• November 18, 2013
• Front Page, Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has imposed Rs10 million fine on 10 entertainment television channels this year for violating code of conduct by airing excessive foreign contents, reveals a document of Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage. According to the document, the local channels were airing excessive Indian contents from the prescribed […]

• November 13, 2013
• Media Ethics

Vo intizar tha jiska, ye vo sahar to nahin (It’s not the dawn we expected; It’s not the dawn we were looking for — Translated by Mahmud Jamal) THE words of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written in August 1947, may well be applied to the outcome of the long struggle for freedom of the media in […]

• November 11, 2013
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has imposed a fine of Rs10 million on 10 entertainment channels of the country for airing Indian and obscene content for more than 10 percent of the airtime. Show cause notices have also been issued to these Pakistani entertainment TV channels. According to sources, Pemra, founded to […]

• November 8, 2013
• Front Page, Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice (CJ) Islamabad High Court (IHC) Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi on Thursday while issuing stay order once again directed a private TV channel to file reply till December 2 as to why it had been continuing with defamatory and baseless allegations against Jang/Geo Group despite the October 31 restraining orders. Requesting the court […]

• November 4, 2013
• Media Ethics

LAHORE: The Racecourse Police have registered a case against a TV anchor Mubasher Lucman on the charges of attacking known scholar and Jang Group Editor Religious Affairs Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain and uttering abuses against country’s courts and the Jang Group. A case No 591/13 under Section 506 of PPC was registered against the accused […]

• November 4, 2013
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Information Secretary Dr. Shireen Mazari on Sunday issued her party’s official position on the ‘Geo-Jang group legal notice and other targeting of PTI and its chairman in a highly offensive and personal manner’. One, that the legal notice be withdrawn immediately as it is undemocratic and absurd since it seeks to muzzle […]

• November 3, 2013
• Media Ethics

KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has denied that any of its official social media wings posted defamatory material against the Jang-Geo Group. “It is a conspiracy to set the PTI against the Jang Group,” Shafqat Mahmood, a senior PTI leader and its MNA from Lahore, told The News. “Some third force, having nefarious designs, wants […]

• November 2, 2013
• Media Ethics

KARACHI: The Jang Group is no stranger to being targeted, as it has been under attack for the past many years. During the last few months, however, the viciousness on display must have shocked everyone. The sheer venom and vindictiveness of the attack has forced us to speak plainly and unveil the reasons as well […]

• November 2, 2013
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Insaf Pakistan has disassociated itself from the ongoing propaganda on social media against Jang and Geo Group. PTI Information Secretary Shireen Mazari said reports that PTI would issue any white paper against the Jang/Geo Group are baseless and a mere propaganda. Mazari said that the PTI core committee meeting is being held on Saturday […]

• November 1, 2013
• Media Ethics

When Mian Nawaz Sharif appointed Ata-ul-Haq Qasmi as the ambassador of Pakistan in Norway, I honestly did not think too much about that nomination. My reason then was and still is simple: after a long decade of relentless power struggle, administrative immaturity and political intolerance, it was not considered to be that big a problem. […]

• November 1, 2013
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi on Thursday restrained a private TV channel anchor, Zaid Hamid and a senior journalist Mehmood Sham from printing, publishing or broadcasting any defamatory material against the Jang Group. The IHC CJ adjourned the matter till December 2, and directed the three respondents to […]

• November 1, 2013
• Front Page, Media Ethics

KARACHI: The Jang Group is again the target of unfounded, biased and malicious allegations. Whether there is a democratic government or a dictatorship in power, they have been antagonistic to the independent policies of the Jang and Geo Group. There are also private organisations in Pakistan which have targeted the biggest media group of the […]

• October 31, 2013
• Front Page, Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday angrily reacted to the legal notice served to its chairman, Imran Khan, by Jang/Geo media group and objected against the “the gross abuse Imran Khan is being subjected to in the name of political humour on Geo”. According to a statement of the party, PTI Central Information Secretary Shireen […]

• October 31, 2013
• Media Ethics

IT was some time in the first half of 2009 that I got a call from my director news telling me that the newsroom was now looking for more stories from the city of Faisalabad because the people meter, the ratings tool, had just been installed in that city. For the first time, ratings were […]