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Monthly Archives: February 2023

2-day training workshop on mobile journalism to be held

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A two-day training workshop on mobile journalism will be held in Karachi on 16th to 17th February 2023 under the Pakistan Information Center (PIC) project of the Press Information in which thirty working journalists would be trained. First LookתThe first training workshop of the year 2023 would be participated by working journalists from Sindh province, […]


World Radio Day being observed today

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World Radio Day is being observed today to highlight the importance of radio as a key medium of educating people, providing information and promoting freedom of expression across cultures. The theme for this year’s World Radio Day is “Radio and Peace”. On this day, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation is organizing a grand dialogue among FMs, Stream […]


All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) offers condolences

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“Sarmad Ali, President and Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani, Secretary General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society have expressed profound grief on behalf of APNS office bearers over the sad demise of Amiq-ur-Rehman Saifi, Publisher and Chief Editor of Daily Saadat, Faisalabad, Lahore and Gujranwala. The APNS office bearers offered their condolence and prayed that Almighty Allah […]


Arshad Sharif case: Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to submit report in SC tomorrow

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The special Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe the murder of senior journalist Arshad Sharif will submit its report to the Supreme Court, tomorrow (Monday). The team returned to Pakistan, last week after completing its inquiry in Kenya and the United Arab Emirates. A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Umar […]


Housing project to be launched for journalists

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Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan has said that a housing project for the members of the Kashmir Journalist Forum (KJF) will be launched within 45 days. Talking to journalists on Sunday, the PM said that in the first phase, land has been allocated in Kotli for the project where […]


Issues of TV drama and films highlighted

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The second day of the Pakistan Literature Festival (PLF) on Saturday again roped in hundreds of literature and art lovers at the Alhamra Art Centre. One of the sessions, titled TV Pakistani Samaaj Ka Tarjumaan, featured veteran actor Munawar Saeed, playwrights Noorul Huda Shah, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Bee Gul and Amna Mufti, director Kashif Nisar […]


Journalists rendering best professional services deserve appreciation: Aasma Butt

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President of All Pakistan Chinese Overseas Youth Federation (APCOYF), Aasma Ismail Butt, on Sunday said the journalists who have rendered the best professional services in every era would be appreciated as they always raised the voice of truth with their pens as the fourth pillar of the state and the mirror of the society. She […]


Dawar Visits Miran Shah Press Club

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Chairman, National Democratic Movement (NDM) MNA Mohsin Dawar visited Press Club Miran Shah on Sunday and congratulated the newly president Safdar Dawar and president of Union of Journalists, Syed Ayub and their cabinets. Speaking on the occasion, MNA Mohsin Dawar said that press clubs play a crucial role in creating awareness in the society and […]


Umar Akmal loses his cool at journalist over question on fitness

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Quetta Gladiators batsman, Umar Akmal, lost his cool and snapped at a journalist, after being questioned about his Tiktok videos and fitness. While speaking to media on Sunday in Karachi, the hard-hitting batsman wasn’t amused with the line of questioning and requested the media to refrain from talking about his personal life. “Who has told […]


The media muzzle-puzzle

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General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s dernier military dictator, was interred in Karachi on Tuesday after he was recalled by his Creator last Sunday. He had not been well for some time and passed away in self-exile in Dubai. Pakistan has had several military dictators since the 1950s. Musharraf, however, was different in many ways. Apart from […]


Autobiography of KU teacher Shahida Kazi launched

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“It’s been 60 years since I took admission in the journalism department of the University of Karachi. The department itself was barely one-year-old then and I didn’t realise at the time that I was the first female enrolling in the course back then. Then there were other firsts, too, such as my bagging first position […]


Inside the Red Zone: Saving journalism

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Journalism in the digital age is a challenge that many established practitioners are struggling with. In Pakistan, this struggle manifests itself daily on newspapers pages and television screens as reporters, editors, anchors and media executives try their best to retain readers and viewers that only a few years ago constituted a captive audience. So where […]


Pakistan Information Center (PIC) to organize workshop on “Documentary Film Making”

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Pakistan Information Center PIC, Press Information Department (PID) Gilgit will organized a 2-day long training workshop on “Documentary Film Making” to enhance journalistic capacity of local journalists at Central Press Club Gilgit. The workshop will be held on 13th and 14th of this month. Digital media Experts have been hired as a resource persons they […]


Journalists demand control of Attock Press Club

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The journalistic community of occupied Press Club Attock have stressed upon the Care Taker Chief Minister Punjab Syed Mohsin Naqvi to get the building of Press Club Attock vacated from the clutches of district management Attock enabling them to continue their solidarity with their subjugated Kashmiri journalists  of Jammu & Kashmir till their liberation from […]