ISLAMABAD, July 04 2006: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani on July 03 categorically stated that the government will take punitive measures against illegal cable operators. The minister said, “Illegal channels are not allowed and punitive measures would be taken with all available resources at the disposal of the government to check such […]
ISLAMABAD, June 29 2006: Managing Director, Pakistan Television, Ashraf Azim has left for Paris to attend the Media Conference of developed countries. The latest trends of the TV production would be discussed in the Conference, says a press release issued on June 28. Media representatives across the world would participate in the Conference while Ashraf […]
KARACHI, June 28: Only one state witness appeared before the Nishtar Park tribunal of inquiry on June 27 and proceedings were adjourned till June 28 after a very brief sitting. Mohammad Bin Yousuf, reporter of a television network, who was present in the press camp at the time of the blast, described the scene and […]
KARACHI, June 27 2006: The University of Karachi is going to have its own FM radio, to be the first in any varsity of the province. To be installed at the Dr Feroze Ahmed Institute of Mass Communication with a cost of Rs 2.7 million, the radio station would have a transmission circumference of 14km. […]
JACOBABAD, June 24 2006: Television reporter Mukesh Rupeta and cameraman Sanjay Kumar were granted bail by the second civil judge and judicial magistrate here on June 23. They were booked under section 419, 465, 471 of the PPC, 3-A of the Official Secret Act 1923 by the SHO of the Airport police station on behalf […]
PESHAWAR, June 24 2006: Central Employees Union of Pakistan Television has appealed to President Pervez Musharraf to intervene to solve problems of PTV employees. Speaking at a function held to give TV sets to the retired employees of the corporation, Mohammad Saleem Khan, president of the PTV Central Employees Union, said that the corporation had […]
KARACHI (APP), June 20 2006 – There is a need for the creation of state-of-the-art media training centres and mass communication institutions for the specialised training and education of media persons. This was stressed in what was termed as “Karachi Declaration” issued here after the conclusion of the SAFMA National Conference. The three-day moot was […]
HYDERABAD, June 19 2006: A television cable network of Badin on June 18 accused a local journalist of taking two cable connections and harassing the service providers. Speaking at a news conference at the Hyderabad press club here on June 18, the seven partners of the cable network alleged that the newsmen had taken two […]
KARACHI, June 19 2006: Eminent writer Khaled Ahmed has said theologising social issues on television is a dangerous development and the clerics in Pakistan have enough power to overrule all laws. “The clergy wants the removal of everything that is not Islamic and everything else that stands for lack of joy,” Ahmed said as key […]
KARACHI, June 18 2006: Speakers at a workshop on June 17 said that journalists of South Asia should come together for taking a joint initiative to evolve a code of conduct for reporting disaster events in the backdrop of recent experiences of covering massive natural calamities of Tsunami and Oct 8 earthquake in the region. […]
LAHORE, June 18 2006: The Cable Operators Association has asked the government to withdraw Rs 25 tax on new cable connection otherwise they would go on strike throughout the Country. Talking to the press on June 17 at Lahore Press Club, General Secretary of the association Imran Nadeem set a deadline of June 22 for […]
KARACHI, June 17 2006: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Thursday demanded stern action against those holding jirgas in Shikarpur and Jacobabad.In a press release issued here on Thursday, it condemned the decree issued by a jirga under which parties in dispute were made to give away girls of their families to each […]
ISLAMABAD, June 17 2006: The Senate mediation committee passed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Amendment) Bill 2005 without following the rules, said Raza Rabbani, leader of the opposition in the Senate, on June 16. He said the quorum was not complete when the meeting was held on May 31. “According to the constitution, the […]
KARACHI, June 16 2006: The State Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Senator Tariq Azeem, highlighting the significance of radio as a medium for the dissemination of information, has said that it would also be revived as a medium in the country. He stated this during his visit to the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), Broadcasting House, […]
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