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Daily Archives: June 6, 2021

Jamaat-e-Islami leader blasts government for bid to gag the media

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MINGORA: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) provincial chief Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has condemned a government move to bring new media ordinance aimed at gaging the press in the country. “The proposed ordinance will intensify the miseries of journalists and create the worst situation for free media. The rulers want to curb the media and press freedom in […]


Fawad says media authority won’t be set up without stakeholders’ input

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LAHORE: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday assured a delegation of newspaper editors that an authority to regulate the electronic, print and social media would be set up only after taking the input from all stakeholders.   The minister, while speaking to a delegation of the Council of the Newspapers Editors headed by Arif Nizami, […]


40 journalists file writ petition in Peshawar High Court against occupation of the Swat Press Club

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Swat:  More than 40 journalists, including 20 members of the Press Club, have filed a writ petition in the Mingora Bench of the Peshawar High Court against the occupation of Swat Press Club and closing of the club’s doors on working journalists. Barrister Asadur Rehman, while appealing to a division bench comprising Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim […]