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Jamaat-e-Islami leader blasts government for bid to gag the media

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MINGORA: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has condemned a government move to bring new media ordinance aimed at gaging the press in the country. “The proposed ordinance will intensify the miseries of journalists and create the worst situation for free media. The rulers want to curb the media and press freedom in […]


Media urged to work for unity

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LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq says that governments in the country had been violating laws and the merit with impunity, resulting into lawlessness and unrest in society. “The media should use its power for the establishment of the rule of law and recognition of merit in order to develop a peaceful society based on justice […]


Media Black Holes

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For some places to get any attention, people have to die. In Balochistan, mere death is not good enough, people have to die in large numbers, better still, die due to a natural calamity since natural disasters seem to be politically neutral. As Awaran was struck by one of the most horrific earthquakes of recent […]


Protest against murder of Abbas Jalbani’s son

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KARACHI: A protest demonstration was held in front of the Karachi Press Club on Sunday against the murder in Thatta of Rafique Jalbani, the son of senior journalist Abbas Jalbani. Protesters belonging to the Progressive Youth Front called for arrest of main suspects nominated in the FIR of the case and provision of shelter to […]


Bangladesh trials and Pakistani TV channels

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IT is interesting to note that Pakistan’s electronic media is practically silent on the defining change that some Muslim countries in our region and beyond are going through. The media is specially silent on the intriguing story developing in Bangladesh over the last few months. It has been completely ignored. That country has taken a […]