KARACHI: President of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Jameel Athar Qazi, Senior Vice President Qazi Asad Abid, Secretary General Ilyas Shakir, Joint Secretary Jawaid Mehar Shamsi and Finance Secretary Mushtaq Ahmed Qureshi have expressed their grave concern over the missing of bureau chief and senior editor of a private TV channel, News 5. In […]
KARACHI: Malik Munawwar, the reporter of a TV channel, reported missing from Karachi on Friday, has been recovered from near Hub in Balochistan late on Saturday night. He is in the custody of the Hub police who are accompanying him to Karachi. The reported disappeared from the Tipu Sultan police limits two days ago and […]
Karachi: The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) has established a modern television studio and media gallery. A spokesman of the institution said that the facility has been set up at FUUAST’s Abdul Haq Campus at a cost of Rs two million. The studio has been equipped with three high definition cameras, […]
Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will launch a new initiative ‘Prime Minister in Dialogue with the Nation’ from tomorrow (Monday) that will have four interactive sessions with eminent personalities from a cross-section of the society including writers, poets, intellectuals, artists, actors, educationists, social workers and media persons with focus on social issues. […]
By Malik Asad ISLAMABAD: The government has withdrawn grant of bail for women through a simple surety bond in non-bailable offences by amending the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). As the amended CrPC has been circulated to the lower judiciary, judges have been asked to follow the new criteria for granting bail to women. Amending section […]
NAWABSHAH: A man axed his sister and cousin to death in Asgharabad village on Saturday over suspicions they had established illicit relations. Mohammad Machhi attacked his sister Pathani and cousin Sain Bux with the axe when they were at his home in the village. They died on the spot. The accused was later arrested by […]
By Ayesha Siddiqa [email protected] The other day, I happened to be part of a television debate regarding the appointment of one of the highest offices of the country. The anchor, however, squirmed at the idea of debating the issue of sexual harassment of a female colleague by a senior bureaucrat mainly because he felt uncomfortable […]
The mystery of Saleem Shahzad’s murder is still unresolved. Now another journalist has gone “missing” for apparently asking Zulfiqar Mirza a controversial question. If the murderers of Mr Shahzad had been caught and punished, no one would have dared to harm Munawar Husain. Journalists are doing a great service to this country by raising questions […]
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