• February 9, 2020
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Federal Law Minister Farogh Nase­­em on Saturday opposed the resolution adopted in the National Assembly suggesting exemplary punishment of public hanging for people convicted of sexually abusing and killing children. “Public hanging does not only violate a Supreme Cou­rt verdict but is also against Islamic injunctions,” he said in a statement. Talking to Dawn, the law […]

• February 9, 2020
• advertising

Pulse Consultant, a discerning market research firm of Pakistan, has announced its plan to conduct an ad recall survey during HBL Pakistan Super League 2020. The study will collect information from 10 cities across the country comprising 52 percent of national urban population and 85 per cent of Television Audience Measurement. Pakistan Super League (PSL), […]

• February 9, 2020
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

PARIS: Reporters Sans Borders (RSF) calls on the Dutch authorities to protect a Pakistani blogger who was attacked and threatened outside the Rotterdam home where he lives with his family in self-imposed exile, says a press release issued here. The attack on the blogger, Ahmad Waqass Goraya, was carried out by two men on February […]

• February 9, 2020
• Freedom of Expression, Front Page

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has expressed its concern and dismay over the Punjab police incompetence to hold an inquiry into the burglary incident that occurred at the residence of veteran journalist Imtiaz Alam and demanded of the government to hold a judicial inquiry to probe the incident. According to a press release […]

• February 9, 2020
• Front Page, Media and Governance

Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing Town Planning, Religious Affairs, and Forest & Wildlife Department Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that the issues and the problems being faced by the Journalists’ community were in the knowledge of the Sindh government and that all these problems were being resolved on priority basis. The Minister […]

• February 9, 2020
• advertising, Front Page

Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah appreciating the positive role of newspapers assured that provincial government would take necessary steps for the promotion and development of media industry. Sindh government would also ensure the payment of arrears on account of its advertisements and their fair distribution to newspapers, he assured. Speaking at a conference […]

• February 8, 2020
• Obituaries

LAHORE: Eminent novelist Nisar Aziz Butt passed away here in the early hours of Friday. She was 93. According to information provided by a member of her family, Nisar had suffered a stroke on Sunday night. She passed away peacefully at Fajr time, surrounded by her sons Ashar Aziz and Ahmar Aziz Butt, brothers, grandchildren […]

• February 8, 2020
• Social Media

LARKANA: Social media can prove to be a dangerous phenomenon if it is not regulated with strong rules and regulations for the general good of society and people, according to a professor of mass communication. Prof Qasim Haider of the mass communication and history department in the International Islamic University Islamabad said this while delivering […]

• February 8, 2020
• Media and Governance

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Friday imposed a fine of Rs1 million on Neo TV channel for airing fake news about the enhancement of the prime minister’s salary. During a hearing on Thursday, the channel’s management was asked to respond to the show cause notice issued to it around a week […]

• February 7, 2020
• Arts and Culture

ISLAMABAD-The famous artist and author Rafi Peerzada announced that first time after 1976 the three-day 29th International puppet festival will be kicked off in Baagh-e-Qasim Karachi under the flag of Peer Rafi Theater tomorrow. Talking to a private news channel he stated the festival would be started from 7th February, the puppet show would be […]

• February 7, 2020
• Arts and Entertainment

When the teaser(s) of Sarmad Khoosat’s Zindagi Tamasha first released, it gave fans of cinema something to look forward to. It piqued our collective interest. It defied any set genre because Sarmad Khoosat cannot be pigeonholed into one. He is also a non-linear storyteller and we need more of those. The rendition of ‘Sik Mitraan’ […]

• February 7, 2020
• Obituaries

QUETTA: A ceremony was organised at Quetta Press Club on Thursday to pay tribute to veteran journalist Siddique Baloch on his second death anniversary. Former CM and Chief of Sarawan Nawab Aslam Khan Raisani called the late journalist a ‘voice of the voiceless people of Balochistan’ adding that Baloch fought for the rights of the […]

• February 7, 2020
• advertising, Broadcasting

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on Thursday said that the process of giving advertisements to the newspapers would be made more transparent. Talking to the officers of Sindh Information Department in Karachi, after assuming the charge of the Information Ministry, he said that dummy newspapers should also be identified so that […]

• February 7, 2020
• Freedom of Expression

KARACHI: The opponents of critical speech have found a new method of silencing expression online — this time in Twitter’s rules enforcement policies. On Feb 23 2018, feminist group Women’s Democratic Front (WDF) posted a tweet calling for public participation in a Women’s Day gathering. Two years later, Twitter locked the WDF account saying the […]