An elderly journalist was injured after unidentified men threw acid on him in Mehran Town area of District Korangi on Monday. SHO Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) Police Station Inayatullah Marwat told said that some unidentified men threw acid on 66-year-old Arain and escaped. Arain, who is associated with a local newspaper “Karnama”, was sitting in […]
Veteran journalist Ghazi Salahuddin stressed the need for a movement for a free press to be collectively backed by civil society, the intelligentsia and political parties, to which Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani retorted that these issues are “beyond government level”, and the audience burst into laughter. They were speaking during a panel discussion titled […]
KARACHI: Sarmad Ali, President and Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have expressed profound grief on behalf of APNS office-bearers and members of the Executive Committee over the sad demise of Iqbal Dal, Editor, Daily Hilal-e-Pakistan, Karachi. The APNS offers condolence to the bereaved family and prays that Almighty Allah […]
ISLAMABAD: It is not the court’s job to find missing people, Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah said Monday, during a hearing of missing journalist and blogger Mudassar Naro’s case. Naro, a journalist from Lahore, went missing in August 2018. The IHC CJ said the presence of the Commission for Missing Persons is […]
KARACHI: Shabbar Aazmi, senior journalist and former president and general secretary of Karachi Union of Journalists, passed away here on Monday evening after a prolonged illness. He was in his 70s. Mr Aazmi, who worked for Daily Masawat and Daily Amn, was a fearless fighter for the cause of press freedom. He was a popular […]
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