• March 28, 2023
• General News

PESHAWAR: A Peshawar additional district and session judge has accepted the application of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf social media activist Ikram Khatana for pre-arrest bail. Mr Khatana was named in an FIR registered by the police against him on the charges of insulting state institutions, armed forces and their senior officers. The complaint against him was lodged […]

• March 28, 2023
• Right to Information, Views and Opinion

AFTER years of litigation, redrafts and deliberations with the relevant stakeholders and bureaucracy, Punjab finally enacted the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act in December 2022. This did not come easy, though. In 2017, my friend (advocate Ali Chughtai) and I reunited at a well-known eatery in Lahore. The experience would have been great, but […]

• March 28, 2023
• General News

LAHORE: The Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has sought a report from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) about the whereabouts of PTI social media activist Azhar Mashwani, as police investigators have been clueless for the past five days, despite the registration of an abduction case on a court order a couple of […]

• March 28, 2023
• Broadcasting

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan National Heart Association (Panah) has appealed to the electronic media regulator to stop media coverage of former federal minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed as he smokes cigars during press conferences and this can influence the young generation. Moreover, it has demanded from Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to issue a general instruction not […]

• March 28, 2023
• General News

An investigation by the Kenya government authorities maintains that Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif’s killing was a case of “mistaken identity” and there was no murder planning involved, according to the embargoed official Kenyan government investigation report. The Kenyan govt report says that Arshad Sharif was killed by four members of the para-military General Service Unit […]

• March 28, 2023
• Broadcasting

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Monday banned live and recorded coverage of rallies, and public gatherings in Islamabad ahead of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s court appearance in the federal capital. According to details, PEMRA has issued a notification, stating that the ban has been extended to cover public meetings and rallies […]

• March 28, 2023
• General News

PESHAWAR: The family of a slain journalist from Swat, who was recently awarded Tamgha-e-Imtiaz posthumously, on Monday asked the prime minister to give his heirs the plot of land which the then government had promised. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali conferred posthumously the presidential award on the slain journalist Musa Khankhel on behalf of the […]