World Television Day was marked across the globe including Pakistan on Monday through highlighting the importance of television as an important scientific invention which has impacted the decision making process in every sphere of life and raised awareness about significant issues globally. The day was marked by various organizations, especially educational institutions, through a number […]
ISLAMABAD – The wife of senior Pakistan journalist Arshad Sharif, who was shot dead in Kenya last month, has written a letter to President Dr. Arif Alvi, seeking a United Nations-led probe into his brutal killing. Sharif was killed near Kenyan capital Nairobi on October 23 after he reached there from Dubai as he left […]
Owais Aslam Ali, Secretary General, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) made an impromptu impassioned plea to governments to match their words in support of press freedom and safety of journalists with effective actions. He said civil society organizations work under tremendous pressures under very difficult counties and it is time for governments to focus on actions rather than words. […]
Politicians from the PTI claim on social media that Geo Television has taken down a prime-time program from YouTube, which investigated the whereabouts of state gifts sold by former prime minister Imran Khan. On November 17, politicians, belonging to the opposition political party, the PTI, alleged that Geo Television has removed from its YouTube channel […]
Several social media accounts linked to the PTI allege that screenshots of private conversations between journalists, media owners and politicians have been leaked. Social media users have posted multiple screenshots of an alleged WhatsApp conversation between reporters, television channel owners and politicians. In some conversations, reporters are being asked to spin the facts about former […]
The Karachi Union of Journalists (Workers) and the Karachi chapter of the All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation have expressed their reservations over the establishment of the Sindh Commission for the Projection of Journalists. In a statement, they said the commission did not have the representation of all journalists. They said the biggest stakeholders were journalists […]
KARACHI: The Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba held countrywide protests against film ‘Joyland on Friday. The Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba protested against “highly objectionable material” in Joyland which has recently been cleared by the provincial and federal censor board’s for screening in the cinemas.The protests were held across major cities including Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. Source: The News
Slain journalist Arshad Sharif’s widow has penned a letter requesting President Dr Arif Alvi to intervene and help in her husband’s ongoing murder investigation, saying that his family was “extremely disturbed and disappointed”, it emerged on Friday. Sharif’s widow Javeria Siddique posted the letter online which was dated November 17. Sharif was shot dead in […]
Sindh Information Minister, Sharjeel Inam Memon, on Friday, handed over cheque of annual grant of Rs.50 million to Karachi Press Club (KPC) on behalf of Sindh government. President KPC Fazil Jamili and General Secretary Rizwan Bhatti received the cheque. Secretary Information Abdul Rasheed Solangi, Director Admin Information Muhammad Yusuf Kaburu were also present on this […]
THE advancement of the internet has enabled people to obtain and distribute news messages at a rapid pace. Most of us now use social media websites and other online platforms to obtain news. The rapid distribution of news on the internet has changed the practice of the news industry. Some of the news reports may […]
The Sindh government has approved a proposal to make the Sindh High Court’s retired judge Rasheed A Razvi the first chairman of the long-awaited provincial commission for the protection of journalists and other media practitioners. The announcement was made by Information Minister Sharjeel Memon on Wednesday while briefing the media about the decisions taken in […]
The first dimension is that freedom of expression gives liberty, though under certain reasonable restraints, to express oneself by speaking or writing. The availability of freedom of expression nudges one to create an idea or hold an opinion to express without any coercion. Only can expressed views be shared. Views that remain unexpressed are unshared, […]
ISLAMABAD—Daily Jang on Thursday expressed a half-hearted regret for publishing a cartoon seen as offensive by readers, portraying the supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf as donkeys. The cartoon, published on the newspaper’s front page, also showed the party Chairman Imran Khan, using the pejorative term ‘youthia’ for PTI supporters. In its regret note, the paper […]
LAHORE: The government of Punjab has banned the screening of Saim Siddiq’s ‘Joyland’ movie, less than 24 hours after the federal government decided to lift the ban, reported local media. The notice sent by Punjab Information and Culture Department to Sarmad Sultan Khoosat on November 17 reads that the ‘Joyland’ team cannot exhibit their film […]
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