• September 3, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

ISLAMABAD: The Independent Media Corporation, Independent Newspapers Corporation and News Publications through their counsel Khalid Jawed Khan advocate served legal notice on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for leveling false, defamatory and misleading allegations against the media group and its owner Mir Shakil ur Rehman. Following is the text of the legal notice. This […]

• July 8, 2014
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Islamabad West, Wajid Ali, while maintaining bailable arrest warrants against chief executive officer of a private TV channel, ARY, Salman Iqbal, and anchor Mubasher Luqman, ordered them to appear on the next hearing in the criminal petition filed against defaming and hurting the integrity of the Jang and […]

• May 16, 2014
• Media Ethics

KARACHI: Dr Aamir Liaquat has said that the ARY channel had aired the same ‘Manqabat’ which was totally unacceptable and it hurt the sentiments of Geo viewers. He identified that Mubashar Lucman’s channel ARY had telecast the same ‘Manqabat’ three times in the same manner on different occasions and as evidence, videos of the same […]

• May 11, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S), Maulana Samiul Haq, has said it is highly ridiculous to term Jang and Geo as traitor or are working on foreign agenda. He said Jang and Geo always respected the all institutions of national security and gave the status of national heroes and martyrs to […]

• May 8, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: Renowned Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has said that rigging allegations of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan against Jang and Geo are childish. Talking to this correspondent, he said that the media initially, across the world, announces unconfirmed and unofficial results during the elections and the Geo had done the same. […]

• May 6, 2014
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

Jang/Geo, Pakistan’s largest media group has in a letter written to the top civil and military leaders, including the army chief and interior and information ministers, alleged that incidents of intimidation of its staff had increased to an alarming level since the April 19 attack on the group’s television anchor Hamid Mir. The media house […]

• May 4, 2014
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

KARACHI: Sindh Information and Local Government Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Saturday said that the Pakistan People’s Party’s government in the province would never accept the shutting down of the publication of Daily Jang or the closure of the transmission of Geo TV as it would be in sheer violation of principles of freedom of […]

• May 4, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: Hyder Zaman Qureshi — senior vice-president of PPP south Punjab — said the press conference by PTI chief Imran Khan in which he announced a complete boycott of Geo News and Jang Group after one year of the general elections was another gimmick to fool the nation. In a statement issued on Saturday, Qureshi […]

• April 25, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

LAHORE: The counsel for the petitioner in case against Jang/Geo Group Thursday resorted to rowdyism and pushed the lawyer of the defendant calling him traitor. Additional Session Judge Ghulam Abbas Sayal adjourned hearing into petition of a local lawyer Sardar Wakeel Ahmad till April 25. The petitioner asked in petition that Geo TV blamed Pakistan […]