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Daily Archives: June 16, 2011

JI’s adjournment motion in Senate

ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) senators on Wednesday submitted an adjournment motion in the Senate Secretariat against excesses on journalists. In the adjournment motion, the JI parliamentarians mentioned brutal killings of Saleem Shahzad, Wali Khan Babar and threats being given to journalists on reporting incidents like Akhrotabad killings and shooting of a youth in Karachi by Rangers. […]


Journalists walk out of PA

PESHAWAR: Journalists on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to express their anguish over the murder of senior journalist Syed Salim Shehzad and asked the government to take to task the responsible people at the earliest. Later, provincial ministers Syed Aqil Shah, Wajid Ali Khan and opposition members came out for talks […]


Journalist bodies ask govt to ensure safety of journalists

PESHAWAR: The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RWB), in conjunction with the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ), and the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ), has called on the government to “urgently ensure the safety” of journalists and all those working in the media after the death […]


Journalists stage sit-in to protest Saleem’s killing

ISLAMABAD: Addressing a sit-in by the journalists in front of the Parliament House, Pakistan Muslim League N leader Mian Nawaz Sharif termed the Saleem Ahehza’s killing the whole nation’s murder and demanded the authorities that the perpetrators be exposed and brought to the book. The journalistic cadre Wednesday staged a sit-in to protest the horrendous […]


Journalists’ protest: Firdous cancels Cabinet briefing

ALI RAZA & NAVEED BUTT Islamabad: The sit-in of journalists against killing and threats to their colleagues on Wednesday forced the Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan to cancel the Cabinet press briefing. Journalists boycotted the proceeding of National Assembly and Senate and staged a protest demonstration and sit-in outside the […]


APNS denies exerting pressure on government to clear dues

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has strongly rejected a news item that appeared in a section of the press maligning the APNS for exerting pressure on the federal government to clear the 10-year-old dues of advertising agencies. In a press release issued on Wednesday, the APNS stated that the news item that appeared in […]


JI’s adjournment motion in Senate

ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) senators on Wednesday submitted an adjournment motion in the Senate Secretariat against excesses on journalists. In the adjournment motion, the JI parliamentarians mentioned brutal killings of Saleem Shahzad, Wali Khan Babar and threats being given to journalists on reporting incidents like Akhrotabad killings and shooting of a youth in Karachi by Rangers. […]


Journalists walk out of PA

PESHAWAR: Journalists on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to express their anguish over the murder of senior journalist Syed Salim Shehzad and asked the government to take to task the responsible people at the earliest. Later, provincial ministers Syed Aqil Shah, Wajid Ali Khan and opposition members came out for talks […]


Journalist bodies ask govt to ensure safety of journalists

PESHAWAR: The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RWB), in conjunction with the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ), and the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ), has called on the government to “urgently ensure the safety” of journalists and all those working in the media after the death […]


Journalists stage sit-in to protest Saleem’s killing

ISLAMABAD: Addressing a sit-in by the journalists in front of the Parliament House, Pakistan Muslim League N leader Mian Nawaz Sharif termed the Saleem Ahehza’s killing the whole nation’s murder and demanded the authorities that the perpetrators be exposed and brought to the book. The journalistic cadre Wednesday staged a sit-in to protest the horrendous […]


Saleem Shahzad’s murder: Government forms commission headed by SC judge

* Justice Saqib Nisar to head commission * Will fix responsibility for killing and suggest ways to avert such incidents in future By Raja Riaz ISLAMABAD: The federal government at last bowed to the journalists’ pressure who were on a sit-in at the Parliament House and agreed to set up a judicial commission headed by […]