ISLAMABAD: Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday praised the social media team of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and condemned the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for targeting the team members. The minister wrote on microblogging website Twitter that he had suggested in the past to regulate the social media but the same […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan strongly believed in freedom of expression, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz here on Tuesday said. Freedom of the press and democracy were inseparable, he said talking to a delegation of Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) which called on him. Shibli Faraz said that there was no […]
LAHORE: A sessions court on Tuesday extended interim pre-arrest bail of actor Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed in a case of video recording at the Wazir Khan Mosque. The petitioners did not appear before the court, citing security reasons. The lawyers filed applications on behalf of Ms Qamar and Mr Saeed, seeking exemption from […]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shehryar Khan Afridi Monday extolled the journalist fraternity of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K) for their resilience and courage to speak truth to the power despite intimidations by the fascist Indian regime. Afridi was speaking to a group of journalists from IIOJ&K working in Pakistan. The Kashmiri […]
LAHORE: For movie fans, the wait may still not be over. The long intermission triggered by the Covid-19 health crisis may gradually be coming to an end, but the return to movie theatres that remained closed for months during the pandemic, comes with conditions and a long list of challenges. While the government has revoked […]
KARACHI: Hum Network Limited (HUMNL) on Saturday held an extraordinary general meeting (EOGM) primarily for the election of directors and to vote on a resolution regarding the change of share registrar. The election of directors in the EOGM had been stayed due to an appeal in the Sindh High Court (SHC) filed by Mehtab Rashidi. The […]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Muhammad Saleem Baig on Saturday called for more effective ongoing operations against transmission of immoral content, illegal channels especially Indian channels on cable TV. During his visit to PEMRA Regional Office Sukkur the Chairman PEMRA was briefed about the ongoing operations against cable TV and unethical content […]
The Sindh High Court on Friday issued notices to the federal interior ministry, information technology and telecommunication ministry and others on a petition seeking a direction for the government to block the transmission of Indian radio stations in Tharparkar district as such stations broadcast content that may not be conducive to country’s national interest. Petitioner […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD) finally managed on Saturday to trace a black bear in captivity, after a TikTok video of it went viral on social media. However, SWD officials were unable to convince the gypsy family that held the animal in captivity in Sanghar’s Tando Adam to hand it over them. The issue […]
CHARSADDA: Charsadda Police has arrested an accused involved in hurling death threats on the social media to people from a particular school of thought through a video. District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Shoaib Khan took notice of a provocative video which went viral on the social media after which a team of Nisata Police Station […]
ISLAMABAD: Abid Saqi, Vice-Chairman, Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), has expressed grave concern on the continued disappearance of Mudassar Mehmood Narru, a known Journalist and human rights activist, whose whereabouts are not known since 20-08-2018, when he was abducted from Kaghan where he had gone on vacation with his wife and six-month-old son. In a statement […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday sought details about the powers of federal and provincial governments regarding detention of prisoners on a petition challenging the detention of four men set free by SHC after setting aside the trial court order in the abduction and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The two-judge bench headed by Justice […]
KARACHI: The theatrical version of writer Haseena Moin’s famous TV play Ankahi which was to be shown at the Arts Council on March 15 but was put off because of the pandemic, will now be staged on Oct 20. This was announced at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. Speaking on the occasion president of […]
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar-based journalists would stage a protest sit-in outside the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) office for its failure to launch uplift work in the lone media colony despite payment to the entity. “The PDA has been applying delaying tactics since long despite receiving payments for the development work in the media colony. We have […]
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