The Lahore High Court on Tuesday has sought a reply from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and other parties on the petition against the appointment of Chairman Mirza Saleem Baig. According to the details, the bench conducted a hearing on the petition filed by Zaheer Uddin Babar, Anchor BOL News. The Federal Government, […]
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has warned the creators of the GEO TV drama serial Fitrat for showing “inappropriate dialogues and content”. The authority has ordered the channel to align its editing policy with PEMRA’s code of conduct. Fitrat is based on an antagonist, Fariya (Saboor Aly), who belongs to a middle-class background and […]
ISLAMABAD: A senior counsel representing the parents of slain Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl on Tuesday submitted a DNA report in the Supreme Court to establish the fact that a body found in Karachi after the journalist’s murder in 2002 was that of the son of Judea and Ruth Pearl. The […]
Dawn columnist Irfan Husain passed away early Wednesday in Dorset, England, his family said. In a tweet, his son Shakir Husain said he was grateful his father “slipped away gently” and that he was able to be with him. “See you on the other side, Abba.” In a column in Dawn published earlier this year […]
Dawn columnist Irfan Husain passed away early Wednesday in Dorset, England, his family said. In a tweet, his son Shakir Husain said he was grateful his father “slipped away gently” and that he was able to be with him. “See you on the other side, Abba.” In a column in Dawn published earlier this year […]
LAHORE: Inaugurating the development work of journalist colony’s F-block here at Harbanspura, Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Monday said that the citizens of Lahore demonstrated a socially responsible behavior on Sunday by remaining aloof from the meeting. “I thank the Lahoreiites did not become part of illegal activity of the opposition which was […]
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Google services, including YouTube and Gmail, were restored for most of the users after facing a global outage for almost an hour on Monday. Updating on its official Twitter handle, YouTube said: “We’re back up and running! You should be able to access YouTube again and enjoy videos as normal.” The company has some […]
Islamabad: The risk of COVID-19 related misinformation and stigmatization is a critical challenge that requires a concerted effort on the part of all stakeholders, especially the media, which shoulders a huge responsibility in terms of keeping the public informed. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan expressed these views while […]
ISLAMABAD: As the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of routine immunizations, Unicef Pakistan and Facebook have launched a campaign to promote life-saving immunization. In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some communities to vaccinate children as […]
Disinformation has been growing since the outbreak of COVID-19 last December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Social media users – including world leaders such as Donald Trump – shared false information about the virus, intensifying an already dire “infodemic.” In developing countries like Pakistan, people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories […]
ISLAMABAD: As the year 2020 draws to a close, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a ‘White Paper on Global Journalism’ listed five countries, including Pakistan and India, as the ‘Most Dangerous Countries for Practice of Journalism in the World’. The white paper marks the 13th anniversary of the ‘The List of Journalists Killed […]
ISLAMABAD: Responding to concerns expressed by the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) over the recently enacted rules for social media, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Friday that “prejudiced and wrong impression is being created regarding the rules”. The rules — titled “Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards) 2020” — […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has granted non-commercial FM Radio license to National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Rawalpindi. The approval was given by the authority in its 161st meeting held in November, 2020 subject to completion of procedural requirements, frequency allocation by Frequency Allocation Board (FAB), airing of purely educational content and […]
ISLAMABAD: A dead professor and numerous defunct organizations were resurrected and used alongside at least 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian interests, a new investigation has revealed. The man whose identity was stolen was regarded as one of the founding fathers of international human rights law, who […]
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