Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Sahibzada Hamid Raza has said that his council moved the Supreme Court for registration of a blasphemy case against Geo TV on May 17 – but the case has yet to be fixed for hearing. Surprisingly, however, Geo TV’s petition was immediately taken up, Raza said while speaking in anchor […]
ISLAMABAD: The Nawaz Sharif government is being pressed hard for the second time in the first year of its tenure to shut down a private TV channel but is resisting the intense pressure while trying not to resort to confrontation with any state institution. Previously, it was a civilian institution that wanted the closure of […]
FAISALABAD: Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Act, 2013 (RTI) is a positive step towards a transparent, efficient and publicly acceptable governance system in Punjab, said Engr. Suhail Bin Rashid, President Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI). He was chairing the first ‘RTI Baithak’ organized by Beacon house University on ‘Role of Civil Society […]
ISLAMABAD: The resolution regarding the protection of minorities was on top of the agenda in Wednesday’s meeting of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). All members of the CII agreed that the government should ensure security of minorities. They reiterated that they will ensure the protection of minorities’ rights by setting guidelines in the coming […]
When people dance, they are not merely moving their body to the beat of music. They can be expressing emotion, performing an exercise for healing, trying to communicate their ideas or telling a story. A language that requires no words, it is a form of communication that even animals use, like the waggle of bees […]
KARACHI: Over 27 incidents of desecration of temples and holy books of religious minorities in the past six months have been causing insecurity among them, a conference on minority rights was informed on Wednesday. At the programme, organised by South Asia Partnership, speakers said that Pakistan had signed International Convention on Civil and Political Rights […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s number one channel Geo News and other channels of the Geo family have been forcibly shut down across the country. This is the third time this has happened during three different governments. People are deeply upset as they are not able to watch their favourite and popular channels, Geo News, Geo Entertainment, Geo […]
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers in the Senate on Wednesday cautioned against the backdoor elements pushing for derailment of the federal parliamentary system so as to sneak into the power corridors. Senators called on the government to take the ongoing crisis, stemming from the assault on Hamid Mir, seriously and take corrective measures to arrest it or some […]
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday granted bail to former chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Malik Mushtaq and two former acting chairmen Dr Abdul Jabbar and Shehzad Nawaz Cheema in the recruitment scam case. IHC Justice Noorul Haq N. Qureshi granted bails to the three against Rs500,000 surety bonds each. Malik Mushtaq […]
The government has received over $964 million (about 80 percent) from the telecom operators against 3G/4G licenses fee and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will award the licenses for commercial use Thursday (today). Besides the licenses fee, the government has also received Rs 11 billion from telecom operators under tax head at the rate of 10 […]
The PEMRA Council of Complaints is not competent to propose punitive action to the extent of suspension of licence of any television channel as did its members the other day. The said Council is only empowered to recommend censure and fine and that too to the PEMRA Authority under PEMRA Ordinance 2002 on violation of […]
LAHORE: The journalist community stood by the Jang Group on Wednesday and boycotted the Punjab Assembly proceedings followed by warning of strict action by Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan to the cable operators illegally blacking out the Geo News. The journalists from all news channels and newspapers unanimously boycotted the proceedings of the Punjab Assembly […]
All eyes are on Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). No matter how incompetent or troubled it may be, the authority remains responsible for dealing with issues related to the electronic media such as the one making headlines these days. During this tug of war between the country’s biggest media house and the Inter-Services Intelligence […]
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the order issued yesterday by three members of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) closing three Geo Television channels – Geo News, Geo Tez and Geo Entertainment – and cancelling their licences. The order was rapidly disowned by PEMRA in a press release that said it was issued […]
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