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Monthly Archives: March 2021

SC on Daniel Pearl case

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The Supreme Court has issued its detailed judgement on the January 2002 brutal murder case of Daniel Pearl, South Asia bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. It may be recalled that in its short order earlier this year, the court had acquitted by a majority two-to-one verdict the principal accused, Umar Sheikh, and three […]


US report highlights serious rights violations in India and Pakistan

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WASHINGTON: The US State Department’s annual report on human rights on Tuesday identified unlawful, arbitrary and extrajudicial killings and disappearances as major issues in both India and Pakistan. The report — which covers incidents reported in 2020 — highlighted 32 extrajudicial killings in the first half of 2020 in the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The […]


‘Female journalists can report problems of women effectively’

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MARDAN: A seminar was organised by a non-governmental organisation, DCHD at the central office of the Awami National Party (ANP) in Mardan where male and female reporters were also invited. The DCHD Coordinator Nusrat Ara said violence against women and harassment is not only a problem with Pakistan, but rest of the world also. She […]


Body formed to review social media rules

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has constituted an inter-ministerial committee to review the controversial social media rules. As per a directive issued by the Prime Minister Office on March 29, Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari will be chairperson of the committee comprising Parliamentary Secretary on Law and Justice Maleeka Ali Bukhari, Senator Syed […]


President calls for early finalization of Protection of Journalists and Media Professional Bill

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On March 18, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) met with President Dr Arif Alvi to discuss the Draft Protection of Journalists and Media Professional Bill, 2020 during which the president expressed satisfaction over the draft Bill.  President Alvi commented that the draft Bill was good which should be finalized at the earliest while incorporating minor changes […]


‘Thanks for Award, but when the murderers would be arrested?

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’PESHAWAR: Martyred journalist Hayatullah Khan Dawar was born in Harmuz village in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan tribal district on December 13, 1976. Hayatullah Dawar passed matriculation in his native village and then got admission in CT College Hyderabad where he completed F.Sc after which he returned to North Waziristan and completed B.Sc from […]


Campaign against SC judges on social media: LHC larger bench to hear case

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LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Qasim Khan decided on Monday to form a larger bench regarding the campaign on social media against the Supreme Court judges. LHC CJ Qasim Khan heard a petition filed by local lawyer Nadeem Sarwar against anti-judicial propaganda on social media. The petitioner took the position that a campaign […]


Sindh CM orders probe into Lalwani’s murder

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SUKKUR: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday ordered the IGP Sindh to constitute a joint investigation team to probe the murder of journalist Ajay Lalwani. On the other hand, the confessional video of the alleged killers of Lalwani became viral in the social media in which the arrested accused, Syed Raza Shah, […]


Access to public information a basic right of every citizen’

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LAHORE: Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Irum Bukhari has said that access to public information is a basic right of the every citizen and decisions taken for this purpose should be implemented on the emergency basis. She said this while chairing a meeting of the Provincial Implementation Committee under the Punjab Transparency and Right to Information […]


Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority instructs television channels not to criticize the state’s anti-corruption institution.

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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) is alarmed by the overreach of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and its latest order regarding the coverage of Pakistan’s accountability watchdog, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). In an advice dated March 24, the media regulatory body said that satellite television licensees “indulged in airing highly unsubstantiated, judgmental and […]


Sindh Chief Minister orders probe to investigate murder of journalists Ajay Lalwani.

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Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered the provincial inspector general of police to form a joint investigation team to investigate the murder of Ajay Lalwani, reporter for Royal News TV who was murdered in the Sukkur city of the Sindh province on March 18. A group of armed men opened fire on the journalist […]


Sukkur police claim breakthrough in TV reporter murder case

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SUKKUR: Police on Sunday claimed to have made a breakthrough in the murder case of TV reporter Ajay Lalwani by announcing arrest of the prime suspect and two of his accomplices in the wake of a protest march by media persons from Salehpat to Sukkur and sit-in outside Sindh High Court building in Sukkur a […]


PEMRA directive violates liberties of expression and information: CPNE

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The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) expressing concern over the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) directive regarding reporting of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) activities has termed it as a “transgression of the canons of press freedom and free speech”. The CPNE asserted that Pemra has, through this directive, barred the TV channel […]


PTI calls for providing Covid-19 vaccine to media workers

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The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Karachi chapter urged the National Command and Operations Centre on Sunday to provide the Covid-19 vaccine for media workers. In a letter to the NCOC chief and federal minister Asad Umar, the PTI Karachi’s information department said the federal government and the NCOC had played a commendable role in combating the coronavirus […]