ISLAMABAD, Veteran journalist and former Director News, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) Liaqat Ali Toor passed away after a protracted illness on Wednesday. He was 71. His funeral was held in Lahore after the Asr prayer, which was attended by relatives and friends. Family sources said the deceased suffered from the dengue fever during the […]
KARACHI: A young man was on Wednesday found tortured to death inside a Malir farmhouse, police and relatives of the victim said. The incident enraged area residents and community members, who blocked the main National Highway and alleged that influential personalities were involved in the murder as the victim had made a video of some […]
ISLAMABAD – The federal government would spend funds amounting to Rs 31 billion for the establishment of Information Technology Park in Karachi. “This facility is the part of government strategy to develop IT zones and software parks besides setting up purpose-built software technology parks in major cities of the country,” a senior official of the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has agreed to establish a mechanism with TikTok to ensure that all content uploaded on the platform is lawful and safe for society. The Chinese video-sharing platform was banned in the country, on the directives of courts, for uploading objectionable content which is not acceptable in Pakistani society. To discuss […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) pays tribute to the work of Royal TV network reporter Abdul Razzak Johra, who was murdered in Mianwali district in Pakistan’s Punjab province on November 3, 2008. Johra’s case is one of the few cases in Pakistan where the murder of a journalist went to court and the accused were sentenced. […]
ISLAMABAD: As the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists was observed on Tuesday, it emerged the government had yet to devise a mechanism to record data related to attacks on and threats against journalists. At a ceremony held to commemorate the day officials presented an optimistic picture of the state of the […]
SUKKUR: Journalist Mansoor Mirani was buried in Ghulam Ali Shah graveyard near Pir Jo Goth in Khairpur on Tuesday. In the late 70s, Mirani joined journalism by working for daily Sindh News, Hyderabad, and later worked for Daily Dawn as correspondent at Khairpur. Mirani was also an accomplished poet who wrote many poems. A collection […]
KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday urged the Sindh Government to establish a Commission to ensure protection of journalists under the ‘Sindh protection of journalists and other media practitioners Act 2021’. The seminar was jointly organized by Karachi Press Club (KPC) in collaboration with the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) and Karachi Union of Journalists […]
ISLAMABAD: As the ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’ is being observed on Tuesday, new data published by Unesco shows that killings of journalists declined globally by 20pc in the last five years (2016-2020) compared to the previous five-year period (2011-2015). In its ‘World Trends Report Insight’ report, “Threats that Silence: Trends […]
KARACHI – Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecom, Syed Aminul Haque, on Monday, said there were millions of cyber-attacks every day all over the world, including 5.5 million attacks for ransom through malicious software, which called for rapid response through build-up of IT force. He was speaking at the inaugural session of two-day IT […]
LAHORE – Dunya Media Group CEO Mian Amir Mahmood has been elected as the Chairman Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA). According to details, Dunya Media Group CEO Mian Amir Mahmood has been elected the new PBA chairman while Chairman ARY Network Salman Iqbal has been elected as Senior Vice Chairman. Mir Ibrahim Rehman of Geo News […]
KARACHI: The team of Editors for Safety (EFS) in collaboration with the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) launched the Pakistan Journalists Memorial website on the eve of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, which is marked on Nov 2, at the Karachi Press Club on Monday. EFS is a collective forum of […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry Tuesday thanked the country’s media for playing a responsible role amid the recent crisis relating to the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) march towards Islamabad. Taking to Twitter, Fawad Chaudhry said,“ I wanted to thank the mainstream media on the behalf of the Information Ministry for demonstrating responsibility […]
THAT Pakistani journalists are threatened, intimidated and killed with no consequences for the perpetrators is a shameful indictment of our democracy. Ahead of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists published a report that ranks Pakistan as ninth out of 12 countries where journalists have been killed […]
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