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Daily Archives: November 23, 2013

Transitions: Sindhi newspaper’s editor passes away at 45

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HYDERABAD: Qazi Shah Muhammad, the editor of Sindhi newspaper Tameer-i-Sindh, died at the age of 45 in a road accident in Naushehro Feroze on Friday. He was laid to rest at a graveyard in Kunda Khahi village in his hometown, Mehrabpur. The accident took place when the speeding car overturned at around 2am on Mehrabpur […]


3G auction: PTA not entertaining consultants requests for ‘benefits’

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), to secure the auction of multi-billion dollars worth next generation mobile spectrum (3G) from legal proceeding and to ensure transparency in the entire process, has so far declined to entertain the requests of consultants seeking 5 per cent exemption in performance bank guarantee and many more benefits. Surprisingly, financial proposals […]


PFUJ demands effective, strict steps to end culture of impunity

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KARACHI: Pakistan is known as one of the most dangerous place for journalists and the culture of impunity is posing a major threat to them, which needs to be addressed at the earliest. This was stated by President Rana Azeem and Secretary General Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, Amin Yousuf in a statement issued here […]


ABS Jafri, a pioneer journalist, remembered

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ISLAMABAD: There might be many reasons for the apparent decline of quality journalism in Pakistan. But perhaps one reason is that journalists in the country today do not have any role models from within their own industry. They are not aware of dedicated journalists who passed before them, people such as the late Akhtar bin […]


Pakistan orders all illegal internet calls banned instantly

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ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman on Friday instructed that all illegal calls coming from abroad should be blocked without any further notice. Chairing a review meeting of Grey Trafficking Monitoring attended by Dr Ismail Shah, Chairman, PTA, Akhlaq A Tarrar, Secretary IT, Azmat Ranjha, Additional Secretary IT, Anusha Rahman, directed that […]


International IFEX campaign takes on culture of impunity to defend free expression

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How do you break a culture of impunity? Support a culture that challenges impunity. Three years ago, members of the IFEX network met in Beirut to discuss attacks on free expression and how to defend those who are targeted for speaking truth to power. They agreed that a culture of impunity was feeding a climate […]