* RSF calls for repealing ordinances on print and broadcast media * Govt rejects RSF report terming it unrealistic and unreasonable PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: International media rights group Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) said on Wednesday that media was “not free” to provide coverage of the elections scheduled for February 18 because of “a climate of censorship” that […]
Despite President Pervez Musharraf’s reassuring statements, Pakistan’s media are not free to provide proper coverage of the legislative elections scheduled for 18 February because of a climate of censorship that is sustained by the permanent threat of fines, closures of news media and arrests of journalists, Reporters Without Borders said today. The government has introduced […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists continued protest against the media curbs on the 66th consecutive day on Wednesday. The protest started on November 3, when a state of emergency was imposed in the country. Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Secretary General Mazhar Abbas said the PIMRA had no legal value, its formation was unconstitutional and it had […]
MINGORA, Jan 9: Security forces on Wednesday pounded with artillery positions occupied by militants in the upper reaches of the Swat valley and claimed to have arrested 18 suspected militants. Officials said that they had arrested a doctor suspected of having links with the militants, adding that he had treated some injured militants. Artillery fire […]
DADU, Jan 9: Journalists took out a procession here on Wednesday to protest the registration of cases against eight newsmen. The cases were registered for the journalists’ alleged involvement in riots that broke out after the assassination of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto. The protestors said that false cases had been registered against Jamil Ahmed […]
PESHAWAR, Jan 9: Owners of various video centres in the city on Wednesday received threatening letters, asking them to close their businesses. The owner of a video centre in the Sufaid Dheri area said that militants identifying themselves as local Taliban had asked him to stop dealing in CDs and video cassettes business. They threatened […]
KARACHI, Jan 9: A Dawn staffer was deprived of cash in front of his Gulistan-i-Jauhar house late on Wednesday night by two muggers. Senior journalist Omair Saqib was waylaid by two young men on a motorbike as he got out of his friend’s car after a short drive in the neighbourhood. Mr Saqib’s house is […]
LAHORE – A man strangled his 20-year-old wife on the suspicion of her illicit relations with his elder brother here in Hanjarwal Area, police said on Wednesday. The police said that Shahnaz Bibi was strangled by her husband Umar Farooq at their residence in Thokar Niaz Baig locality. The killer managed to escape from the […]
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