Paksitan Press Foundation Rss Feed http://www.paksitanpressfoundation.org The Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered on Tuesday the Information Technology Ministry and the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority to file their reply on a petition seeking a permanent ban on social networking website Facebook for posting “a blasphemous contest”. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22533 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:49:02 GMT PPFRSSID-558 The government is eyeing a possible ban on Indian films in cinemas for the upcoming Eidul Fitr in order to encourage the struggling local industry, Culture Minister Aftab Shah Jilani said on Tuesday. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22542 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:48:10 GMT PPFRSSID-557 A large number of journalists held a demonstration and staged a sit-in at Clock Tower roundabout here on Tuesday to protest against the kidnapping of a journalist near the local press club on Monday night. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22536 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:47:02 GMT PPFRSSID-556 A petition has been filed before the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking permanent ban on Facebook, a social networking website, in Pakistan pointing out introduction of another anti-Islam competition by the website. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22526 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:06:58 GMT PPFRSSID-555 Facebook pages carrying ‘blasphemous content’ are still accessible in Pakistan, IT Ministry sources said on Monday. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22524 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:06:09 GMT PPFRSSID-554 Renowned Pakistani singer, model and now a Bollywood hero, Ali Zafar on Thursday appealed to the president and the prime minister to consider lifting the ban imposed on his Indian movie titled ‘Tere Bin Laden’ and give it a chance in the cinemas of Pakistan. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22492 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:39:20 GMT PPFRSSID-553 At a time when many Pakistani classical singers are getting work in the Indian film industry, no efforts are being made to promote the art form in Pakistan. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22480 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:43:11 GMT PPFRSSID-552 President Asif Ali Zardari said that Thailand serves as a role model for many developing countries for development of tourism industry and Pakistan can promote its tourism industry on similar lines. This he said during his meeting with a delegation of Thai media scholars here at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Wednesday. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22476 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:41:11 GMT PPFRSSID-551 Six people were injured when two low-intensity time-bombs exploded in internet cafes at Garhi Shahu and Shahdara’s Begumkot locality in Lahore, on Saturday, July 17, 2010. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22454 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:32:42 GMT PPFRSSID-550 Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court while declining any restraining order against reporting of a member Punjab Assembly case pertaining to fake degree held that article 19-A inserted through 18th amendment, provided protection to the access to information. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22453 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:24:22 GMT PPFRSSID-549 Pakistan on Friday delayed the review of a ban on an Indian Bollywood comedy poking fun at Osama bin Laden, which censors said was a threat to security and offensive to Muslims. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22436 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:24:50 GMT PPFRSSID-548 Mir Ibrahim Rahman has joined the distinguished ranks of alumni awarded the Robert F Kennedy Public Service Award from Harvard University, one of the top centres of learning in the world. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22431 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:24:02 GMT PPFRSSID-547 The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has directed the Ministry of Information and Labour and Manpower to actively pursue the 7th Wage Board Award case, which is pending before the Sindh High Court since 2004. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22438 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:23:37 GMT PPFRSSID-546 The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has halved the licence fee of small town radio stations from Rs 200,000 to Rs 100,000. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22405 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:32:29 GMT PPFRSSID-545 Faced with a dwindling audience and fewer hits, the cinema and theatre industry has been told by police to arrange surveillance cameras and walkthrough gates to avert any untoward incident. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22402 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:31:20 GMT PPFRSSID-544 The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz says poor monitoring of legislative work in the Punjab Assembly resulted in the anti-media document. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22403 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:30:36 GMT PPFRSSID-543 The PPP leadership has decided to act as a friendly political party to the media and focus on Punjab to “tell the people the truth” about their achievements regarding services provided for the nation at the federal level. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22406 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:29:59 GMT PPFRSSID-542 The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has constituted a ten member committee for determining modalities to resolve the issue cropped up due to the anti media resolution passed by the Punjab Assembly. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22374 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:23:20 GMT PPFRSSID-541 The All Pakistan Newspapers Society at an emergency meeting held on Monday rejected what it described as an ‘astonishing and ill-conceived’ resolution on the state of Pakistani media passed on July 9 by the Punjab Assembly. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22365 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:22:15 GMT PPFRSSID-540 The PML-N-led Punjab government did not move on Monday to withdraw the resolution that accused the media of working to undermine the constitutional arrangement in the country and derail democracy as journalists boycotted the house proceedings and refused to join any talks until the document was scrapped from the assembly record. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22363 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:19:53 GMT PPFRSSID-539 Journalists and media organisations staged country-wide rallies to protest against the anti-media resolution passed by Punjab Assembly on Friday, July 09, 2010. The assembly resolution condemned ‘sections of the media’ for their ‘irresponsible behaviour’ that could have a “negative impact on the future of democracy and rule of law.” http://pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22350 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:41:34 GMT PPFRSSID-538 Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is said to have taken the handwritten draft of the resolution against the media from the Speaker’s chamber to his residence for “editing” on Thursday afternoon and returned it after making some required additions with clear instructions to hand over the final draft to MPA Sanaullah Mastikhel on Friday for approval by the Punjab Assembly. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22340 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:40:27 GMT PPFRSSID-537 Observing a ‘black day’, journalists held demonstrations across the country on Saturday in protest against the resolution passed unanimously by the Punjab Assembly against the media. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22342 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:39:23 GMT PPFRSSID-536 The government is patronising some private media channels promoting religious extremism. Many of these media channels don’t even have licences. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22358 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:38:46 GMT PPFRSSID-535 Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday supported the MPAs’ onslaught on the media they had launched the other day in the house accusing it of indulging in character assassination of elected representatives in the name of fake degrees. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22327 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:15:23 GMT PPFRSSID-534 In a rare show of unity in the Punjab Assembly, all major political parties on Wednesday launched a fierce attack on the media for “maligning politicians on the issue of fake graduation degrees”. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22311 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:30:43 GMT PPFRSSID-533 The Sindh High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the secretary for the ministry of Haj and religious affairs, the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on a petition seeking a permanent ban on an international social networking website in the country for posting blasphemous material. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22312 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:29:31 GMT PPFRSSID-532 The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday expressed concern at a spike in incidents of violence against journalists. http://pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22301 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:39:36 GMT PPFRSSID-531 Muhammad Akram, a Lahore-based senior reporter for the English-language newspaper "Daily Times", was assaulted by police in Lahore, the capital of the province of Punjab, while filming a protest on July 4, 2010. http://pakistanpressfoundation.org/usermediafilesdetails.asp?uid=22279 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:36:47 GMT PPFRSSID-530 The son of Khalid Khawaja, a former ISI official, has urged the Lahore High Court to order registration of a criminal case against an anchor of a private television channel for the murder of his father. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22271 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:24:49 GMT PPFRSSID-528 The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday gave further one-week time to the Islamabad IGP to recover the kidnapped son of a journalist, Shakeel Turabi, and produce him before the court by July 9. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22274 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:24:27 GMT PPFRSSID-527 The mysterious “Media Coordination Committee on Defence Planning” met here on Thursday with almost full attendance, but did not discuss the agenda that had caused alarm in the media circles, and instead decided to review its own mandate. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22247 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:46:29 GMT PPFRSSID-526 The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has strongly deplored the consistent indifference of the Sindh government to clear the long outstanding dues of the member publications for advertisementss released by the Sindh Information Department, stated a press release here on Thursday. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=22251 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:45:21 GMT PPFRSSID-524 A local court on Monday dismissed bail petition of two French journalists arrested on Friday last in the Cantonment area. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=21929 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:21:16 GMT PPFRSSID-482 The ripples caused by the emergence of an audio tape on the web last week of an alleged telephone conversation between a prominent Pakistani journalist and a Pakistani Taliban militant has blown into a full-fledged controversy, with the journalist and television anchor now completely denying his involvement and many others calling for a high-level investigation to establish truth. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=21773 Wed, 19 May 2010 10:38:52 GMT PPFRSSID-461 In a response to a news item appeared in daily TheNation on May 17 “PTV Global unable to reach US viewers-Negligence takes heavy toll”, the state-run TV has tried to give an explanation, which, however, does not address the points raised in the above-mentioned story. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=21780 Wed, 19 May 2010 10:37:57 GMT PPFRSSID-460 The President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari has advised the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) MPAs’ not to fear the negative propaganda by the media against the PPP government and rather face it boldly. http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/userMediaFilesDetails.asp?uid=21776 Wed, 19 May 2010 10:34:34 GMT PPFRSSID-458