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Daily Archives: April 25, 2007

Weekly press briefing on law, order planned

ISLAMABAD, April 24: The Ministry of Interior has decided to hold weekly press briefing on law and order situation and internal security issues, National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) Director General and ministry’s spokesman Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema said here on Tuesday. “Weekly briefing will be held on every Tuesday at 4 pm in his office,” […]


Man kills niece for ‘honour’ in Toba

TOBA TEK SINGH, April 24: Arrouti police and residents of the area were searching on Tuesday for the pieces of the body of a 15-year-old girl who was axed to death by her uncle in the name of honour in Mauza Chah Mirali Wala, some 50 kilometres from here near Head Sidhnai, on March 29. […]


Jihadi Media thrives in Pakistan despite promissed crackdown, fears of Talibanisation

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP)- A newspaper warns that Jews and Christians are engaged in “genocide” against Muslims. A Web site says children should love guns instead of cricket. A video shows a child beheading a militant accused of betraying his comrades. Despite government promises to crack down, hate-filled jihadist propaganda is thriving in Pakistan, especially in […]


Media authority threatens closure of television station for covering judicial crisis, warns all private stations against negative coverage of judiciary, army, or state

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has served a show-cause notice on private television channel Aaj TV for airing news, talk shows and other programmes on the judicial crisis in Pakistan and threatened the channel with closure. The notice issued on 22 April 2007 said that the TV channel had violated the […]


PML workers beat TV producer

ISLAMABAD: Workers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) on Tuesday beat up a producer of Business Plus, a private TV channel, outside the Supreme Court building during the presidential reference hearing. Noman Khalid, producer of Business Plus, was covering the PML rally when PML activists attacked him without provocation. Khalid suffered minor injuries and […]


No application of Aaj TV pending with Minstry of Information and Broadcast.

ISLAMABAD:The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting clarified on Wednesday that no application by Aaj TV for grant of no objection certificate for temporary uplinking facility was pending with the Ministry. A spokesman for the Ministry said in a statement that taking notice of media reports regarding non-issuance of NoC by the Ministry for the purpose, […]


Royal TV broadcast in Islamabad banned

Taking unofficial steps against Royal TV, Its broadcast was banned in federal capital and Rawalpindi through local cable operators. According to press release issued by Royal TV, government issued directives to cable operators to stop Royal TV transmission for its strong coverage to the reference against Chief Justice of Pakistan. After it, Royal TV transmission […]


Stranger’ forced to leave press club

QUETTA, April 24: Journalists and newspaper workers staged a demonstration against forced entry into the Quetta Press Club of a man suspected of working for a secret agency. They also raised slogans against the government for serving notice on the Aaj television network. According to the press club’s secretary general Razaur Rahman, the man, Mohammad […]


Indian poets and writers in city

KARACHI (April 25 2007): India’s Urdu poets, writers and editor of literary magazine have arrived in Karachi recently to participate in Aalmi Urdu Mushaira and other literary functions. Bekal Utsahi, Meraj Faizabadi, Raees Ansari, Hanif, Akhger from US, Naushad Momin the editor of “Mizgahn,” Nuzhat Sultana and some other penmen are in Karachi now-a-days. They […]