• February 11, 2023
• General News

Senior working and retired journalists, photojournalists, columnists and broadcasters were given awards to acknowledge their contributions and services at a prestigious and memorable function of “First Media Awards 2022-23” here at Rawalpindi Arts Council. Veteran politician and artiste Senator Taj Haider, former Naib Tehsil Nazim Sajjad Khan, President of All Pakistan Overseas Youth Federation Asma […]

• February 10, 2023
• General News

LAHORE: Senior Member Board of Revenue Punjab Nabeel Javed chaired a meeting in the board committee room regarding the matters of the Punjab Journalist Housing Foundation. The Member (Colonies) Shahid Niaz, DGPR Rubina Afzal, Haseeb Zaidi and others were present in the meeting. A detailed briefing was given by the member (colonies) while the SMBR […]

• February 10, 2023
• General News

LAHORE: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is all prepared to hold country’s first digital census. In this regard, the PBS conducted an interactive session with senior media personnel at Provincial Census Coordination Centre (P3C) here on Thursday. The main purpose was to brief media personnel about the scope, background and importance of Pakistan’s upcoming first […]

• February 10, 2023
• General News, Media Development

KARACHI: The Association of Electronic Media Editors and News Directors (AEMEND), in a meeting held in Lahore on Thursday, raised concerns over the hurdles and challenges faced by journalists and mediapersons across the country. The meeting, chaired by AEMEND President Azhar Abbas, was also attended by stakeholders from Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, and Islamabad. In the […]

• February 10, 2023
• General News, Information Technology

ISLAMABAD: The government has barred the Pakistan Telecommunica­tion Authority (PTA) from blocking any website without consulting the Minis­try of Information Tech­nology and Tele­communi­cation. The decision was made in a ministerial committee meeting chaired by IT Minister Syed Aminul Haque. The committee was established by the prime minister on Feb 6 after PTA blocked Wikipedia, the […]

• February 10, 2023
• General News

LAHORE: Journalist Imran Riaz Khan knocked on the doors of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday, seeking removal of his name from the Exit Control List (ECL) and Passport Control List (PCL) saying his name was added arbitrarily and in a haphazard manner “relying upon presumptive considerations”. The anchorperson filed a petition through advocate […]

• February 10, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Wikipedia, Thursday, reprimanded Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for blocking the website in the country and recommended prior consultation for closing any website in future. Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque chaired the Ministerial Committee meeting regarding the blockage of Wikipedia, here on Thursday. Federal Minister for Law […]

• February 9, 2023
• General News

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two women were killed and 20 other persons, including children, sustained injuries when a speeding passenger rammed into a roadside tree near Paniala on Tuesday. Local residents said that a passenger pick up it a roadside tree when the driver lost control over the vehicle due to over speeding near Paniala. As […]

• February 9, 2023
• Social Media

LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister Fahad Hussain says digital media should be used to stop societal polarisation and that a code of conduct and journalism ethics should be created for the positive use of social media. Mr Hussain said on the opening day of a two-day international conference on “Revisiting Relationships between Journalism and […]

• February 9, 2023
• Access to Information

ISLAMABAD: The Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) has written letters to speaker of the National Assembly, chairmen of the Senate Standing Committee on Information and other senators, urging them to play a positive role in ensuring that the regressive amendment in the Right of Access to Information (RAI) Act 2017 be rejected and […]

• February 9, 2023
• General News

ISLAMABAD      –   Prominent journalists at a twoday mobile journalism workshop have sensitized the media persons about the importance and technical aspects of mobile journalism. The workshop was held at the Information Service Academy (ISA) and organised by the Pakistan Information Centre for the capacity building of journalists. On the first day of the workshop, eminent […]

• February 9, 2023
• General News

The eighteenth anniversary of journalist Allah Noor and Ameer Nawab, who were martyred on February 7, 2005, was observed with great devotion and respect in District Press Club Wana. Deputy Commissioner South Waziristan Lower Muhammad Nasir Khan, DSP Headquarter Nadir Khan, Youth Officer South Waziristan Lower Sardar Ali Wazir, Tahsildar Wana, Taj Muhammad Wazir from […]

• February 8, 2023
• General News

THE country was back in a familiar, dark place last week when the PTA blocked Wikipedia over the charge that it hosted and would not remove ‘objectionable content’ the government deemed blasphemous. After a warning to the information giant to remove the offensive content 48 hours earlier, the regulator went ahead with the ban. The […]

• February 8, 2023
• General News

Minister of State for Law and Justice Shahadat Awan on Tuesday said there was no plan under consideration of giving advertisements to social media journalists. Responding to a supplementary question, raised by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Senator Faisal Saleem Rehman, the state minister said that there were certain rules such as: Public Procurement Regulatory Authority and […]