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Daily Archives: June 18, 2011

Print media hails PM’s order for dues clearance

ISLAMABAD: Appreciating Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilnai’s special instructions to clear outstanding dues of the advertising agencies, print media stalwarts have underlined need for immediate implementation of the orders. Key figures of the newspaper industry while talking to Online Friday said that any more delays in release of approved payments to the advertisement agencies would […]


PFUJ outmanoeuvres government

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) deftly foiled the plan of certain elements in the government to pitch journalists against the judiciary on the Saleem Shahzad murder issue. Instead of getting dragged into the controversy surrounding the setting up of a commission under a Supreme Court judge, the PFUJ, in a smart move, […]


APNS demands early payment of ad dues

KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has stated that the matter related to the long outstanding dues of its accredited advertising agencies against various federal government departments and ministries for advertisements released by them in the print media during the period July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2008 needs to be resolved at the […]


SC orders three federal secretaries to file comments

Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the federal secretaries of the ministries of information, interior and law to file para-wise comments till June 20 over the progress made thus far in the investigation of the murder of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad. The court also ruled that a powerful commission would be constituted […]


Army supports commission on Shahzad’s murder, says ISPR

RAWALPINDI: A spokesperson for the ISPR on Friday voiced concern over unfounded and baseless insinuations being voiced in a section of print and electronic media against the ISI with regard to the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad. Such negative aspersions and accusations were also voiced against the ISI in some previous cases but investigations proved […]


Phone data removal conspicuous

Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: The brutal killing of senior journalist Saleem Shahzad carries the signature of the intelligence agencies, a Punjab government investigation has found, denying the impression that the murder had been committed by any militant group. These findings would be recorded once the judicial commission is set up by the Supreme Court, sources privy […]


Print media hails PM’s order for dues clearance

ISLAMABAD: Appreciating Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilnai’s special instructions to clear outstanding dues of the advertising agencies, print media stalwarts have underlined need for immediate implementation of the orders. Key figures of the newspaper industry while talking to Online Friday said that any more delays in release of approved payments to the advertisement agencies would […]


PFUJ outmanoeuvres government

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) deftly foiled the plan of certain elements in the government to pitch journalists against the judiciary on the Saleem Shahzad murder issue. Instead of getting dragged into the controversy surrounding the setting up of a commission under a Supreme Court judge, the PFUJ, in a smart move, […]