suspend the exhibition of Indian films till normalcy,” said […]


Pemra dismisses complaints against two TV channels

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LAHORE: The Council of Complaints of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) dismissed on Thursday the complaints of the minority Ahmadi community against two private TV channels as ‘non-maintainable’. The decision was made after a mob entered the Pemra office in the Cantonment area, asking the authority to quash the complaints and raising slogans […]


PEMRA recommends fine against Neo TV

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The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has recommended imposition of a fine on Neo TV over its failure to edit its ‘Tabdeeli’ show. According to a press release, Pemra’s Council of Complaints in its 65th meeting held on Thursday in Lahore recommended imposition of Rs200,000 fine on Neo TV due to defamatory remarks made […]


Pemra directs TV channels to stop excessive Indian content

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has asked the satellite TV channels and distribution networks to discontinue excessive Indian content and airing of Indian channels through illegal Direct to Home (DTH). Considering the rising number of complaints against excessive Indian content, it is appropriate that all the satellite TV channels and distribution networks follow […]


PPF is concerned over the assault of Madiinah for covering a court case in Uganda

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda expressed concern over the assault of a female journalist Madiinah Ssebyala in Uganda. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Uganda to take action against Kassaga for assaulting and intimidating a female journalist who was […]