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Daily Archives: January 18, 2019

Sindh CTD steps up monitoring of social media to prevent spread of ‘hatred, militancy’

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KARACHI: As the federal government plans a new body to regulate the print, electronic and social media, the police authorities in Sindh have developed a technical team under its anti-terror wing that has started monitoring all digital platforms amid their growing use for “promotion of ideology of hatred, anti-state activism and militancy”, a senior official […]


Contempt notices served on Maula Jatt title users

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LAHORE – The Intellectual Property Tribunal Lahore has issued contempt notices in a petition filed against the use of a Punjabi film’s title “Maula Jatt” in an upcoming film “The Legend Of Maula Jatt”. The notices were issued to Ammara Hikmat, Bilal Lashari, Nasir Adeeb, Fawad Khan, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Mahira Khan, Humaima Malick, secretaries […]


Senior journalist passes away

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HYDERABAD  –  The senior journalist and reporter of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Farhat Shaikh passed away here on Thursday at a local hospital. She was 56. Shaikh, who suffered from chronic lungs ailment, remained admitted in the hospital for almost three weeks. Her health deteriorated by the day during her hospitalization. She remained associated […]


PPF condemns brutal murder of journalist in Accra, Ghana

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana has expressed concern over the killing of investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein Suale on January 16 in Medina, Accra. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter, has condemned this brutal murder of journalist and called on the Ghanaian government to thoroughly […]