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Daily Archives: December 25, 2019

Govt announces 8th Wage Award for media workers

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ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday announced the 8th Wage Board Award signed with consensus between the management of media houses and the representatives of journalists and other media workers. The special assistant made the announcement here at the National Press Club along with the chairman […]


FIA cybercrime probes hobbled by social media giants

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ISLAMABAD:The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has said the investigation into transactional electronic cybercrime requires records from International organisations which many times do not share details of its users. “Servers of companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Microsoft, and WhatsApp are outside Pakistan and the FIA probe comes to a dead end due to lack of […]


Citizen petitions IHC against ban on govt officials’ social media accounts

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ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court against an interior ministry notification banning social media accounts belonging to senior capital administration officials. The petition was filed by a citizen, Mohammad Awais, on Tuesday. It asked for the notification, which was sent to the heads of the ministry’s 22 subordinate organisations across […]


APNS regrets use of ads as a tool to silence media

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PR KARACHI – The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has regretted that the present democratically elected government is resorting to use advertisements as a tool to silence fair and objective comments in the print and electronic media. The executive committee of the APNS which met here yesterday with APNS President Mr Hameed Haroon in chair, pointed out […]