PESHAWAR, Dec 24: Two CD shops were blown up in Surezai area of the city early on Monday. A police official said that threatening letters had been sent by unidentified people to owners of the CD centres a few weeks ago asking them to close their business or face the consequences. The Badhber police said […]
KARACHI, PAKISTAN — It’s the height of election season, and Pakistani television audiences might expect the airwaves to be crackling with live campaign coverage, argumentative talk shows and sharp-tongued political commentary. Instead, two weeks before this country’s most hotly contested parliamentary vote in years, broadcast outlets operate under a stringent code of conduct imposed by […]
ISLAMABAD: A small sized paper Christmas tree, was placed upright in front of the camp of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) where journalists hold regular, protest meetings against curbs on media after imposition of emergency. Present in the tree-placing ceremony were academics from the Quaid-e-Azam University, Prof. A H Nayyar, the Secretary General, PFUJ […]
KARACHI, PAKISTAN — It’s the height of election season, and Pakistani television audiences might expect the airwaves to be crackling with live campaign coverage, argumentative talk shows and sharp-tongued political commentary. Instead, two weeks before this country’s most hotly contested parliamentary vote in years, broadcast outlets operate under a stringent code of conduct imposed by […]
* Asks channels to use time-delay technology to filter content * Relates airtime with performance of political parties KARACHI: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Chairman Iftikhar Rasheed said on Monday that the authority had barred television channels from live broadcasting of political rallies. He told a meeting of the Pakistan Broadcasters’ Association (PBA) that […]
LAHORE – Waqt television of the Nawa-i-Waqt group is going to start its regular transmission from Tuesday (today) on the occasion of 132nd Birth Anniversary of Founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Waqt TV will telecast news, views and discussions on current affairs, economic, sports and showbiz news as well as elections news. […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 24: Frequent bomb explosions in CD shops have forced most of the people dealing in the business to switch over to other trades. During 2007, CD shops were the top target of the militants in the province. Most of the explosions took place in pre-dawn hours damaging the shops and equipment. Most of […]
PESHAWAR: Four more CD shops were destroyed in two consecutive bomb blasts in the Surizai village in the outskirts of Peshawar early on Monday morning. The first explosion occurred at 4:26 am while the second bomb went off at 4:28 am in Surizai Payan, damaging three CD shops owned by Gohar Ali, Gul Rahman and […]
ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: A woman was axed to death by her brother’s rivals here on Monday. Police said Matloob had run into a brawl with his rivals in Pind Paryan area last night over some issue. On Monday morning when he left home for his farmland along with some of his relatives in a tractor, […]
VEHARI, Dec 24: A man allegedly subjected his wife to severe torture and shaved her head when she refused to earn money through prostitution. The incident took place at Basti Ghareebabad, Arain Wahin, Mailsi tehsil on Sunday. Nawaz Mai (40), flanked by her mother Janan Mai and brother Haq Nawaz, told journalists that she got […]
* Says Pemra Ordinance amendments, code of conduct are clear signal expression stifled, information under state-control LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged election monitoring bodies and observers, domestic and international, to take note of the events leading up to the elections, and not confine their findings to the polling day alone. […]
LAHORE, Dec 24: The process leading to the January elections holds no promise of any transition to democracy. On the contrary, the elections are being used to sideline critical issues affecting the fundamental rights of people, including the ruination of the judicial system of the country, says a press release issued here on Monday by […]
LAHORE – Waqt television of the Nawa-i-Waqt group is going to start its regular transmission from Tuesday (today) on the occasion of 132nd Birth Anniversary of Founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Waqt TV will telecast news, views and discussions on current affairs, economic, sports and showbiz news as well as elections news. […]
LAHORE, Dec 24: The cell-phone users exchanged over 1.2 billion short messages on Eidul Azha. A Telecom source told Dawn on Monday that the cell-phone users, whose number had touched 73 million, exchanged over 1.2 billion short massages to greet their dear ones during the Eid holidays. Besides, they also made over 10 million calls […]
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