• November 26, 2021
• advertising

The (CPNE) Thursday condemned PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz’s admission with regard to the distribution of advertisements to favourite media houses while ignoring certain media groups, and demanded that the PML-N leadership should tender an apology for its undemocratic and anti-media steps. In a statement, the CPNE demanded that the committee constituted by the government […]

• November 26, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD:The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Thursday set up a committee to probe Maryam Nawaz’s admission that a viral audio clip in which she can be heard instructing someone to stop ads to certain TV channels was authentic. The PML-N vice president had admitted in a press conference a day earlier that the audio […]

• November 26, 2021
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday directed the secretary interior to arrange a meeting of the legal heirs of missing journalist Mudassar Mehmood with highest state functionaries. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah issued the direction while hearing a petition filed by Rana Mehmood Ikram, father of the missing journalist. The petitioner moved the […]

• November 26, 2021
• Broadcasting

LAHORE: Like various other ‘The first ones’ of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, a controversy erupted recently when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) suspended its broadcasting deal with the state-run television network, PTV Sports. However, a civil court in Lahore barred the Cricket Board from granting broadcast rights to any private channel when the PTV Sports […]

• November 26, 2021
• General News

KARACHI: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), while denouncing the statement of Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry regarding recently-held PFUJ National Convention on The Freedom of Media and Freedom of Expression, Thursday said that he should refrain from generating fake news to divert public attention from the shrinking civic space for debate, discussion and dissent. Reacting […]

• November 26, 2021
• General News

LAHORE: A journalist was allegedly attacked by an unidentified man here on Wednesday, according to police. In the first information report (FIR), a copy of which is available with Dawn, registered with the Ghaziabad Police Station on Thursday, Ambreen Fatima, the wife of journalist Ahmad Noorani, claimed that she and her two children left their […]