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Daily Archives: April 28, 2022

The Islamabad High Court stays transfer of suspended PTV officials to Turbat

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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday issued a stay order on the transfer of the suspended director news and two other senior officials of the state-run PTV to the far-flung area of Turbat, Baluchistan, by the previous government. Suspended Director News Rashid Baig and reporting head Shahid Ajmal Malik from the PTV’s Islamabad […]


Radio conversion to digital technology to cost Rs3.5bn, Senate body told

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ISLAMABAD: Officials of the information ministry on Wednesday informed a parliamentary committee that the project to convert radio from analog to digital technology would cost approximately Rs3.5 billion. The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting, which met here with Senator Faisal Javed in the chair, was briefed by the officials about the ‘Digital Radio […]


Media asked to play effective role in interfaith harmony

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Speakers at the media launch of Public Service Messages for TV and Radio focused on Peace and Interfaith/Sect Harmony on Wednesday asked the mainstream and social media to play an effective important role in inter-faith harmony in Pakistani society for the progress and prosperity of the country. They expressed such views while speaking on the […]


Present government does not believe in restrictions on media freedom, controversial PMDA abolished: Marriyum

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Islamabad: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Wednesday that the present democratic dispensation strongly believed in freedom of expression and unlike the past four years, no news channel would be off-aired, no talk show or programme would be banned and no newspaper would be closed during its tenure. The minister was speaking […]