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Daily Archives: March 26, 2021

‘Fake’ woman journalist demands Rs10, 000 from cop in audio leak, case registered

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KARACHI: A ‘fake’ woman journalist has been booked over demanding extortion from a policeman in Karachi, ARY News reported on Thursday. As per details, the woman named Sania Shahrukh Awan, portraying herself as a journalist was booked under terrorism, extortion, and telegraph act at Karachi’s Sir Syed police station on the complaint of a policeman, […]


Petroleum price narrative: Build it, don’t push it

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First things first. Understanding of petroleum pricing in the Pakistani mass media at large is amateurish at best. No surprise that the reporting if often devoid of ground realities. There should be no second opinions that the understanding and the subsequent quality of reporting needs to improve drastically. That said, how this qualifies for the […]


Protest against non-arrest of Lalwani’s killers

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SUKKUR: Journalists, civil society members and parents of slain journalist Ajay Lalwani took out a protest rally and later staged a sit-in outside the DGIP Office, Sukkur, against failure of police to arrest Lalwani’s killers here on Thursday. Seven-year-old Lalwani’s son Hamesh, Dilip Kumar, father and uncle Heera also participated in the rally. Addressing the […]


PFUJ slams Pemra’s advice to TV channels

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has strongly condemned the issuance of advice barring all satellite TV channels to stop analysis on the performance of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as this is unnecessary as per the standards of the globalised world we live in today. In a joint statement, PFUJ President Shahzada Zulfiqar […]


Daniel Pearl murder case: SC allows Omar Saeed Sheikh to be moved to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail

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The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed government authorities to move Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was on death row for 18 years before his acquittal in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, to the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, issued the order while hearing […]


First TV host Kanwal Naseer passes away

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s first television host, anchor and artist Kanwal Naseer passed away on Thursday. She was 70. She was the one who spoke to viewers along with Tariq Aziz during the first ever transmission of PTV in 1964, saying Yeah Pakistan Television Hai (This is Pakistan Television). Kanwal was suffering from diabetes and was admitted […]