• March 11, 2014
• Protest Letters by PPF

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression is concerned over killing of two journalists on 9 March, 2014 in Babel province of Iraq. Quoting the information from International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in a letter to the Prime Minister of […]

• March 11, 2014
• Information Technology

By: Azam Khan ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan Assembly has ignominiously disappeared from cyberspace after it failed to clear the dues of the company that manages its website. The provincial assembly has not made any payments to its web service provider for the last four months. Now when one clicks on the website, instead of information on […]

• March 11, 2014
• General News

LAHORE: In a session on the media at Marcon 2014, speakers highlighted the importance of media campaigns in the success or failure of films and TV dramas. Samit Tandon from India attributed a recent success of three Indian blockbusters to hype created about the films through media campaigns. He said a film drew crowed on […]

• March 11, 2014
• General News

On March 7, 2014, at least 20 assailants stormed the offices of Chingari, an Urdu-language daily based in Mirpur, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, according to local reports and local press freedom groups, including the Freedom Network and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. The attackers dragged the paper’s editor, Shahid Mahmood Mirza, out of his office and […]

• March 11, 2014
• Freedom of Expression

Following the delaying tactics of the organised criminal gang behind the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar and the killing of six eye witnesses, one prosecutor and, the case has finally concluded, setting an example of being a case where the killers have been prosecuted and brought to justice. Two main killers, still at large, […]

• March 11, 2014
• Arts and Entertainment

LAHORE: A film festival organised under the banner of the Punjab Youth Festival (PYF) 2014 concluded at the Alhamra Cultural Complex on Monday. Special awards were given to the six best films of six different categories. Provincial Minister for Sports and Education Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan was the chief guest at the closing ceremony while […]

• March 11, 2014
• General News

Karachi: A senior reporter of The News was robbed and beaten up by armed men near Jama Cloth Market on Sunday night. Fasahat Mohiuddin was heading toward MA Jinnah Road when three armed men on a motorcycle came to him and pointed a pistol at him. They told him to open the bag he was […]

• March 11, 2014
• Front Page, Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of National Assembly’s (NA) Standing Committee on Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Monday decided to finalise the much-awaited code of conduct for electronic media (e-media) in its meeting on April 15. The committee that met under its convener Arifa Khalid Parvez asked the Ministry and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to […]

• March 11, 2014
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

ISLAMABAD: There is no foolproof way to block access to a video that resulted in the ban on YouTube in Pakistan, according to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Chairman Dr Ismail Shah. Dr Shah’s statement on Monday came a day before the Lahore High Court hears a petition seeking the court’s directive to the government to allow […]

• March 11, 2014
• Arts and Entertainment

By: Anil Datta Karachi: The late Habib Jalib was a committed socialist and the cause of those pining under the yoke of capitalism-generated misery was very close to his heart. This was the tribute paid to the late poet by Advocate Muslim Shamim on the occasion of the launch of the book, “Rodad-e-Wafa”, authored by […]