• October 6, 2016
• Freedom of Expression, Protest Letters by PPF

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda expressed concern over a move resorting to the offence of contempt of parliament and invoking parliamentary privilege in Uganda as weapons or threats to discourage positive constructive criticism from the media. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged […]

• October 6, 2016
• General News

Economist Dr Kaisar Bengali proposed on Wednesday the abolishment of the absentee landholding system and tenancy system in the agriculture sector in order to provide livelihood rights to agricultural workers and develop rural areas. He suggested establishing small industries for non-farmers who are mainly displaced tenants expelled from farmlands. While speaking at a seminar titled […]

• October 6, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

The National Coordinating Body of the Mangroves for the Future Programme (MFF) has proposed that Charna Island and Miani Hor should be declared as “Marine Protected Areas”. The 16th meeting of the National Coordinating Body (NCB) of the Mangroves for the Future Programme (MFF) Pakistan was held on Monday at the Pakistan Naval Academy at […]

• October 6, 2016
• Arts and Entertainment, Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court sought on Wednesday the government’s comprehensive response regarding objectionable portions of the controversial film Maalik whose screening was banned across the country for showing the assassination of a government official by his personal security guard. A two-judge bench consisting of Justices Umar Atta Bandial and Qazi Faez Isa had taken up […]

• October 6, 2016
• Broadcasting, Front Page

ISLAMABAD – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgat-Balitistan governments yesterday assured the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (PEMRA) that they would support the Authority’s drive against Indian DTH in Pakistan. Chairman PEMRA Absar Alam met CM KP Pervez Khattak and CM G-B Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman separately in Islamabad and briefed them about the Authority’s crackdown on illegal Indian […]