Is is time the PPP’s Sindh leadership owned up to its petty war on Jang as well as Geo and ARY. While the channels are back on air, no sane mind will believe that the party workers acted on their own, pressured the cable operators to pull the plug and burnt copies of the paper […]
By Adiah Afraz No matter what you say, I kind of feel sorry for my government. And before you start hurling your shoes at me, and I start blaming Geo TV in turn, please just look at these people. Our president doesn’t know what a flood is and our information minister has shoe blindness. The […]
LAHORE, Aug 11: A number of civil society representatives on Wednesday underscored the need for creating harmony and peace in the country so as to have a secular and welfare state as envisioned by the Quaid-i-Azam. In a walk-cum-rally organised by the Awami Jamhoori Forum (AJF) here, speakers alleged that the opponents of Pakistan ignored […]
Is is time the PPP’s Sindh leadership owned up to its petty war on Jang as well as Geo and ARY. While the channels are back on air, no sane mind will believe that the party workers acted on their own, pressured the cable operators to pull the plug and burnt copies of the paper […]
RAWALPINDI, Aug 11: The Lahore High Court has suspended the dismissal of a Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) official. Justice Chaudhry Mohammad Tariq while admitting the appeal of Sohail Najeeb, a joint director at the information system technology department (ISTD) of the commission, for regular hearing issued notices to the secretary ministry of […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), the All Pakistan Newspapers Association (APNS), Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) and Pakistan Hawkers Union strongly condemned attempts to browbeat the media by acts of forcing cable operators to block TV channels and regretted such conduct against the media during the tenure of a democratic government, says a […]
ISLAMABAD – Dr Shahid Masood, a journalist, Thursday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the closure of transmission of some private TV channels. The petition has been filed under the Article 184 (3) of the Constitution with respect to the enforcement of fundamental rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of Islamic Republic of […]
LAHORE: Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday ordered the federal information minister, the Punjab governor, the Pemra chairman and the Punjab chief secretary to immediately lift the ban on transmission of Geo News and other private news channels. While issuing an order on a petition moved by Ashraf Gondal, Secretary Alfizan […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Wednesday the government had no role in blocking two television channels’ transmission, saying it was the result of a tug-of-war between two groups of cable operators. Replying to a volley of questions after briefing the media persons about the latest flood situation and the […]
ISLAMABAD: The media persons from across the country continued their protest in the strongest terms against the blockage of the transmission of Geo News and other channels and against the attacks on the offices of the Jang Group and burning of copies of the Jang and The News on Wednesday. In Islamabad, the journalists gathered […]
ISLAMABAD: The international media continued to pour criticism and condemnation against the uncalled for closure of the popular Pakistani news channel Geo News for airing shoe-throwing at Zardari by an aged Pakistani-origin Briton in Birmingham during a PPP meeting on August 8. The government is also reported to have banned another private news channel for […]
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