LAHORE: A female schoolteacher of a small village in Kharian refused to make out-of-court settlement with her tormentor who uploaded her objectionable pictures on her Facebook account. On Tuesday, she said her persistent standing against the cyber crime suspect was redeemed when an additional session judge, Lahore, handed down two-year imprisonment to him (Yasir Lateef) […]
Freedom of Expression and media regulation news captured much space in the print and electronic media during the week. Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA’s) harsh steps were witnessed in curbing freedom of expression by suspending licences of two channels Neo News and Din News; while imposing fine on Sach TV along with both suspended […]
KARACHI: The ninth edition of the International Urdu Conference hosted by the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi will be held from Dec 1 to Dec 4, announced the council’s Ahmed Shah at a press conference on Tuesday. Every year Indian writers and poets attend the moot, lending it variety. This time round, owing to the […]
Any civilised society looks after its weak and vulnerable members. Unfortunately in this country the transgender community is subjected to worst forms of discrimination. They are treated as lesser beings contemptuously called eunuchs who do not deserve access to employment opportunities or pursue other interests in life. If the prevailing social prejudices were not bad […]
Tells NA advisories sent to all channels by Pemra to check this practice; movers of calling attention notice suggest dramas should unite families instead of dividing them ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb Monday said any news or entertainment content violating societal norms and ethics should be stopped and the Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD: Women find themselves particularly vulnerable in the increasing cybercrime, a conference on ending online violence against women was informed on Monday. BBC journalist Shumaila Jaffery told the conference that 45pc of the 3,000 cyber crimes reported by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) related to harassment of women. “Honour turns to murder in digital spaces,” […]
ISLAMABAD: Justice Mian Saqib Nisar of Supreme Court Monday said the judiciary also respected the media but it should not be maligned as it was also one of the pillars of the state. The observation came during the hearing of a suo moto case against the management of a private news channel for airing false […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of Uganda welcomed the charges brought against the former police commander of Kampala District, Joram Mwesigye for assaulting a Wavah Broadcasting Services (WBS) TV journalist, Andrew Lwanga. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter urged the government of Uganda to serve […]
Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (Pemra), the broadcast media regulatory body, has suspended and imposed fines on two television channels and fined another channel for slandering the superior judiciary of Pakistan. Pemra had issued show cause notices to Neo News, Din News and Sach TV on November 19, 2016 and asked to submit […]
KARACHI: Former general manager of PTV Karachi centre and author Burhanuddin Hasan passed away here on Sunday. He was 86. He leaves behind his wife, a son and two daughters. Mr Hasan was born in 1930 in the princely state of Rampur, India. After partition, his family shifted to Lahore. He did his graduation from […]
LAHORE: Police claimed on Monday to have investigated 38 employees of the Federal Lodges called Chamba House in a PML-N female worker’s death case while an investigator hinted at drug overuse to be the cause of her death. Samia Chaudhry, 35, a resident of Islamabad, was found dead in a room of the lodges by […]
By: Umer Farooq PESHAWAR: Irked by ‘repeated complaints’ filed on behalf of members of the transgender community, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police challenged the jurisdiction of the provincial Human Rights Directorate (HRD). The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Promotion, Protection and Enforcement of Human Rights Directorate was set up in 2014 and has since then resolved hundreds of domestic issues. The […]
ISLAMABAD: PEMRA on Saturday suspended licences of Din News and Neo TV and fined them Rs1 million each for leveling baseless allegations against a Supreme Court judge. Similarly, Sach TV has also been fined Rs1 million for airing remarks of caller Ali Nawaz. The three TV channels were issued notices on November 19 for airing irresponsible […]
KARACHI: A sessions court turned down on Saturday the bail application of an assistant professor at Karachi University’s psychology department in a case registered under the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (PECA), 2016. Prof Farhan Kamrani was arrested last month for allegedly posting fabricated photos of a woman teacher, who has been working as a […]
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