ISLAMABAD: New York Times and Washington Post have covered an incident that will add to government’s worry about its perception of media handling and freedom of speech that has increasingly been under the limelight. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and Council of Newspaper Editors, MPA Fayyazul Hassan Chohan made incendiary remarks, […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A judicial magistrate on Friday remanded the sixth suspect in senior journalist Aziz Memon’s murder case for two days in police custody. The Kandiaro court judge directed police to produce the suspect identified as Arshad Sehto before him on Monday. Police had earlier arrested five suspects who were sent behind bars. According to […]
KARACHI: Eminent writer Anwar Maqsood has said that he has nothing to do with the social media account that’s being run in his name from where statements and sentences against the PTI and on some important subjects are posted on a regular basis. In that regard, he has reached the relevant authorities to inquire into […]
ISLAMABAD: Cynthia D. Ritchie, a Pakistan-based blogger from the United States, has accused senior Pakistan Peoples Party leaders of molesting her in 2011, a week after the opposition party filed a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing against her for hateful comment and slander against slain prime minister Benazir Bhutto. In a video […]
Punjab information minister Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan said that journalists have stood at the forefront and played their vital part in the fight against novel Coronavirus. Punjab information minister Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan said that journalists have stood at the forefront and played their vital part in the fight against novel Coronavirus. According to details, […]
Here is what is etched in my memory in the aftermath of the crash: A grieving father being pushed for comment on television. As if the unfathomable loss alone was not enough, victim’s families at the behest of reporters who are badgering them for an ‘interview’. The mourners, who can barely contain themselves, struggle to […]
KARACHI: Sami Ahmad, who was among the last few surviving journalists who served under Altaf Husain, chosen by the Quaid-i-Azam to be the editor of Dawn, Delhi, died here a day before Eid. He was 93. Ahmad, who joined Dawn at Karachi in the 1950s, remained associated with the paper for a total of 27 […]
SHIKARPUR: A senior journalist associated with a Sindhi daily was shot and wounded by some masked assailants near the Gul Wah (irrigation channel) area here on Tuesday. Jameel Ahmed Mahar, also the senior vice president of Shikarpur Union of Journalists (SUJ), was chased and attacked in the area falling within the limits of Chak police […]
The Supreme Court (SC) has rejected the Sindh government’s petition to suspend the Sindh High Court (SHC) judgment in the murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Justice Manzoor said that the appeal cites irrelevant provisions and hence the accused will be released and acquitted as per the SHC’s verdict. He said that the kidnapping […]
ISLAMABAD – Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Hussain Chaudhry has expressed displeasure over state television – PTV Home – for taking pride on other country’s production ‘Al-Tughral’, which is being on aired in Urdu language at Pakistan television. Fawad Chaudhry, in his tweets, reprimanded PTV Home for taking pride and credit on Turkish Drama […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Television (PTV) News will launch nine new shows today (Monday) in the first phase of what it is calling a comprehensive content revamp plan. A statement issued by PTV said this plan includes the introduction of new anchors, newscasters, sets and screen graphics on PTV News. “The new content strategy has been devised […]
ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan, on Monday, will start hearing on appeals against the Sindh High Court judgment to acquit the accused involved in murder of Daniel Pearl, Bureau Chief of Wall Street Journal in Pakistan. On April 2, the SHC acquitted Adil Sheikh, Salman Saqib and Fahad Nasim and modified the sentence […]
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