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Monthly Archives: January 2021

Social media websites asked to establish offices in country, IHC told

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that popular social media websites had been asked to set up their offices in Pakistan. PTA’s counsel disclosed this information before the IHC on a petition filed against uploading of “blasphemous” content on social media and Netflix. IHC Justice Aamer Farooq was hearing the […]


PTA moves to get blasphemous movie trailer blocked on social media

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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has approached social media platforms for removal of trailers regarding a sacrilegious movie titled “Lady of Heaven”. In a statement issued here yesterday, the PTA said, keeping in view different reports regarding release of the movie titled “Lady of Heaven” and its sacrilegious content, it has directed social media […]


PTV MD rejects charges

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KARACHI: Managing Director of Pakistan Television Corporation, Aamer Manzoor, on Friday firmly rejected the charges placed against him by the newly constituted PTV Board of Directors under the direction of PTV Chairman Naeem Bokhari. Manzoor said the “charge sheet” presented to him was in reaction to Manzoor’s efforts to stabilize the organization, which has been […]


Job data bank will be set up for unemployed journalists: Firdous

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Lahore – Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that government considered media as an important pillar of the state and journalists were important part of every democratic government. Punjab government-provided financial assistance to journalists who became victim of corona pandemic. The operation against all the illegal occupants […]


SHC judgment on Daniel Pearl

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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will resume hearing on the appeals of the Sindh government and Daniel Pearl’s parents against the Sindh High Court’s judgment to release the alleged murderers of the bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal in Pakistan from January 5. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Mushir Alam, […]


PTV board ‘suspends managing director’

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ISLAMABAD: The board of Pakistan Television (PTV) Corporation on Friday suspended its managing director Aamer Manzoor for 10 days allegedly for “exercising powers beyond prescribed limits”. According to media reports, PTV’s board of directors took the decision at an emergency meeting on Friday evening that was presided over by its chairman Syed Naeem Bokhari. When […]


Dera’s Journalists to Get Houses In Media Colony: Gandapore

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PESHAWAR, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 31st Dec, 2020) :Federal Minister for Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Affairs, Ali Amin Gandapore has said that journalists of D.I. Khan would also be allotted houses in Media Colony as per policy of the government. He expressed these views while talking to a representative’s delegation of Dera […]


PFUJ to launch movement for the security of jobs, freedom of expression

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Thursday decided to launch a decisive movement for security of jobs of journalists and media workers and freedom of expression in 2021. “Enough is enough. It’s now or never,” PFUJ President Shahzada Zulfikar and Secretary General Nasir Zaidi said in a joint New Year message. “PFUJ […]


‘Credibility of news’

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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Monday asked Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to devise a mechanism to ensure credibility of news. The committee observed that electronic media is running after rating of programs and there is no mechanism to ensure credibility of news. The committee, hence, directed PEMRA […]


Contempt plea filed against the government in Pearl case

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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday issued notices to the provincial and jail authorities on a petition seeking contempt proceedings against them for not releasing four men after their conviction order was set aside in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Petitioners Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib […]