SUKKUR: Sindh Minister for Information Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has handed over a cheque of Rs 5 million, as financial grant, to the Sukkur Press Club. Talking to media persons, Nasir Hussain Shah claimed Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) believes in freedom of press and would continue its support to the media, saying the Sindh government […]
ISLAMABAD: Founded in 1950, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) attained the grand age of 70 years on Aug 2 (Sunday) this year. Put differently, the oldest union of its kind in South Asia, possibly all of Asia, will complete on Sunday a full seven decades since the launching of its movement for press […]
WE are living in disturbing times. “No one is above the law and every citizen, including the state, is subservient to the rule of law and the supremacy of the Constitution,” said the chief justice of the Islamabad High Court in his verdict on the kidnapping of senior journalist Matiullah Jan in broad daylight in the federal […]
KARACHI: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has expressed concern over unannounced raids on newspaper and printing houses across the country by staff of the Federal Information Ministry and some individuals, terming such activities as unethical and an attempt to harass the print media. Newspaper offices and their printing houses in all provinces are taking […]
ISLAMABAD, Aug 01 (APP):South Kashmir-based editor and journalist, Qazi Shibli, has been detained by Indian police in Shergari police station, Srinagar, since Friday afternoon, in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir. According to Kashmir Media Service one of his family members said that he had been waiting outside the police station in Srinagar on Friday […]
APP: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US-based independent watchdog body, on Saturday called on India to immediately release Qazi Shibli, editor of The Kashmiriyat, a news website based in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, from custody. Shibli was detained at the Shergarh police station in Srinagar on Friday after questioning by the […]
ISLAMABAD: In order to facilitate businesses and the public for registration of virtual private networks (VPNs), the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to further extend the VPN registration deadline for two months till September 30, 2020, under the recommendations of the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT), Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and […]
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