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Daily Archives: June 23, 2014

Viewers jubilant at Geo News restoration

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AHAMADPUR SHARQIA/VEHARI/BAHAWALPUR/SIKANDARABAD: A wave of jubilation ran through viewers on the restoration of Geo News transmission. The viewers said Geo News was the best of the bunch while the channel’s transmissions were yet to be restored completely in some cities. The citizens threatened to hold protest if the channel’s transmissions were not restored countrywide. People […]


Govt to upgrade libraries for online and digital networking

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LAHORE: Punjab Governor Chaudhary Muhammad Sarwar on Sunday said that government was working actively to discuss ways, means and modalities to upgrade libraries on modern lines in all major districts of the province in a phased programme . The governor, in an interview with APP said that libraries are part and parcel in education system […]


Media role crucial in current situation, says KP CM

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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that provincial government will continue struggle for achieving constitutional right resources of the province. He was talking to a delegation of journalists which called on him here under the leadership of Nowshera Press Club President Mushtaq Ahmad Paracha and General Secretary Noor Khaliq Khattak. He said the KP […]


New radio transmitters to be operational in August

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ISLAMABAD: High-power transmitters of Radio Pakistan would become operational in Dera Ismail Khan, Hyderabad, Faqirabad and some other cities in August, a PBC spokesman said. The PBC had launched a big programme to replace old transmitters with ultramodern digital transmitters and one 400 kilowatt transmitter had been inaugurated in Peshawar last month. This transmitter, the […]


Cable operators’ Punjab leader arrested

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MULTAN: Police arrested Cable Operator Association (CAP) Punjab General Secretary Tahir Javed Chaudhry on the charges of threatening and attacking Pemra staff and interfering in official duties. Tahir was arrested at a local hotel in Gulberg Sunday and later transported to Multan. Pemra’s Regional General Manager Saeed Ahmed Sheikh had complained to Thana Gulgasht that […]


Pemra reform

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THE media wars which erupted in all their tawdry and shameful glory last April continue to rack up victims. Now, it is the turn of ARY News and Geo Entertainment to suffer 15-day suspensions and the imposition of fines at the hands of Pemra, the so-called electronic media regulator whose role in the media wars […]