Karachi: President Karachi Press Club (KPC) Tahir Hasan Khan and Secretary Moosa Kaleem have condemned in the most unambiguous of terms the armed attack on the staff and members of the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday evening and have asked the government of Sindh to take immediate action against the perpetrators. They said that it […]
By Saadia Qamar KARACHI: The sound of the sitar never ceases to captivate one’s senses; once the first chords are struck, a surreal and dreamlike calm takes over. On Saturday afternoon, the Tehzeeb Foundation held a press briefing for a select group of journalists at Cafe 76 in Old Clifton, to announce the upcoming Tehzeeb […]
LAHORE: The South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA), on Tuesday, organised a seminar, titled “21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers”, in connection with the Press Freedom Day. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s Secretary General IA Rehman, Senior Analyst Professor Dr Hassan Askari Rizvi, LUMS political science professor Rasool Bakhsh Raees, senior journalist Arif Nizami, […]
LAHORE: Speakers at a seminar to mark the Press Freedom Day say the 11 years dictatorial regime of Gen Ziaul Haq was the worst era for working journalists fraught with illegal confinement, torture and life threat for expressing truth. The seminar “21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers” was held by the South Asian Free […]
On the night following the death of Osama bin Laden, a well-known television news anchor seemed to confuse everybody by apparently denying that any operation in Abbottabad ever took place. He said the interior of the house where bin Laden was living was not very posh; that there were no signs of collateral damage and […]
By Badar Alam The press in Pakistan has changed enormously over the last two decades but the threats to it have not diminished. If anything, they have multiplied and become more complex than in the past. Before the 1990s, the main, or perhaps the single most important, source of threats to the freedom of the […]
Summary Urdu Newsletter April 29 To May 05, 2011 Date 4/29/2011 Download ppf newsletter vol 9 no-17.pdf
Dr Rakhshinda Perveen The proposed tax break for certain groups of Pakistani women can emerge not only as one of the means of freedom from stigma and servitude for these women, but also allow sustenance to many women who are overworked and underpaid. The empowerment of women has emerged as one of the cattiest slogans […]
By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: A retired judge who is assisting the Supreme Court in reaching answers to a presidential reference conceded on Tuesday that Lahore High Court chief justice Maulvi Mushtaq Hussain, who headed the bench which handed down the controversial death sentence to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had harboured bias against the former prime minister. […]
Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: A day after Pakistan was seemingly taken by complete surprise as the United States flew helicopters from Afghanistan right into a compound in Abbottabad and carried out an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan expressed its ‘deep concern’ and ‘reservations’ about the manner in which the Government of the United States […]
By Azam Khan ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari accepted the resignation of Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, who filed it from his office as federal minister for inter-provincial coordination. The President, however, directed him to continue in office until the ongoing session of the upper house of the Parliament concluded. Rabbani resigned from his portfolio in […]
LAHORE: A public interest litigation company Muhammad and Ahmad, through its chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique, moved a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC), requesting a permanent ban on the access of the social networking website Facebook, for again holding an objectionable and blasphemous contest called the “2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day-May 20, 2011.” The […]
By Masroor Afzal Pasha KARACHI: Journalists have always been facing variety of pressures during discharge of their duties while their lives remain at high-risk due to the non-professional attitude of pseudo-anchors in electronic media. These views were shared by professional journalists and speakers at a seminar entitled ‘Free Press -Free World’, organised by the Karachi […]
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