• August 28, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD—The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) will set up protest camps outside regulator PEMRA’s Islamabad headquarters and regional offices to press for restoring ARY News transmission. The channel remains off cable networks since August 8 for airing a controversial statement by PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s chief of staff Shahbaz Gill. PEMRA has not lifted […]

• August 28, 2022
• General News

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has disposed of a petition against a ban imposed by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on the live telecast of the speeches of former prime minister Imran Khan. The SHC disposed of a petition against the ban imposed on the live telecast of the speeches of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf […]

• August 28, 2022
• General News

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has decided to approach Islamabad High Court (IHC) for the live-telecast of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s international telethon for flood victims, scheduled to be held on Monday night (today). The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) last week had imposed a ban on broadcasting live speeches of PTI Chairman Imran […]

• August 28, 2022
• General News

KARACHI: A publisher of books and magazine and human rights activist was taken away by four unidentified men in civvies along with some uniformed policemen, from his book shop in Urdu Bazaar, his friends and rights activists said on Saturday. They said that Fahim Habib Baloch was sitting at his book shop, Ilm-u-Adab Publishers, on […]

• August 28, 2022
• General News

HARIPUR: The police on Saturday registered a case against a man for intimidating and harassing a local journalist as media bodies demanded early arrest of the suspect. Waqar Ali, reporter of an Urdu daily, lodged a complaint with the police, stating that he received a phone call from a man during early hours of Saturday, […]

• August 28, 2022
• General News

TOBA TEK SINGH: Shorkot Press Club president and senior journalist Muhammad Younis was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Saturday. As per police, the deceased journalist, who was a correspondent of Urdu language daily newspaper Express, was on his way to his farmland at Mouza Manganwala on his motorcycle when two men hiding in a […]

• August 28, 2022
• Information Technology

ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Saturday, managed to shut down the illegal website which had stolen companies’ data from the SECP’s website and gave free access to everybody through the said website. Sources told Business Recorder here on Saturday that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has taken action on the complaint […]

• August 27, 2022
• General News

Peshawar: Extension of the RTI Act to the newly merged districts is an excellent step that would lead to a big social change and political development in the right direction. Due to merger of the erstwhile FATA and PATA into KP, the tribal peoples have the same status as the peoples of KP are enjoying. […]

• August 27, 2022
• General News

KARACHI: Deputy Inspector General of Police, Hyderabad, Senior Superintendent of Police, Thatta, and other police officials appeared before the Sindh High Court, following the notice taken by Chief Justice of Sindh High Court on the arrest of a journalist Nizam Samon of district Thatta. On Thursday August 25, 2022, DIG Hyderabad Syed Pir Muhammad Shah […]

• August 27, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Friday accused Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) of playing a ‘double game’ with cable operators in matters related to the suspension of ARY News transmission. “PEMRA has directed cable operators to keep ARY News transmission suspended,” PFUJ secretary general Rana Azeem said while talking to ARY […]

• August 27, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD: Telephone and internet services in at least 10 districts of Balochistan were partially restored, hours after they were suspended due to the damage caused to the cable network. Meanwhile, the government has asked mobile telecom companies to enable consumers in the flood-hit areas in all the provinces to make calls, even with zero balance. […]

• August 27, 2022
• Social Media

LAHORE    –    A lo­cal court on Friday extend­ed physical remand of a doc­tor, involved in social media trolling against institu­tions, for another two days. The Federal Investigations Agency’s (FIA) officials pro­duced the accused Dr Sahar Saud before Judicial Magis­trate Ghulam Murtaza Virk amid strict security on ex­piry of one-day physical re­mand. The FIA prosecutor submitted […]

• August 26, 2022
• Broadcasting

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday has issued a contempt of court notice to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman Saleem Baig on a petition over the non-implementation of the court’s order to restore ARY News transmission. In a major development in ARY News transmission suspension case, the SHC has issued a […]

• August 26, 2022
• General News

ISLAMABAD—The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has condemned the decision of the GNN Television management to take prominent analyst Arif Hameed Bhatti off the air. Bhatti, a former PFUJ president, was told he could not be allowed on air Wednesday. PFUJ termed this an attack on press freedom and has convened an emergent meeting […]