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Monthly Archives: November 2022

Reporters without Borders slams curbs on Fact Focus website

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KARACHI: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Pakistani authorities to ensure respect for citizens’ right to journalism. The call came after Fact Focus, an investigative website, was rendered totally or partially inaccessible after it posted a story about the extraordinary wealth accumulated by the outgoing army chief’s family since he assumed the charge. “It is […]


Journalist Tony Navaid Rashid passes away

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Famous Journalist and photographer Tony Navaid Rashid died today. He long worked in the entertainment sector. People admired his charm and personality, and he was a guy of many abilities. In addition to being a host, Tony Navaid Rashid was also a photographer, actor, and singer. As we watched him interview a variety of artists […]


Print media fight for survival in Pakistan

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Pakistan print media is struggling to survive as the public is moving rapidly toward digital sources. As per the Deutsche Welle report, Pakistan’s news hawkers showed their fear of losing their jobs as people started relying more on digital and social media platforms. Different news vendors in South Asian states as a whole are having […]


Sindh Inspector general of police (IGP) orders probe into ‘fake cases’ against journalists

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KARACHI: Sindh police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon, concerned over reports of registration of alleged fake cases against journalists, has ordered the formation of a probe team with terms of reference. Officials said on Wednesday the inspector general of police took action after a delegation of journalists met him and shown their concerns over the registration […]


Women University Multan (WUM) organizes awareness walk on World Television Day

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An awareness seminar and walk was organized on the occasion of World Television Day by Department Mass Communication, Women University Multan at Matital Campus of Women University Multan. Famous personalities of Television including Beauru Chief South today Jamshad rizwani, Malik Shahadat Bureau Chief of Geo News, Senior Reporter Umair Ali from Ab tak news, Sohaib […]


Google to commence operations next month: Senator

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Afnan Ullah said on Wednesday that Google team would be visiting Islamabad next month to commence operations in Pakistan. “A delegation of Google will visit Pakistan on December 11 to start operations,” he said, adding that the platform will provide 15,000 scholarships to Pakistani citizens after starting operations in […]


Lahore High Court (LHC) takes notice of delay in appointment of Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) commissioners

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ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has taken notice of the delay in the appointment of Information Commissioners in the Pakistan Information Commission (PIC). It is reliably learnt that a constitutional petition has been moved by tax lawyer Waheed Shahzad Butt through international Constitutional/public interest litigation lawyer and human rights activist […]


Sindh High Court (SHC) throws out petition against Joy land

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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking a ban on the movie Joy land. A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh and Justice Yousuf Ali Sayeed turned down the plea for the reasons to be recorded later on. Moulvi Iqbal Haider, a regular litigant, filed the petition against […]


1972: Fifty Years Ago: Attack on DAWN

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EDITORIAL: An official spokesman of the Central Government has … made a vicious attack on this newspaper and its Editor. It would demean these columns to take serious notice of the foul-mouthed invective used on the personal plane…. However, the vague unspecified allegations about the policy of this newspaper… require refutation. … The present policy […]


Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) seeks judicial commission to probe Arshad Sharif’s murder

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Tuesday requested Chief Justice of Pakistan to constitute a commission headed by a serving judge of the apex court to probe into the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif. In a letter addressed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Umer Ata Bandial, PFUJ President Afzal Butt said that […]


Is Joyland facing curbs for humanising transpersons?

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In the month of May this year, Joyland directed by Saim Sadiq made history when it became the first Pakistani feature film to win a feminist-themed award at the prestigious the Cannes Film Festival. Since the project hadn’t been shown in Pakistan, it generated a great deal of curiosity among cinephiles about its subject matter. […]


Vawda appears before journalist’s murder fact-finding committee

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ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda on Monday appeared before the fact-finding committee established for the investigation of senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder case. Faisal reached the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) ​​headquarters in Islamabad and appeared before the fact-finding committee. Talking to media personnel after his appearance, Vawda stated that the agency had […]


Tasnim says has no evidence of murder plot against Imran, journalist

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LONDON: Syed Tasnim Haider Shah, who claimed that the assassination plot against PTI chief Imran Khan and slain senior journalist Arshad Sharif was made by the PMLN in London, has accepted he has no evidence of any kind to prove his claims and that PM Imran Khan’s shooter has reached Kenya and belongings of Arshad […]


Lawyers move Peshawar High Court for ban on ‘un-Islamic’ movie Joy land

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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday directed the federal government, regulators, filmmaker and the country’s top religious body to respond by Nov 23 to a petition seeking ban on the movie Joy land and removal of its trailers from social media. A bench consisting of Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Arshad Ali issued the […]