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Daily Archives: November 9, 2010

Focus on environmental journalism stressed

Karachi: Sindh Minister for Environment and Alternative Energy, Shaikh Muhammad Afzal, said that due focus of media on environment-related topics, knowledge of people about different environmental problems is increasing. This he said while talking to a delegation of students of Mass Communication, who called on him on Monday in his office. He said that the […]


All the news unfit to air

The writer is a former vice-chairman of the HRCP and has spent over three decades in advertising [email protected] “The media is a dragon that needs to be fed every day.” Those at the receiving end of the electronic media’s insatiable hunger for stories, half or fully baked, would whole-heartedly agree – except that the remark […]


Jang-Geo Group reporters, anchors termed agents of Israel, Russia, India

GILGIT: The ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Monday came under severe attack in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly from the opposition benches for unleashing a relentless assault on the Jang Media Group for “attempting to dislodge the government”. Wazir Hassan, a PPP lawmaker from Rondu, speaking on a point of order, asked the government to put […]


All the news unfit to air

The writer is a former vice-chairman of the HRCP and has spent over three decades in advertising [email protected] “The media is a dragon that needs to be fed every day.” Those at the receiving end of the electronic media’s insatiable hunger for stories, half or fully baked, would whole-heartedly agree – except that the remark […]


PU VC forms body to probe sexual harassment allegations

LAHORE: Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran has formed a fact-finding committee to probe the alleged sexual harassment involving Prof Dr Iftikhar Baloch. The four-member committee is headed by Faculty of Islamic Studies Dean Prof Dr Hafiz Mahmood Akhtar, its secretary is Additional Registrar Prof Dr Aurangzeb Alamgir while the other members are Principal College […]


‘Shoddily treating women neither Baloch nor Pakistani custom’

Condemning the forcible breaking and entering into a family suite in the Parliamentarians’ Lodges, PML-Q lawmaker Marvi Memon said that treating women in such a shoddy manner is neither a Baloch nor Pakistani custom. The PML-Q MNA said that she was duly allotted the family suite by the National Assembly Secretariat on January 15 last […]


Chief minister Punjab underlines IT promotion

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that promotion of information technology is the need of the hour and the Punjab government is implementing a comprehensive programme in this regard. He also said IT labs have been set up in 4,200 schools for the first time in the country’s history with the co-operation of […]


APNS condoles death of chief of National Advertisers

KARACHI: President of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society Hameed Haroon and Secretary General Sarmad Ali, on behalf of the office bearers and members of the APNS, have expressed profound grief over the sad demise of M Mushtaq, the managing director of the National Advertisers, Karachi, said a press release here on Monday. He had rich […]


Safma Pakistan chapter office-bearers elected

ISLAMABAD: The National Executive Body (NEB) on Monday elected Nusrat Javed as President and Sarmad Manzoor as General Secretary of South Asian Free Media Association (Safma) Pakistan. The Executive Body also chose senior media persons Zahid Hussain, Agha Nasir, Iftikhar Ahmed, Babar Ayaz and Shahzada Zulfiqar as the Vice Presidents of the Pakistan chapter of […]