Protesters demonstrating against a private television station attacked the Karachi Press Club (KPC)on February 29, 2004, seriously wounding a guard and damaging the club’s property. According to media reports, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the KPC’s premises and chanted slogans against a programme aired by Geo television station, which had reportedly offended the Shiite Muslim […]
SHIKARPUR: Five persons, including a minor girl and a teenage bride, were killed on the pretext of Karo-kari in upper Sindh and neighbouring Balochistan area during the last three days. Hidayat, 28, was shot dead by her husband, Momin Mahar, in Dal village, Lakhi taluka, Shikarpur district, on Sunday. The Chak police have registered a […]
Mr. Arif Nizami, editor of the daily “The Nation” and executive editor of the daily “Nawa-i-Waqt”, says the government has banned the placement of government advertisements in newspapers belonging to the Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications, one of Pakistan’s leading media organisations. According to press reports, Nizami said the ban contradicts Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali’s […]
Mr. Arif Nizami, editor of the daily “The Nation” and executive editor of the daily “Nawa-i-Waqt”, says the government has banned the placement of government advertisements in newspapers belonging to the Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications, one of Pakistan’s leading media organisations. According to press reports, Nizami said the ban contradicts Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali’s […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: The Supreme Court on Wednesday again adjourned till March 15, the hearing of APNS petition challenging the Seventh Wage Board Award. The Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Rana Bhagwandas, and Justice Sardar Raza Khan waited for the whole day, but the counsel for APNS, Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, […]
KARACHI (Feb 26: The Sindh committee of the Council of Pakistan newspaper Editors (CPNE) at its meeting here on Wednesday considered threadbare the issue of accreditation of correspondents and photographers by the Sindh Information department for the year 2004. The committee declared that the endorsement of the application form for accreditation when given under the […]
LAHORE —Feb, 26: Editor The Nation Arif Nizami has said that Hameed Nizami died on February 25,1962from suffocation caused by Ayub’s Martial Law. Unfortunately, the Nawa-i-Waqt publications was facing a similar situation even today and so was the case with The Nation. Rather worse.’There is no democracy in the country,” he asserted. In his opening […]
QUETTA:Feb.25: A powerful bomb went off outside the boundary wall of daily Jang at Mir Khalilur Rehman Road here on Tuesday. The bomb that exploded with a big bang at around 10:22 am smashed windowpanes of nearby buildings, shaking the nerves of already frightened people of the city, who have been hearing such explosions since […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (Apnec) elected on Saturday office-bearers for the 2004-06 term. Pervez Shaukat has been elected chairman and Nasir Chishti general secretary. The other office-bearers are: Vice-chairman Mohammad Sharif; Imran Farooq Butt, Najmus Saqib and Ikram Bukhari, assistant secretaries-general; and Khalid Mehboob, treasurer. The following were elected to the […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Two persons were killed and three journalists were critically injured in two seperate road accidents on Monday evening, police said. Tariq Hashmi, Zakir Hussain and Javaid Judoon were on their way to Abbotabad when they met with the accident. The three were injured when the taxi they were travelling in collided with […]
HYDERABADFeb,24:TheDepartrnent of Mass Communication, University of Sindh, organised an orientation day for the newcomÂers of the department, who enrolled for the session, 2004. The Chairperson of the department Prof Her Bux Makheiani on occasion highlighted the facilities available id the department.He said that in modem days in any part of the world no one could […]
ISLAMABAD.Feb 24 :The Petition of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society against the law laying down conditions of service for its employees will now begin on regular basis from Wednesday. The case was listed for Monday but due to the objection raised by the APNS Counsel that the constitutional Petition required a Full bench of three […]
RAWALPINDI (February 24 2004): Rejecting the double standards of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), the Cable operators have said that some vested interest forces are playing a dirty game with 1600 Cable operators of the country, which could deprive country from huge revenue. “If Pemra didn’t stop this nefarious game, we will knock […]
LAHORE (February 23 2004): The Punjab cabinet meeting, presided by chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, approved legislative measures regarding Bill for Journalists Housing Foundation to be presented in the provincial assembly on Monday. The chief minister apprised the cabinet of various steps taken in connection with the sacred month of Muharram on the occasion. Pervaiz […]
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