KARACHI (November 25 2007): On the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) in collaboration with the Karachi Press Club (KPC) observed a sit-in outside the KPC, here on Saturday. Journalists belonging to both KUJs (Burna and Dastori), CPNE, ATJ and other bodies attended the protest. Journalists were carrying […]
KARACHI (November 25 2007): The third Karachi International Book Fair will be held here at the Expo Centre from November 30. The five-day event is being organised by the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association (PPBA) in collaboration with the National Book Foundation, Government of Pakistan. According to Syed Shahid Ahmed, one of the organisers, prominent […]
Born on December 8, 1943, in the Indian state of Manawader (Kathiawar) in a liberal and enlightened family, Sabihuddin Ghousi, President of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) and a senior journalist continues to be a giant for present-day journalists. It is not just his writings that provoke people to think but his willingness to take […]
KARACHI: Almost 80 percent of sites for billboards on Shahrah-e-Faisal have been sold by the Local Taxes Department (CDGK) even though this main artery was meant to be hoarding free. The department arranged an auction at CDGK headquarters Civic Center last week for the 75 sites on both sides of Shahrah-e-Faisal from the airport to […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists on Saturday continued protest against the curbs on media and demanded freedom of press, as access to information is one of the fundamental rights. Journalists arranged a sit-in in front of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club on a call of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ). Civil society activists, lawyers and students joined the protest to […]
MIRPURKHAS – A senior journalist and correspondent of daily Mirpurkhas, Zubair Ahmad Mujahid, was shot dead by unknown assailants, when he was on his way to house at Satellite Town along with his colleague photographer Wahid Pahalwani on the bike near Marhaba Lawn at scheme no 11, Satellite town here on late Friday from the […]
Owners of at least 60 shops dealing in CDs, VCSs and other ‘objectionable’ items closed their business in the Karkhano Bazaar on the Torkham Road, Peshawar after they received warnings from militants. The Karkhano Bazaar, having some 25 plazas, is famous for smuggled foreign goods. According to shopkeepers, they had received threatening letters in October […]
Zubair Ahmed Mujahid, a senior journalist and correspondent for a leading Urdu daily, was shot dead by unknown assailants in Satellite Town, Mirpurkhas late on Friday night (November 23, 2007) while he was on his way home. He was riding a motorbike along with a photo journalist, Wahid Pahalwani, when some unidentified armed men shot […]
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