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Daily Archives: May 5, 2007

Urdu Newsletter April 27 to May 04 April, 2007

Summary Urdu Newsletter April 27 to May 04 April, 2007 Date 5/5/2007 Download ppf urdu newsletter.pdf


Palijo slams ban on his party’s journal

HYDERABAD, May 4: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo has condemned the ban on his party’s magazine “Kaapri” as illegal and unconstitutional and said that the decision would be challenged in court. The party would launch a membership drive across the province from May 13 and later a protest movement against the division of Thatta, […]


Pemra to devise rules for TV on cellphone

LAHORE, May 4: The controversy over granting a licence for TV mobile service to a cellphone company has finally convinced the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to devise new rules to address such issues in future in the fast growing telecom business. An official of the authority told this correspondent on Friday that to […]


APHR condemns attacks on press freedom

PESHAWAR: The Alliance for Protection of Human Rights (APHR), a group of civil society organisations, staged a protest camp to condemn the attacks on press freedom and to show solidarity with journalists in their struggle for reporting events and expressing opinions freely. The APHR, consisting of Shirkat Gah, Aurat Foundation, Human Rights Management and Development […]


Committee for Protection of Journalists condoles death of freelance photographer killed in Charsadda bomb attack

KARACHI, May 05: CPJ expressed sorrow over the death of a freelance photographer killed in the suicide attack on Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao in Charsadda. 22- year old Mehboob Khan had recently started his career in journalism and provided photographs for national publications. Three more journalists were injured in the blast. They were ATV camera […]


Blasts blow up seven CD shops in Charsadda

By Gulzar Ahmad Khan and Iqbal Hoti CHARSADDA/MARDAN, May 4: Two bomb blasts in Charsadda destroyed seven CD shops, a cycle workshop and a hair-cutting salon on Friday. Another two bombs went off near the main gate of a school in a Gujarat village in Mardan. The first explosion occurred at the Ayaz Market in […]


Militants smash cassette players, camera phones in KHAR

KHAR, May 5: (AFP) Hundreds of militants Saturday smashed car cassette players, camera cell phones and ordered tribesmen to grow beards in a Pakistani tribal area, witnesses and officials said. Some 300 armed bearded men took dozens of cassette players from cars and snatched mobile phones with built-in cameras and destroyed them at two main […]


Badin Press Club’s President and renowned journalist Abdullah Memon passes away

BADIN: President, Badin Press Club and renowned journalist, Abdullah Memon passed away on Saturday, May 5, 2007 of a heart attack at 1.35 a.m. He has been buried in his family graveyard, Shah Qadri, Badin. Journalists, citizens, and civil society organizations attended his funeral. Memon had worked for the Sindhi newspaper ‘Daily Ibrat’ for 35 […]