ISLAMABAD, Dec 20 (APP):Minister of Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday expressed deep grief and sorrow over the demise of two journalists in a car-truck collision on GT Road near Jhelum. He expressed deep grief over the deaths of journalists Malik Bostan (Dunya News) and Sheikh Raza (Koh Noor TV) in the accident. […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has announced the establishment of a television channel to boost media cooperation between Pakistan, Turkey and Malaysia, Radio Pakistan reported on Monday. Speaking to the reporters in Islamabad, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said focal persons for media sharing have been designated and a cooperative media network will be developed. […]
The book ‘Pakistan Mein Media Ka Bohraan’ (Crisis of Media in Pakistan) authored by Academic and Veteran journalist Dr Tauseef Ahmed and Assistant Professor Dr Irfan Aziz is a unique and timely contribution to the academic arena of journalism, discussing key reasons behind the present media industry’s crisis in Pakistan with an interdisciplinary approach. Published […]
Reporters Sans Frontiers has released the World Press Freedom Index 2021. According to its findings, two of the four deadliest countries for journalists are from South Asia: Afghanistan and India. Though it says the situation in Pakistan has slightly improved, things are obviously not all rosy in the country. The index evaluates the situation for […]
Private TV channel SAMAA has lost a defamation case filed by Nasir Butt, the man who secretly recorded judge Arshad Malik’s confession in which the latter said that he was forced to convict former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz. Justice Saini of the London High Court has ruled in favour of […]
The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi (ACPKHI) in collaboration with A.J production organized a seminar in the memory of senior journalist and actor Asad Jaferi. The event held at Haseena Moin Hall of ACPKHI was president over by Mazhar Abbas while Akhlaq Ahmed, Raju Jameel, Syeda Afzal, former provincial minister Rauf Siddiqui, Hassan Jahangir, Saadat […]
The Karachi Union of Journalists has slammed the Rangers assault on a Jang journalist on Friday and asked the DG to take action against the personnel involved in the incident. Waqas A Alam tweeted on Friday that he was stopped by Rangers personnel while on his way to work and did not see that the […]
BAHAWALPUR – A two-day Media and Communication Conference (ICMC 2021) was organized by the Department of Media Studies, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB). The central idea was freedom of expression and social responsibility. Addressing the inaugural session of the conference, Vice-Chancellor Engr. Prof. Dr Athar Mahboob said that the theme of the conference was […]
ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: The government on Thursday announced that it had decided to file a defamation suit against former PTI leader Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed, who stuck to his earlier claim that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political companions were paying for his household expenses saying that it was the “truth”. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry told reporters […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has agreed to by-default register all member-publications of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) under the new Digital Media Policy. The commitment was conveyed by Federal Minister for Information Chaudhry Fawad Hussain and Minister of State for Information Farrukh Habib during a meeting with a delegation of CPNE led by […]
SUKKUR: A delegation of the Sukkur Union of Journalists on Wednesday met the newly-posted DIGP Sukkur Tariq Abbas Qureshi and discussed with him the Ajay Lalwani murder case. The delegation informed the DIG that journalist Ajay Lalwani was brutally murdered nine months ago in the Salehpat city of Sukkur by accused Ehsan Shah and Inayat […]
ISLAMABAD – The Information Technology (IT) Park, which is being established in Karachi at an estimated cost of Rs 31 billion, would house around 210 companies operating with their 8,400 employees. “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 […]
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday directed the PEMRA to launch a smog awareness campaign on television channels. A bench of the high court, ruled over a petition complaining absence of steps from the city authorities to curb smog in the provincial capital. “Don’t tell in the awareness message that the Punjab government has […]
Islamabad – The Planning Commission has turned down a proposal for diverting up to 2.5 percent of total development budget for running an effective media campaign to highlight government achievements. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had submitted a proposal asking for Central Development Working Party (CDWP) guideline for allocating a percentage of total budget […]
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