LAHORE: Voice of America is launching an hour-long news and current affairs programme on Monday to be broadcasted from 8 to 9pm on VoA’s Urdu service which is aired on medium wave 972 and 1539 kilohertz. Murtaza Solangi will be hosting the programme from Washington studios. He will also invite toll-free phone calls from Pakistan. […]
LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court has admitted identical petitions challenging the PEMRA (Amended) Ordinance 2007 and summoned Attorney General of Pakistan for assistance on October 8.The full bench headed by Justice Muhammad Muzammal Khan passed this order while hearing two identical petitions filed on behalf of the Peoples’ Lawyers Forum (Punjab) […]
MANSEHRA, Aug 7: A TV Journalists Association was formed here on Tuesday. Nisar Ahmad Khan of DawnNews TV was elected president of the association at a meeting held at a local hotel. Source: Dawn Date:8/8/2007
ISLAMABAD, Jul 4 (APP): Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has not granted permission to any FM Radio station to air foreign broadcasts. International broadcast practices in the developed countries also do not allow indigenous FM Radio stations to sell air time for international or national news, says a press release here Wednesday. However, PEMRA […]
ISLAMABAD: Students of Jamia Faridia on Friday announced that they would take revenge from PTVÂ’s anchor Anwarul Hassan for insulting Lal Masjid chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz by taking his interview in a burqa. “We will take revenge from Hassan who in an insulting way interviewed Maulana Abdul Aziz. We know him and his family […]
KARACHI, June 30: A local FM radio has stopped hourly news bulletins syndicated by the BBC Pakistan after the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) ordered its management to immediately stop the broadcast of “all sorts of BBC content/programmes”. Pemra in a letter to the FM 103 management said: “You are hereby directed to immediately […]
ISLAMABAD: The presidential ordinance amending the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) law while the Senate is in session, has revived an old debate over such ‘instant legislation’. Even the Supreme Court once took a very serious note of such ‘high-speed law-making’ without the involvement of the Parliament when the legislature does exist, and ruled […]
KARACHI: The Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (CAP) on Saturday announced to shut down the transmissions of those TV channels which, according to them, are showing negative programmes against the solidarity of Pakistan, the armed forces and the judiciary. Addressing a crowded press conference at the Karachi Press Club, the chairman of the association, Khalid […]
KARACHI, May 29: The United Staff Organisation (CBA), Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday demanded a 35 per cent increase in salary and other allowances in the next budget. The organisation in a meeting held with General Secretary Ansarul Haque in the chair expressed its concern over the soaring prices of daily use commodities stating that […]
KARACHI (May 25 2007): Executive Committee of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society at its meeting held on May 22, 2007 at Islamabad under the chairmanship of its President, Hameed Haroon condemned the attack on the offices of the Business Recorder and Aaj TV on May 12, 2007. He urged upon the Federal Government to institute […]
KARACHI (May 25 2007): Report of Fact Finding Commission (FFC) on attack on Business Recorder and Aaj TV: 1. The APNS President, Hameed Haroon vide letter dated May 18, 2007 formed a Fact Finding Commission (FFC) on receipt of complaint of violence/attack against Aaj TV/Business Recorder. 2. THE COMMISSION COMPRISED THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS: Owais Aslam […]
The MMA government of the NWFP has finally struck a deal with the maulvi who in the past had asked his followers to resist polio vaccination. This is the same cleric who once said in an interview that he saw no reason for women to venture outside their homes –not even to get an education. […]
LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman to appear on June 15. The bench, consisting of Justice Muhammad Muzammal Khan, Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi and Justice Hamid Ali Shah, was hearing two petitions filed by advocates MD Tahir and Mohammad Ashraf. […]
LAHORE: Unidentified hackers hacked the website of a private news channel on Monday and pasted a vulgar message on it against President General Pervez Musharraf. The hackers left their message on each link of the website that remained hacked for around half an hour. The news channel immediately told its viewers that some unknown people […]
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