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Urdu Newsletter Dec 07 To Dec 14, 2007

Title Urdu Newsletter Dec 07 To Dec 14, 2007 Date 12/7/2007 Download ppf newsletter vol 5 no 48.pdf


=> SWABI, Dec 6: Five CD and video shops were blown u

SWABI, Dec 6: Five CD and video shops were blown up in Chota Lahor, about 15 kilometres from the district headquarters, before dawn on Thursday. Official sources said that explosions also damaged two other shops and adjacent buildings. A leaflet in Urdu distributed a few days ago asked shop-owners to close their businesses or face […]


=> MULTAN (December 07 2007): A number of lawyers, jo

MULTAN (December 07 2007): A number of lawyers, journalists and policemen sustained injuries in a clash at Chowk Kutchery on Thursday when lawyers broke all barriers and moved to Chowk Kutchery for staging a demonstration. The Demonstrators also damaged two police vehicles and slapped on the face of DSPs. Police resorted to baton charge to […]


=> KARACHI: Mast FM 103, a local radio station, resum

KARACHI: Mast FM 103, a local radio station, resumed its transmission at 4:00 p.m. Thursday as the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) returned their transmitters and other equipment. The station had been non-functional since the Sindh police and PEMRA officials raided their Karachi studios in November and seized all their broadcasting equipment. Administrative in-charge […]


=> ISLAMABAD: Website of private TV channel Aaj TV ha

ISLAMABAD: Website of private TV channel Aaj TV has been hacked. Aaj TV administration has claimed that hackers have hacked their website and altered the result of the survey regarding curbs of the government on media. Private TV said that according to survey 68.58 per cent voters have voted against the restrictions on media. Hacking […]


=> LAHORE – A delegation of newspapers editors headed

LAHORE – A delegation of newspapers editors headed by President Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors and Editor daily The Nation Arif Nizami visited the protest camp set up by the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) at Lahore Press Club to express solidarity with the journalists against government curbs on media. The delegation comprised former President […]


=> LAHORE: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors

LAHORE: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors has expressed solidarity with the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) and vowed to fight for the freedom of press. Editors of various newspapers accompanied by journalists visited the Lahore Press Club on Thursday and expressed their resolve to fight for the freedom and independence of press and media. […]


=> ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Information Minister Nisar A

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Information Minister Nisar A Memon on Thursday urged media bodies to call off their strike as a confidence-building measure (CBM) as the government was in touch with all the media organisations to resolve media-related issues. “The media is free and its freedom would stay. The government is in touch with all the media […]


=> LAHORE – A delegation of newspapers editors headed

LAHORE – A delegation of newspapers editors headed by President Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors and Editor daily The Nation Arif Nizami visited the protest camp set up by the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ) at Lahore Press Club to express solidarity with the journalists against government curbs on media. The delegation comprised former President […]


=> LAHORE (December 07 2007): Punjab Caretaker Chief

LAHORE (December 07 2007): Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Ejaz Nisar has said the setting-up of journalist colonies in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan and other cities of the province is an important step towards the welfare of journalists enjoying better residential facilities in these colonies. He directed authorities concerned to accelerate the process of provision of basic […]


=> SUKKUR: Scores of journalists took out a protest r

SUKKUR: Scores of journalists took out a protest rally and observed hunger strike in front of the Jacobabad Press Club on Thursday and demanded immediate arrest of culprits involved in a dacoity at journalist Mukesh Rupeta’s house some five months ago. The protesting journalists, led by president press club Pervaiz Abro, while shouting slogans against […]


=> KARACHI, Dec 6: Abdul Hameed Nizamani, elder broth

KARACHI, Dec 6: Abdul Hameed Nizamani, elder brother of Dawn reporter Hassan Mansoor, died of cardiac arrest here on Thursday afternoon. He was 57. Mr Nizamani had the fatal heart attack while working in his real estate office in Lyari. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. He leaves […]


=> The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon all members of the civil society to observe the Universal Human Rights Day on December 10 as a ‘black day’. The worst human rights abuses were recorded in 2007 and the rights of ordinary people have been violated by the government with impunity, said a […]


=> ISLAMABAD: Website of private TV channel Aaj TV ha

ISLAMABAD: Website of private TV channel Aaj TV has been hacked. Aaj TV administration has claimed that hackers have hacked their website and altered the result of the survey regarding curbs of the government on media. Private TV said that according to survey 68.58 per cent voters have voted against the restrictions on media. Hacking […]