KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was informed on Tuesday that no entertainment duty had been collected from cinemas since Sept 2005, when the step was taken to save the entertainment industry from a financial crisis. The decision to exempt picture houses from entertainment duty was taken by the governor after a meeting with cinema owners, who […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has established a round-the-clock Complaint Call Centre (0800-73672) to facilitate public complaints against any aspect of broadcast media or cable TV networks and to take prompt necessary action to address them. The public can now lodge their complaints, suggestions or comments with regard to service, quality of content […]
By Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: A Senate special committee on Monday expressed concerns over the plummeting ratings and viewership of PTV News and instructed its officials to keep pace with private channels. The committee meeting, chaired by leader of the house Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari, was held at the parliament house to see if provincial quota […]
LAHORE: Film director Syed Noor suffered a mild stroke on Saturday and was admitted to the Sheikh Zayed Hospital. According to Mr Noor’s close circles, he was having breakfast at his home around 11am when he suffered what was later diagnosed as ‘stroke in evolution’. He was rushed to hospital where he was now said […]
LAHORE: After hearing the final arguments in a writ petition filed by Independent Music Group SMC (Pvt) Limited (Geo Super), the honourable Lahore High Court (LHC) decided the petition, directing PTV that instead of sub-licensing cable and satellite rights of ICC events to Indian Ten Sports, PTV must sell these rights only through open and […]
LONDON: The BBC said Friday it welcomed a promise by prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to investigate the blocking of the BBC World News channel in the country after it showed a documentary about the Taliban. Cable operators pulled the channel nationwide on November 29 amid a row over the “Secret Pakistan” documentary and amid […]
Karachi: On November 15, a channel in a programme had allegedly uttered highly unwarranted, insulting and defamatory allegations against Meraj Mohammad Khan, a highly respected veteran politician of Pakistan and a founder member of the PPP, who was declared by ZA Bhutto as his political successor. Senator (retd) Iqbal Haider, a senior advocate of the […]
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain Friday praised Geo TV for live coverage of his telephonic speech in Karachi and Hyderabad on the occasion of Youm-e-Shohada. He said Geo TV, through its coverage, showed that lakhs of people attended the MQM rallies in Karachi and Hyderabad. However, on other TV channels’ objections to […]
Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: While the Supreme Court is all set to take the mega recruitment scandal of present regime on Wednesday, the PPP government has made a failed attempt to pressure the concerned department to confront the apex court by regularizing the services of wrongly inducted more than 365 employees. The chairman of the authority […]
Sir: Workers made redundant by certain television channels staged a protest against the non-payment of their dues on November 27, 2011. Where are the leaders of the PFUJ and the RIUJ, and what is the journalist union leaders’ stand on the issue? The protestors blocked the road in front of two television channel’s offices for […]
The All Pakistan Cable Operators Association must immediately unblock the BBC World News television channel in Pakistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Operators began censoring the channel on Tuesday in response to a documentary they considered “anti-Pakistan,” and threatened to pull other foreign news channels, the BBC said. “This is a straw in a […]
The tendency to ban sources of information appears to be growing in our country. In the recent past all kinds of websites have been banned, either on the basis of “morality” or on the basis of “national security”. We now appear to be taking this trend to a new level. The All Pakistan Cable Operators […]
LAHORE: The Centre for Peace and Democracy (CPD) has condemned the All Pakistan Cable Operators Association for imposing a ban on the BBC World, accusing it of intolerable interference in press freedom, which will also undermine the reputation of the democratic government. The CPD said that the Pakistan media was now at the centre of […]
By: Shoaib Ahmed LAHORE: The first episode of the Pakistan Children Television’s programme “Sim Sim Hamara”, an educational and capacity-building TV series for children, will be aired on Dec 10 at national TV. The TV series will be a high-quality early education resource for a large number of children who lack access to formal education […]
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