* Journalists to be trained for election reporting PESHAWAR: Intermedia, a Pakistani media development organisation, and the British High Commission (BHC) conducted a series of training workshops on issue-based media coverage of elections for print journalists across Pakistan in August 2007 in all four provinces. According to a statement issued here on Friday, the workshops […]
ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi/Islamabad Union of Journalists on Monday held a protest demonstration in front of the Supreme Court Building against the torture on the son of senior journalist Shakeel Turabi. The RIUJ staged a strong protest in front of the Supreme Court to express their anger and hatred over the gruesome incident demanding award of punishment […]
AFTER May 12 – the day Karachi experienced brutal carnage – a number of conferences were held in the city to bring various political parties together. I had a chance to attend a few. It was surprising, in fact shocking, to see that in spite of a sizable presence of women in legislative bodies, their […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has issued a notice to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and a private TV channel on a petition by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) seeking action against the channel for airing defamatory material against the institution under its programme “Gumnam”. Justice Syed Hamid Ali Shah after preliminary […]
MUZAFFARGARH, Sept 14: People from Sanawan have started shifting to undisclosed locations after an alleged killer of five people sent them a message that he would kill them sooner or later. Despite his flagrant warnings, police have failed to arrest the suspect who killed five people of the locality on Sept 8. Dawn learnt accused […]
LAHORE: The Punjab government has served a Show Cause Notice (SCN) on two stage dancers, Nargis and Dedar, on charges of indulging in ‘vulgar, obscene and indecent dramatic activities’ while performing their dances in a stage drama ‘Sorry Sir’ at Mehfil theatre here. The notice is reportedly a first of its kind while before actresses […]
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