• August 26, 2021
• General News, Social Media

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Wednesday informed a parliamentary body that the authority cannot block a specific individual unlawful online content present on secure social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube, but it can shut the whole site. A senior official of the PTA, while briefing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior, […]

• August 26, 2021
• Arts and Entertainment

After being reappointed as the Minister for Information and Broadcasting in April, Fawad Chaudhry resumed plans for reforms initiated by the ministry in 2018. In light of these reforms, he stated that PTV News would be upgraded to a high-definition (HD) channel by June 1 – a transition that had been delaying since 2019. “PTV […]

• August 26, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: One of the five judges of the Supreme Court’s larger bench in the journalist harassment case has suggested that the two judges who had initially taken up the case be also made part of the larger bench to help strengthen public confidence in the judiciary. “Would not it be appropriate that the two judges […]

• August 26, 2021
• General News

WASHINGTON: A spokesperson of the Pakistani Embassy has brushed aside a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based watchdog body, about Pakistani government plans to set up the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) though an ordnance, saying the claim was “factually incorrect.” “There is no plan to introduce the regulatory body through an […]