ISLAMABAD: Sajid, a middle-aged employee of Radio Pakistan (Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation) is working fulltime for the last 17 years on contract basis and still gets just Rs7000 per month, less than a labourer. Talking to this correspondent he said: “I have a family and school going children and at this stage of my life I […]
FAISALABAD: “Pakistan is among the countries worst hit by global climate change,” experts at a seminar organised by the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) said on Thursday. Chairing the inaugural session of Climate Changes: Adaption Strategies to Ensure Food Security, UAF Vice Chancellor Iqrar Ahmad Khan said melting glaciers were causing floods. “This can cause […]
ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) here Thursday issued notice to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Chairman, Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmad, in response to the Intra-Court Appeal (ICA) of the federal government against his reinstatement by a single member IHC bench. The division bench, comprising IHC chief justice, Justice Muhammad […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression is concerned over ban on printing and distribution of Al-Sharq Al-Aswat, a Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily newspaper in Iraq. Quoting the information from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to the Prime Minister […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has announced special facilities for its member IT companies to attend the Pakistan CIO Summit and Expo 2014, scheduled to be held in March. The Summit and Expo-2014, which would be held in Karachi, will support IT heads to take the strategic direction of technology adoption in their […]
ISLAMABAD: With the example of one of the country’s most respected journalists, veteran progressive politician and constitutional expert Abid Hassan Minto advised media persons to strengthen their trade unions and take on broader responsibilities of social change rather than just demanding rights and freedom for themselves. He was speaking at a gathering to mark the […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday observed comments and analysis about cases pending with courts could not be released to media. Lahore High Court Justice Umar Ata Bandial made these observations while disposing of a petition questioning ‘unnecessary’ coverage being given to former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf in media. He also remarked that […]
KARACHI: The Coalition on Media Safety (COMS) has demanded that federal and provincial governments to designate contact persons on violence against media so that media professionals, civil society organizations and concerned citizens may be able to get information on progress regarding specific cases of violence against media personnel. The resolution was passed at the second […]
ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf’s counsel, Ahmad Raza Kasuri, Thursday lashed out at journalists, accused them of pursuing yellow journalism and threatened them that they needed to be fixed. Talking to media persons after hearing of the treason case, Kasuri lost his temper over a question by a journalist how Commando Musharraf was feeling now […]
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