The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in a bid to clamp down cricketers’ activities on social media is going to introduce a clause in the coming central contract, The News reported on Wednesday. Sources said that according to the new policy, the players will not talk on social media about the activities of the team during […]
The PTI government is on the back foot on the proposed digital regulation draft after a strong protest by the media and journalists community calling for a struggle to preserve free speech. While the government was thinking of some curbs on the content of the social media, the mainstream journalists are adamant not to allow […]
ISLAMABAD: Accepting Sindh prosecutor general’s plea, the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted two-week time to him for presenting additional documents and concluding his arguments in US Journalist Daniel Pearl murder case. Salman Saqib and other accused persons through their counsel had lodged a complaint in the apex court that they were not being provided medical […]
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday called for discouraging the culture of fake news as it created chaos in the society and misled the people. Talking to Chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Muhammad Saleem Baig here at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the President said the media needed to play its role in promoting ethical and […]
ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist Hamid Mir has offered apology over his recent speech at a protest against attacks on journalists and said he had no intention to defame Pakistan Army. A joint statement issued by a committee formed by the Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ), the National Press Club and Mr Mir on Tuesday said […]
LAHORE: A veteran journalist and member of Punjab Assembly, Syeda Maimanat Mohsin, popularly known as Jugnu Mohsin, was allegedly attacked while she was returning home after addressing a public rally in Okara’s Hujra Shah Muqeem area. She remained unhurt in the incident. Mohsin, wife of senior journalist Najam Sethi, was allegedly intercepted on Hujra Road […]
KARACHI: Polio is an incurable disease and children are our future. The only way to have a healthy future for our children is through the polio vaccine. The public protect children from polio, as the number of polio cases is rising sharply during the Corona virus outbreak. With the launch of the nationwide anti-polio campaign, […]
Veteran Pashto poet, writer and literacy critic Tahir Afridi passed away here after a protracted illness. He was 82. His funeral prayers were held in Karachi and he was buried at his hometown near Darra Adamkhel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Literary circles in Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta termed the passing of Afridi an irreparable loss for […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Executive Wasim Khan on Monday expressed regrets about his comments about some media members. PCB official said, “On Saturday during an interview, I made some comments about some members of the media. On reflection, my selection of words and the tenor was inappropriate, which I regret. The continued and unending […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Sunday said that strict legislation against fake news is very important. He tweeted that groups, which oppose legislation against fake news and call such actions against freedom of expression, have a dubious state of mind and balance. Newspaper: The News
HYDERABAD: Divisional Director Information, Hyderabad, Sawai Khan Chhalgari, said that for a truly democratic society, independent journalism was essential and the present Sindh government also believed in freedom of the press that’s why to ensure the safety of journalists, the ruling party had tabled “Sindh Protection of Journalists and other Media Practitioners Bill 2021” in […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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