ISLAMABAD (February 13 2008): A 16-programme radio series, ‘Hamari Tarraqui, Hamaray Masael’ (Our Development, Our Problems) was launched in collaboration with British High Commission to mark the National Women Day here on Tuesday. The series is based on women-related issues, gender equity and women’s rights. The themes of the series include women’s political rights, women’s […]
KARACHI, Feb 12: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday disposed of all three petitions challenging the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinance after the Pemra counsel informed the court that the ordinance had lapsed and no action was pending or could be taken under it. The petitions were moved by Sindh Bar Council members Mustafa […]
LAHORE, Feb 11: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) will not allow television channels to broadcast positions of candidates during the vote-count. They will be expected to report only after the returning officer at a polling station officially makes it public. This was announced at a conference on ‘unite for election’ arranged by the […]
ISLAMABAD: Mushtaq Ahmed Malik, a senior bureaucrat of Secretariat Services, has been appointed Chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) with immediate effect. Malik assumed the charge of the authority’s chairman after the expiry of term of his predecessor Iftikhar Rashid on Friday. The new Pemra chairman Mushtaq Ahmed Malik is known as a […]
KARACHI (February 10 2008): Caretaker Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Nisar A. Memon has called upon the media, civil society and the political stakeholders to help make polling on February 18 peaceful, fair, free and transparent. To make the polling safe and the occasion free from any internal or external threat to peace, there […]
LAHORE: The Pakistani government has allowed the screening of Bollywood movie ‘Welcome’ in the country, softening its stance on the long-standing ban on exhibition of Indian films in the country, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday. “The government has (previously) allowed Indian films which are not shot in India and made by producers not based […]
PESHAWAR: Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has found that Pakistan Television (PTV)’s coverage of the parliamentary elections is focused on parties that support President Pervez Musharraf and the federal government. In a report released on Wednesday, the global media watchdog states that the president and his allies were the subject of 84.9 percent of the political […]
Reporters Without Borders has monitored the state-owned TV broadcaster PTV’s coverage of the parliamentary election campaign since 28 January and has found that, despite an effort to assign some space to all the main political parties, most of the air time has been given over to the parties that support President Pervez Musharraf, the federal […]
PESHAWAR, Feb 3: Raiding parties have been formed by the capital city police officer to trace the people running illegal FM channels in parts of the city. Police claimed to have unearthed such a channel which was operating in the jurisdiction of Gulbahar police station. Those who were running the radio station were arrested. The […]
HYDERABAD: Caretaker Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Nisar A. Memon said Saturday that media got maximum freedom since 2002 due to the positive steps being taken by President Pervez Musharraf in this direction. Talking to media persons at the local circuit house he said five years ago there was only PTV channel but […]
The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) will start an FM radio station soon to create awareness about tuberculosis, leprosy and other infectious diseases, said Vice Chancellor, DUHS, Professor Masood Hameed. He said this while addressing a seminar on infectious diseases to mark the World Leprosy Day on Thursday. Hameed said that about half of […]
LAHORE (January 28 2008): The Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Nisar A Memon, has said that defence of Pakistan is undefeatable, and urged the national media to play its role positively for the promotion of national integrity. He was addressing the concluding session of a two-day conference on ‘National Integrity and Media’, organised by […]
LAHORE (January 27 2008): The Punjab governor has made it clear that Pakistan badly needs the support of her print and electronic media to establish national integrity to counter the anti-Pakistani propaganda by the international media. Khalid Maqbool told the opening session of a two-day conference on “national integrity and media,” organised by the Punjab […]
The Sindh High Court (SHC) dismissed the application of a cable TV operator against non-validation of its license by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). Four Aces cable TV operator, who is running the network in North Nazimabad, , submitted that PEMRA was not issuing it fresh license for telecasting the satellite TV channels. […]
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