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 […]
KARACHI: Sindh Inter-provincial Coordination and Antiques Minister Makhdoon Jameel-uz-Zaman has asked media and civil society to play their due role to raise awareness about public issues. In a statement issued in connection with the World Press Freedom Day, he emphasised upon the significant role of media in ensuring dissemination of correct information about the government’s […]
Babar Ayaz In Pakistan, affirmative action is needed to defend freedom of expression, of which freedom of the media is just a part. It is about time we struggle for it without any ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ as freedom has no boundaries. “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and one, and only one […]
SLAMABAD: Pemra chairman Mushtaq Malik on Monday confirmed that he had proceeded on further leave but strongly denied that he had visited the presidency and any pressure had been exerted on him to leave the country. In a denial issued by Mushtaq Malik, he said: “Apropos, news items published in The News and the daily […]
I WOULD like to highlight the misuse of cellphones and menace of fraud through text messages which is on the rise. The government has recently announced rules for issuance of SIMs and IMEI numbers of cellphones. The very next morning people received messages saying: “Dear customer, sim agar aap kay nam hai to confirm ke […]
By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: PPP stalwart Senator Raza Rabbani resigned on Monday as federal minister for inter-provincial coordination in protest against his party leadership’s decision to make PML-Q a partner in the government, a source in the ruling party told Dawn. The source said that Mr Rabbani had handed over his resignation directly to President […]
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