KARACHI: A pre-lunch session on the second day of the 12th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) was on ‘Freedom of expression in art and literature’ moderated by Safina Danish Elahi with panelists Asim Abbasi (film-maker) and Osman Haneef (novelist) — both of them were in the UK from where they attended the programme online. Her first […]
KARACHI – Ghulam Akbar Mangryo, the alleged murderer of journalist Ajay Lalwani in Sukkur, was arrested from Lahore railway station on Saturday. Police said the suspect would be shifted to Sukkur after getting his transit remand. Sukkur police and Lahore’s Naulakha police jointly carried out a raid at the railway station and took Mangryo into […]
MINGORA: The journalists staged a demonstration against the illegal directives of the deputy secretary to seal the Swat Press Club on Saturday. The journalist chanted slogans and asked the provincial government to take stern action against Deputy Secretary Arshad Khan and remove him from his post. “It is a black day for the journalist community […]
LAHORE: The UN has taken notice of harassment of journalists and praised the judiciary for dismissing meritless charges against them. A statement from the UN says: “We are seriously concerned that the number of complaints received illustrate an alarming pattern of using the legal system to harass, intimidate, threaten and retaliate against journalists and human […]
RAWALPINDI: Six people, including senior journalist Johar Majeed, have lost their lives due to the novel coronavirus as Pakistan witnessed a major surge in cases during the third wave while the positivity rate rises to 10.29 percent, a spokesperson said on Friday. According to the data obtained from the District Health Authority, another 138 people […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani journalist and a fellow of Tribal News Network (TNN) bagged second prize in Equitable Asia Journalism Awards. Krixia Subingsubing and Mariejo S. Ramos from the Philippines jointly clinched the first prize, and Vietnamese journalists, Pham Thi Thu Ngan and Pham Thi Song Mai, secured the third prize for their series of articles, “Shirts […]
ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Thursday opposed a ban on the popular short video sharing app TikTok. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad KP IT Minister Zia Bangash said the decision to ban TikTok in Pakistan is not right. Banning social media Apps in the country damages country’s impression at the International level. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
KARACHI: The annual meeting of the APNS General Council held on March 24, 2021 at the APNS House, Karachi, unanimously elected Sarmad Ali as President, Jamil Ather as Senior Vice President, Shahab Zuberi as Vice President, Ms Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani as Secretary General, Mohsin Bilal as Joint Secretary and Owais Khushnood as Finance Secretary of […]
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