ISLAMABAD: Prominent television presenter Gharidah Farooqi said Wednesday she had tested positive for COVID-19. She announced on Twitter that she had coronavirus symptoms for t the past two days and got herself tested, adding that she was already in self-quarantine at home. “The disease is real and it is no shame to contract it, report […]
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Women Wing leader and MPA Sharmila Farooqui on Sunday demanded of the federal government to ensure immediate restoration of pre-PM Imran status of media and help restore media workers who have lost their jobs in the present government era. PTI government had brought the worst economic crisis in the country […]
ISLAMABAD-Mehr Tarar, a senior journalist, author, and focal person for English print media to Punjab information minister has tested positive for COVID-19. Tarar announced on Twitter that she had tested positive for coronavirus. “No one was sneezing or coughing. There was no hand shaking. No one was sitting close to anyone. The room was not […]
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist (PFUJ) has expressed grave concern over the rapidly growing media crisis in the country, which, it believes, is the result of ill-designed and ill-conceived media policy of the government. “The crisis in the media industry is rapidly increasing, resulting in forced retrenchments, closure of the news outlets, and a decline […]
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s legendary photojournalist B. K. Bangash who covered Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s hanging, Ziaul Haq’s martial law, and the civil wars in Rwanda and Afghanistan in a career spanning 42 years is retiring this month. He will quit as the Pakistan photo chief at the American news agency, The Associated Press, on June 30 after an […]
ISLAMABAD—Hamid Mir, senior journalist and host of current affairs show Capital Talk on Geo News has served a legal notice on Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chauhan for terming Prof. Waris Mir, Mir’s father, a traitor. ISLAMABAD—Hamid Mir, senior journalist and host of current affairs show Capital Talk on Geo News has served a legal notice […]
KARACHI: In three separate lawsuits filed with the Sindh High Court, Labaik Pvt Limited is being sued for a collective $16 million for violation of Section 22 (1) of the Electronic Media (Programmes and Advertisements) Code of Conduct, 2015. As a parent company to a diploma mill and BOL TV, Labaik Pvt Limited is facing […]
MIRPUR: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has expressed deep grief and sorrow over the sad demise of veteran journalist and former President Central Press Club Muzaffarabad Saleem Akhtar Perwana. In his condolence statement issued here on Saturday, the Prime Minister paid glowing tribute to the journalistic and social services […]
TANK: District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Arif Khan Saturday said that all available resources would be utilized for the safety of people in the district. He said this while talking to a delegation of Journalists led by Tank Press Club President Syed Shah Kundi and comprised Tank Press Club General Secretary Kifayat Paracha and other […]
LAHORE: The community members of an area in Lahore are so smitten by the Turkish television series, based on the character of Ertugrul, that they have paid a tribute to him by erecting a statue in their neighbourhood. The TV series, ‘Ertugrul Ghazi,’ originally Dirilis: Ertugrul in Turkish is being aired on the Pakistan Television […]
PESHAWAR—Police on Sunday arrested the main accused involved in the killing of Tahir Hussain (pictured), a crime reporter with local English newspaper Frontier News in Peshawar. Personnel of the Badaber Police Station arrested Ibrahim alias Khany who had fled from the crime scene. They recovered weapons including one Kalashnikov, pistol and rifle from his possession. […]
ISLAMABAD: National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Friday took a detailed review of media campaigns launched by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB), Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) and provincial authorities to ensure strict compliance of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and overall status of healthcare equipment and the Epi curve chart. Additionally, the forum was […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday suspended the decision of the Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) to provide information about the employees of the Presidency to a citizen. A single bench, comprising Chief Justice Athar Minallah, on the request of the federation, issued the stay order on the PIC decision and issued notices to the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned “indecent” remarks by PM’s Special Assistant Shehbaz Gill while responding to a journalist’s. The question was about Gill’s removal from Quaid-e-Azam University. In a joint statement President PFUJ Shahzada Zulfiqar and Secretary General Nasir Zaidi demanded the prime Minister Imran Khan take notice of Shehbaz […]
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