On 18 July 2007, police stopped two senior journalists and a cameraman from entering the North Waziristan Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan that border Afghanistan. Dr. Shahid Masood, the host of a locally popular TV show, and Rahimullah Yusufzai, the executive editor of “The News” in Peshawar, were en route […]
Title Urdu Newsletter July 13 To July 20, 2007 Date 7/20/2007 Download ppf newsletter jul.pdf
PESHAWAR: Authorities stopped two senior journalists at the Khajuri checkpoint the other day and didn’t allow them to enter North Waziristan to perform their professional duties. Dr Shahid Masood, the host of a widely watched Geo TV programme “Meray Mutabiq”, and Rahimullah Yusufzai, the executive editor of The News in Peshawar, were on their way […]
If TV takes over half of newspaper-people’s territory, and makes their mastery of the medium of their trade an object of speculation, this should make for a big enough change in Pakistani print media to excite interest. Intizar Hussain poked at the question, in a way, when he wondered if writing to please oneself (or […]
KARACHI: The Habib Bank Ltd denied on Thursday allegations by the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl that it transferred funds on behalf of charities supporting “terrorist organisations”. Mariane Pearl filed a lawsuit at a US court on Wednesday against Al Qaeda, other radical groups and Habib Bank Ltd over the 2002 […]
ISLAMABAD, July 19: Like any other capital and major city in the world, Islamabad and Rawalpindi are also under the spell of the Harry Potter magic and waiting crazily for the last book of the series that would tell which of the characters in the story dies. As the countdown begins, this well-kept secret will […]
Reporters Without Borders supports the US lawsuit that Mariane Pearl has brought against Al Qaeda members, a Pakistani bank and an Islamic charity for their alleged role in the January 2002 murder of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. She said in a statement: “I am trying to find out the truth of […]
BADIN:A photojournalists “training workshop was organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation(PPF) here on Thursday. The general consensus at the workshop was that the photojourÂnalists suffer a lot as they risk their lives while carrying out professional duties. Addressing the workshop, senÂior press photographer Raza Haider said pictures published in newspaÂpers depict political and socio-ecoÂnomic conditions […]
Nawabshah, July 19: District Nazim Faryal Talpur took serious notice of the reports of sexual assault on nursing students by a doctor and paramedics at the Nawabshah Medical College Hospital (NMCH) and directed the chairperson of Women Centre to provide legal help to the victims. The nazim told Dawn that she was shocked to learn […]
SHIKARPUR, July 19: Three people including a woman have been killed while another injured in two different incidents in the district. Liaquat Khoso and Haleema w/o Sikandar Khoso were killed by their relative Rahib Khoso on the pretext of karo-kari in Khaliq Dino Wah village in the jurisdiction of Hamayoon police on Thursday. Hamayoon police […]
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