By: Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court issued on Monday notices on a set of petitions seeking review of its earlier order of dismissing appeals by Maj Gen (retd) Zaheerul Islam Abbasi, his wife Shahida Zaheer, Brig (retd) Mustansir Billah and Col (retd) Inayatullah Khan against convictions by a Field General Court Marshal (FGCM) for […]
ISLAMABAD: Pervaiz Shaukat, president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), is among the eight journalists who have been conferred civil awards by the president on the occasion of the Independence Day. According to a press release, the other journalists who got awards include Azhar Abbas, Hamid Mir, Jugnoo Mohsin, Sikandar Hameed Lodhi, Qazi […]
ISLAMABAD: As the associations of the Pakistan Cable Operators and the Pakistan Broadcasters moved the Supreme Court to become party in an ongoing case against obscenity and vulgarity in the electronic media, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) told the court that technological constraints restrained it from monitoring cable operators. “Television channels (Indian channels) […]
With 103 journalists killed in the year 2011, Pakistan was ranked as the fourth dangerous place to work in the field of journalism by Vienna-based press watchdog, IPI. And as the general perception puts journalists and bloggers in the same category, the online news disseminators are equally at risk. However, a recent research shows that […]
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