ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The elder daughter of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has written a rap song expressing her anguish over her mother’s death. The song, entitled “I Would Take the Pain Away”, and a five-minute video of clips and photographs of Ms Bhutto has been broadcast by PTV and posted on the video-sharing website […]
PESHAWAR: Most people in Swat are becoming regular listeners of the FM radio channel run by the Maulana Fazlullah-led Swati Taliban as they want to know about new threats or decrees issued by the militants. The nighttime broadcasts are also heard in certain areas outside Swat district. This has enabled the Taliban to spread their […]
ISLAMABAD: Editors and senior journalists of daily ‘The News’ and the Jang Group of Publications have decided to sue the Pakistan and Dubai-based TV channel, ARY One World, in Pakistani, UK, Canadian and US courts, for airing baseless and false allegations against them, which amounted to blatant and malicious libel and defamation before TV viewers […]
KARACHI: Federal Information Minister Sherry Rehman urged journalist organizations to introduce ‘self-regulatory systems’ and ‘codes of conduct’ to regulate themselves at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday. Rehman said that the media was playing an important role in strengthening democracy in the country. Speaking at the Karachi Press Club’s ‘Meet the Press’ program Rehman said […]
LONDON, Oct 21- A Pakistani film “Ramchand Pakistani” has been nominated for the award of “The Sutherland Trophy” at the on going 52nd London Film Festival. Director Mehreen Jabbar’s powerful debut film set on the Indo-Pakistan Thar Desert border and based on a true life story is among 12 films short listed for the coveted […]
LAHORE, May 17: Lawyers on Saturday vowed to set off on a ‘long march’ to Islamabad or Rawalpindi on June 10 for pressuring the government for reinstating the deposed judges. The decision was taken at an All Pakistan Lawyers’ Representative Convention. “A committee will decide whether the march should kick off from Karachi, Lahore or […]
LANDI KOTAL, April 13: Another illegal FM radio station, established by a controversial cleric went on air in Landi Kotal on Saturday evening. The initial half-an-hour broadcast was consisted of the translation of Quranic verses and Naath. The radio station established at a mosque adjacent to the Landi Kotal railway station is the first of […]
KARACHI, Jan 12: Experts at a seminar held here on Saturday lambasted the negative role the media has played in exposing people, particularly children, to violence, which, in turn, desensitizes them and in certain cases prompts them to mimic the brutal acts they see on screen. “Exposure to violent media has long-lasting effects and these […]
KARACHI, April 12: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman has said the recently tabled Pakistan Electronic Media Authority (Amendment) Bill, introduced by her in the National Assembly on Friday, “is not a validation of the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO),” enforced after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3 last […]
KOHAT, June 27: The local Taliban have allowed cable operators to air 12 more TV channels, including a sports channel, raising the total number to 25. Cable operators’ spokesman Asad told Dawn they had received a message to air more channels, but there was still ban on popular channels. The Taliban had banned cable transmissions […]
WHILE he was watching a movie, Athar Shah Khan’s family were preparing to go on an outing. Suddenly, the video went crazy, as the old videos on cassettes had a wont to, and he called his son back from the door. The young boy came back, took the remote, pressed a few buttons and returned […]
ISLAMABAD: Geo TV viewers were once again deprived of their favourite talk show the ‘Capital Talk’ as the channel went off the air in most areas of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Tuesday. The Geo TV went off the air in the sectors of I-8, I-9, I-10 and G-8 and almost half […]
ISLAMABAD: The Government of India is contemplating blocking signals of Pakistan-and-Muzaffarabad-based radio stations beaming into the Poonch and Rajouri districts of the Indian-held Kashmir (IHK). The Indian government has already banned Pakistani television channels in the IHK. IHK authorities told reporters that the Indian Ministry of Defence has directed the All India Radio (AIR) to […]
KARACHI (June 19 2008): Pakistan Broadcasters Association has strongly condemned the unwarranted attack on the offices of Kook TV in Multan by some unidentified miscreants that resulted in injuries to two journalists of its Multan bureau and causing serious loss to equipment and property. Pakistan Broadcasters Association, in a statement issued by their Secretariat on […]
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