Karachi Nov. 29 (PPI): The Second Annual PPF-Aslam Ali Press Freedom Award 2007 was awarded on November 28, 2007 to Mukesh Rupeta, correspondent in Jacobabad of The News and “Geo TV”. The award, instituted by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), with support of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognises a person, organisation or […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: Pakistan has slipped down two slots to the 136th position on the Human Development Index (HDI), which was released by United Nations on Wednesday, despite modest improvement in its social indicators. In the South Asian region, only Bangladesh and Nepal were behind Pakistan, ranked 134th last year. The mortality rate for those […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 28: Children at a function here on Wednesday expressed concern over denial of their rights and said they should be provided education, health, safety from abuses and freedom of expression so that they could raise their voice for peace and security. The views were expressed by working children in a speech competition on […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: A private petition was filed in the post-PCO Supreme Court on Wednesday praying that amendments made to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinance, 2002, on Nov 3 which put curbs on the electronic media be scrapped and the closure of private television channels be declared illegal. A similar petition is being […]
LAHORE, Nov 29: An Indian woman who has spent 17 long years in Pakistan will finally board a plane on Friday to reunite with her family in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. “Yellamilli Kejiamani was brought to Pakistan in 1990 by one Riaz from Kuwait where both of them had been working,” says Rao Abid […]
ISLAMABAD – Journalists’ protest against curbs on free media continued on Tuesday as hundreds of media persons and civil rights activists staged a protest demonstration in front of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club. ‘Fight for independent media will never cease’, ‘we never accept black laws’, were the slogans chanted by enraged journalists. To exhibit their solidarity […]
HYDERABAD, Nov 27: The Hyderabad press club set up a protest camp on the footpath of the club road to condemn the ban on private TV channels and Pemra ordinance. A large number of journalists, led by the press club president Khalid Khokhar, vice president Hameedur Rehman, Iqbal Mallah and others staged a sit-in at […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
PESHAWAR (November 28 2007): Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) Tuesday set up a protest camp against curbs on media imposed by the government after imposition of emergency in the country on November 3. The curbs imposed after bringing amendments in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and Press and Publication Ordinance (PPO) to gag […]
Minhaj Barna, who is regarded as among the pioneers of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) and the Pakistan Federation of Union of Journalists (PFUJ), now has an Urdu poetry book to his credit. The collection, titled Marssiya Chauthay Sutoon ka describes the tragedy of those who face with a dictatorship in their country. Although, […]
KARACHI, Nov 27: On the concluding day of the second phase of its campaign against emergency and curbs on the media, the PFUJ will observe ‘black day’ on Wednesday. It said that black flags would be hoisted atop all media offices in the country and journalists would wear black armbands during their duty hours. Meanwhile, […]
ISLAMABAD (November 28 2007): Senate acting Chairman Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali and Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad have extended warm felicitations to the newly-elected office-bearers of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) with the feeling that the success of these editors in the election would help to further improve and strengthen government-media relations. […]
QUETTA (November 28 2007): A local journalist Riaz Mengal has surfaced after escaping from custody of kidnappers after about two months from mountainous areas near Noshki. Addressing a press conference here at the press club, Riaz Mengal said that some kidnappers had picked him on October 4 last from Khuzdar and shifted to some unknown […]
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