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Monthly Archives: October 2019

Two arrested in Lahore for harassing women on social media

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LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cyber crime wing on Wednesday arrested two suspects separately on charges of harassing and blackmailing women on social media. In a complaint, Muhammad Muzammil alleged that Azeem Khan was harassing and blackmailing his sister by uploading her objectionable pictures on a social media site. Deputy Director Chaudhry Sarfraz constituted […]


Outdated curriculum failing media students at KU

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 Having produced some of the best journalists and media professionals in Pakistan, the Dr Feroz Ahmed Institute of Mass Communication at the University of Karachi (KU) has maintained a decent academic reputation for many decades. However, with the changing media landscape across the globe, especially the rapid merging of previously distinct media technologies and platforms […]


TV, radio channels accused of promoting quackery

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PESHAWAR: The satellite TV channels and FM radios continue to promote quackery despite directives by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) not to air health-related advertisements without permission of the government. Even some mainstream satellite Pashto channels air such programmes in which the unqualified doctors offer treatment for all ailments. The homoeopaths have become radio […]


Festival to highlight Kalat’s historical importance kicked off

KHUZDAR: Balochistan Minister for Home and Tribal Affairs Mir Zia Ahmed Langove inaugurated the Kalat Festival on Saturday. Tribal chieftains, notables, students, government officials and people from different walks of life attended the ceremony at the Khan of Kalat Mir Ahmed Yar Khan Stadium. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Langove said that Kalat festival would […]


Volunteers gather to add information online about Pakistani women

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ISLAMABAD: Volunteers gathered at the Swedish embassy on Saturday to add more content on Wikipedia about Pakistani women such as footballer Karishma Ali, who before now had to write to people describing herself when they asked about her. Wikipedia is currently far from equal, Swedish Ambassador Ingrid Johansson said at the event, adding: “There are […]


Solution to electronic media issues: Notification to form task force soon: Pemra chairman

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ISLAMABAD: Pemra is constituting a task force for resolving issues pertaining to electronic media industry by reviewing existing Pemra laws and recommending appropriate proposals in this regard. This task force would have representation of all the stakeholders including satellite TV, FM radios as well as that of media regulator. Formal notification of this task force […]


Cable operators, advertisers assure Pemra Indian content will not be aired

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KARACHI: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Chairman, Muhammad Saleem Baig, on Tuesday met delegations of the Pakistan Advertisers Society and the Cable Operators in Karachi, assuring them of full support to resolve the media industry’s issues. The participants lauded the measures taken by the Pemra for improvement of the media industry and assured […]


APNS condolence

Karachi-Hameed Haroon, President and Sarmad Ali, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have expressed profound grief on behalf of APNS office bearers and members of the Executive Committee over the sad demise of Mrs Zareena Begum, mother-in-law of Faisal Zahid Malik, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Pakistan Observer. The APNS has offered condolence to the bereaved […]


Human rights museum opens in Seoul torture site

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Seoul-A museum dedicated to human rights has opened in a notorious building in Seoul where South Korean pro-democracy activists were once tortured. The Democracy and Human Rights Memorial Hall is located in a seven-story structure where many people, primarily students, were brought for police interrogations in the 1970s and 1980s, a period when Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan were […]


Brother of suspect in TV anchor’s murder case remanded to police custody

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KARACHI: A local court on Thursday remanded to police a brother of the prime suspect in a case pertaining to murder of TV anchor Mureed Abbas and another person allegedly over a financial dispute. Police had arrested Adil Zaman from a hotel on Monday over his alleged involvement in the murder of Mureed Abbas and […]


To, mother, with love

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KARACHI: How does it feel to be an artist of high merit and the son/daughter of a legendary artist? It’s a tricky subject to raise, because only that artist can give the answer to the question, and no creative person worth their salt can come up with a response that can make mortal souls empathise […]


Pakistani tech vlogger gets YouTube’s coveted Silver Play Button

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Karachi-based Ameer Dagha, the founder of ReviewsPK has been awarded a Silver YouTube Play Button for having surpassed 100,000 subscribers. The Silver Play Button is the first on the ladder of the YouTube Creator Awards. At this level, the channel becomes eligible to apply for the verification badge which just adds more credibility to the […]


Effective use of media can create awareness about breast cancer

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Islamabad: The effective use of media alone can create awareness of breast cancer and remove the people’s apprehensions and misconceptions about it, said First Lady Begum Samina Alvi on Wednesday. “Television, radio and social media could play a vital role in creating awareness about the disease and its cure through dissemination of public-service messages,” she […]


Twitter to alert govt before suspending ‘official’ accounts

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KARACHI: Two months after Pakistan specified about 200 accounts that were suspended by Twitter for posting content about Kashmir, the government has made headway in its negotiations on the matter with the micro-blogging website. In August, several users complained that their accounts or tweets were suspended or withheld for posting about events in India-held Kashmir. […]