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Monthly Archives: December 2017

CPNE wants press act repealed

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The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has said that the Press Publication and Book Registration Act 2013 was tantamount to imposing a ban on a free press. In a resolution passed in a meeting on Thursday — chaired by CPNE Vice President and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Committee chairman Tahir Farooq — […]


‘Ansoo,’ new documentary on Junaid Jamshed will literally leave you teary-eyed

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KARACHI : It still feels like yesterday when we first heard of Junaid Jamshed’s passing. The musician had been on his way home from Chitral when his plane crashed, killing all those onboard and bringing to end one of the most revered eras of Pakistani music. Junaid may have given up singing by the time […]


Give us our rights, say persons with disabilities

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KARACHI: Seven million persons with disabilities do not have access to wheelchairs in Pakistan and are therefore forced to remain within the confines of their homes, said Shafiqur Rehman, president of Milestone – a movement for persons with disabilities. The government is trying to deny us our constitutional rights by registering the population of persons […]


SC directs Pemra to exercise extreme vigilance of electronic media

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ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court has directed PEMRA to exercise extreme vigilance of the electronic media to ensure that it were strictly complying with the provisions of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Ordinance, 2002, failing which they should be proceeded against in accordance with law. The SC bench comprising Justice Mushir Alam and […]


250 journalists participate in second ‘Sport Journalists’ Congress’

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The Afghanistan Sport Journalists Federation (ASJF) held its second annual national Sport Journalists’ Congress in the International Center of Media and Information of the government with a record 250 sports journalists from around 34 provinces turned up. According to President Afghanistan Sports Journalists Federation Sayer Zaland, it is for the first time that such a […]


Pemra asks TV channels not to portray Sindhis as ‘extremists’

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra ) has advised all Sindhi-language TV channels not to portray Sindhis as “extremists and miscreants”. The regulator has also advised these channels to respect the code of conduct agreed upon in 2015 and refrain from promoting themes and subjects that glorify violence in Sindhi plays, according to […]


Amendments to K-P’s RTI law still in the works

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PESHAWAR: The changes proposed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act, 2013 – aimed at removing its shortcomings – have been bouncing back and forth between the law department and the commission concerned for the past two years. In February last year, the changes proposed in the act were sent to the provincial law […]


SC assails media, intelligence failures over sit-in

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ISLAMABAD: A visibly disturbed Supreme Court bench on Thursday questioned why no one dared to talk about “the real Islam” in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a country that came into being in the name of religion. “Only the real concept of Islam will prevail in the Islamic Republic of Pakis­tan,” observed Justice Qazi Faez […]


Anti-judiciary tweets: notices to Pemra, Maryam

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notices to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and Maryam Nawaz, daughter of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, on a petition seeking contempt proceedings against the latter for uttering ‘outrageous’ remarks against judges of the Supreme Court. Amina Malik of the Civil Society Network had filed […]


SC censures broadcast media

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Supreme Court Thursday observed that instead of promoting the teachings of Islam and observing the existing laws, the national media created chaos and failed to play responsible role in Islamabad sit-in. Resuming the hearing of suo motu over weeks long sit-in at Faizabad Interchange by a religious group, a two-member bench led by Justice Mushir […]