ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: A special committee set up by Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro moved quickly on Saturday, making two proposals to settle a row with journalists who boycotted the upper house on Friday to protest against alleged misbehaviour of police with them. The committee of three senators made interim recommendations that the Press Information Department […]
QUETTA, Feb 14: The vicechancellor of Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences has said new building of the campus will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs1 billion. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday at the university auditorium, Dr Abbas Chaudhry stated that Rs40 million had been sanctioned by the […]
Date: February 15 – 17, 2004 Location: Kotri Kotri is an important city of Dadu district, Sindh. Located on the hub of Pakistan Railway main Karachi-Lahore line, it is a central junction for trains going towards the interior of Sindh and Baluchistan. With growth of population, Kotri has almost become a suburb of the bigger […]
Karachi .Feb.14:Maqbool Ahmed a reporter associated with English daily was beaten by two certain suspects in a moving min-bus on busy MA Jinnah Road near Lightouse on Friday . The Journalist said that two persons entered into mini-bus of W-11 at jama Cloth and one of them sat with him .The suspect pulled out a […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said the government holds media in high esteem, reiterating that it had no intentions to come in the way of the Press and would like that the media continued to enjoy the freedom in future also, said an official statement. Speaking at a dinner he […]
QUETTA, Feb 12: The crimes branch of police has submitted a charge-sheet with the Special Court for Suppression of Terrorism against Khawar Mehdi Rizvi and two others. They were arrested in treason case for working with two French journalists to prepare a fake video of Taliban near the border area. Judge Mohammad Hashim Kakar on […]
LONDON: A solemn ceremony was held in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons on Wednesday evening where late Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman, the founder of the Jang Group, was showered with befitting tributes for his excellent and invaluable services to Muslim/Pakistani journalism. Speakers including a member of the House of Lords, MPs, Prospective Parliamentary […]
KARACHI, Feb 12: Speakers at a workshop on “Freedom of information” on Thursday highlighted the need for access to information to empower the masses with regard to their civil rights and provide a link with the development of the civil society. Terming the Freedom of Information Ordinance, 2002, a good beginning despite its inherent inadequacies, […]
LAHORE, Feb 12: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Thursday that he had approved the housing colony for Lahore journalists which would soon be launched after a legislation by the assembly. Talking to newsmen at the Fortress Stadium here, Pervaiz Elahi said he had approved a summary for the colony, permitting a grant of Rs200 […]
During the past two weeks, while emotions of the entire nation had been at a high pitch over the safety of our nuclear assets and the fate of nuclear scientists, there emerged another weak area of our national psyche which needed careful and immediate handling. To one’s dismay one discovered that the combination of the […]
The recent showdown, call it with any name, between the media and the government on the sensitive nuclear issue has left behind some important lessons to learn. The first lesson is that the government’s media policy is not only absurd but indeed harmful to the very ideals that it itself claims to champion. Perhaps before […]
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday the President accused the press of being irresponsible According to him all those writing about the government and the army’s involvement in the leakages of the nuclear know how were doing a disservice to Pakistan. “Stop this,” the general thundered and said “You don’t know what would be […]
SLAMABAD, Feb 9: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) on Monday launched here a wireless local loop project to provide new telephone connections in remote areas of the country. The PTCL has entered into a $500 million contract with a Chinese firm, Huawei Technologies, to implement the plan. The agreement between the two parties was […]
The launch of a television channel for Azad Jammu and Kashmir is a welcome development which will provide opportunities for the promotion of the region’s languages, arts and culture. Christened AJK TV, the new channel has been funded by a Rs 340 million grant from the federal government and consists of one television station and […]
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