KARACHI: Transmission of Geo TV was blocked in some parts of the country and copies of The News and the daily Jang burnt in a few areas of Karachi and Sindh on Sunday as the media group gave coverage to the hurling of shoes at President Asif Ali Zardari during his party address in Birmingham. […]
The transmissions of Pakistan’s two leading private TV news channels “Geo TV” and “ARY News” were blocked and the copies of newspapers, “The News” and “Daily Jang” were burnt in Karachi and some other parts of Sindh province, allegedly by activists of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Sunday, August 8, 2010. This anti […]
By Hajrah Mumtaz THAT the investigative and reportage role played by the news media can bring about substantive, visible changes in real situations is a fact that most state administrations have had to accept. In any country where the news media are free to even a relative degree, state and other actors operate under the […]
They say guilt is absent when an act is justified. Today I felt guilty because I could not justify sipping branded bottled water as our car moved some kilometers beyond Khan Garh. People from this fertile land were without any kind of drinking water as we were asked to halt by army personnel on the […]
ISLAMABAD: Independence of the judiciary and media could not be utilised at its full potential, unless the roles of feudals, clerics and the army could not be defined, Abid Hassan Manto said. Manto, a veteran Marxist leader and a renowned lawyer was speaking at a Meet-the-Press, organised by the National Press Club (NPC) on Sunday. […]
By Hajrah Mumtaz THAT the investigative and reportage role played by the news media can bring about substantive, visible changes in real situations is a fact that most state administrations have had to accept. In any country where the news media are free to even a relative degree, state and other actors operate under the […]
By Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has banned inter-city movement of 30 ulema during Ramazan in the province, Dawn has learnt. Sources said DCOs of Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur and other districts had been notified about the banned ulema, including Khateeb of Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz and Maulana Shabir Hussain Hafizabadi. DCOs have been […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have strongly condemned the burning of copies of The News and the daily Jang, and blocking of Geo TV transmission. PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif said in a statement that the plot aimed at bringing the media under pressure was meant […]
By Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: The Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) is denying jobs to 13 women candidates on the 10 per cent quota reserved for women from Punjab. On May 22, 2007, the federal government had announced in a memorandum its decision “to reserve 10 per cent quota for employment of women to all posts […]
Karachi: A young woman was strangled to death on Sunday by her in-laws for marrying her brother-in-law; a case was reported at the Quaidabad police limits. According to the police, Naheed Khan (aged 30) was strangulated to death in Muslimabad Colony No-2, Quiadabad by her in-laws; in this regard an FIR was lodged on complaint […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have strongly condemned the burning of copies of The News and the daily Jang, and blocking of Geo TV transmission. PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif said in a statement that the plot aimed at bringing the media under pressure was meant […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalist community across the country protested against the burning of copies of The News and Daily Jang, and blocking of Geo TV transmission in the so-called democratic era. Various press clubs held emergency meetings to discuss the acts against media freedom. Journalists vowed that curbs on the media would not be tolerated at […]
PESHAWAR: Hawkers and cable operators have strongly protested against the incidents of setting on fire copies of The News and Jang and shutting of Geo telecasts in some areas. Hawkers held protest rallies in some cities of Sindh and urged the government to desist from such actions that endangered their lives and livelihood. Central president […]
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