30 | April | 2007 | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

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Daily Archives: April 30, 2007

‘Journalists can’t change the world’

* Media forum discusses pressing issues concerning SAARC journalists By Malik Siraj Akbar CHENNAI: “We journalists believe we can change the world. We can’t,” said veteran Indian journalist Nehal Singh during a two-week long media forum, ‘The Summer Academy’, organised by the German-based International Institute of Journalism (IIJ) from April 16 till April 28. “Why […]


Girl among three dead over ‘honour’

KASUR, April 29: A girl and two men lost their lives on Sunday while another girl was seriously injured in `honour-related’ incidents. Reports said Muhammad Salim suspected that his twin sisters – Shakeela and Nabeela (16) – were having relations, while their father Muhammad Ishaq thought they were innocent. On early Sunday morning, Salim attacked […]


Police in Pakistani Kashmir harass television station employees to force withdrawal of news story

MIRPUR:Police in the city of Mirpur, the commercial centre of Pakistani administrated Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), harassed the staff of the bureau of Aapna Des, a Bradford-based, Pahari-language television channel. The police wanted the channel to stop showing news reports regarding the withdrawal of official facilities provided by the government to an AJK Supreme […]