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Daily Archives: January 17, 2022

Pakistan urges world to hold India accountable for journalists’ arrests in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir

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ISLAMABAD   –  Pakistan on Sunday condemned the increasing harassment, illegal arrests and registration of fake criminal cases against journalists and civil society activists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The Foreign Office in a statement issued on Sunday said that the reported attack on Kashmir Press Club on Saturday manifestly reflects India’s entrenched […]


Fawad distributes health cards at Press Club

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LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry inaugurated the issuance of National Health Cards for members of Lahore Press Club (LPC) and distributed health cards at the LPC. He said soon land would be marked for Phase II and there would be announcement regarding development and issuance of loans for construction of houses […]


Information Ministry, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority at odds over creation of ‘unsanctioned’ top posts

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ISLAMABAD: The creation of five new top-level posts has become a bone of contention between the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and its administrative ministry — Information and Broadcasting — after the latter censured the media watchdog for bypassing the Establishment and Finance divisions and ignoring austerity measures already in place. In its 167th […]


Information department to start paid internship for youth: Saif

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PESHAWAR – Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Information and Public Relations Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif Sunday said that Information Department was launching a program to provide internships to the educated youth which would not only give them experience in working in the field but also give them a monthly stipend and create awareness […]


Protection of working journalists government’s top priority: Fawad

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LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said that Sehat Card is a unique programme which is successful in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. He was talking to journalists at Lahore Press Club here on Sunday. While requesting the Sindh government to contribute in the health project, he said that huge amount of […]


Federal Investigation Agency asks Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority to ban its ex-chief Bashir Memon’s TV interviews

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LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has approached the Pakis­tan Electronic Media Regu­latory Authority (Pemra) with a request to stop TV channels from airing interviews/comments of its (FIA) former chief Bashir Memon in the case involving an international fugitive. The FIA is investigating its two former FIA chiefs — Bashir Memon and Saud Mirza — […]


PPF remembers murdered journalist Mukarram Khan Atif

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A decade ago, senior journalist Mukarram Khan Atif, 40, a correspondent for Washington-based Pashto language “Deewa Radio” and a reporter for a private TV channel “Dunya News” was gunned down in Shabqadar area of Charsadda district by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan on Jan 17, 2012, in response to his refusal to give coverage to the Taliban on […]


پی پی ایف قتل ہونے والے صحافی مکرم خان عاطف کو یاد کررہی ہے

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ایک دہائی قبل واشنگٹن میں قائم پشتو زبان “دیوہ ریڈیو” کے نامہ نگار اور نجی ٹی وی چینل “دنیا نیوز” کے رپورٹر،  40 سالہ سینئر صحافی مکرم خان عاطف کو 17 جنوری 2012  کو تحریک طالبان پاکستان نے ریڈیو پر طالبان کو ان کے مطلب کی کوریج دینے سے انکار پر ضلع چارسدہ کے علاقے […]