ISLAMABAD, February 15 2006: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday asked Information and Broadcasting Ministry to take steps for complete restructuring and modernisation of Pakistan Television (PTV) and Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) to prepare them to meet the emerging challenges of globalisation and proliferation of media and to compete with the private TV channels effectively. […]
PESHAWAR, Feb 9: Brimful of violence and vulgarity, Pushto CD dramas are being shown by cable operators right under the nose of the regulatory authorities. Having all alluring ingredients of a Pashto action movie, these dramas, produced by local production houses, are getting popular among citizens. “Hardly any different from Pashto movies subject-wise, the CD […]
ISLAMABAD: A private TV news station resumed transmission on Thursday after more than 12 hours off the air — a blackout imposed by the government for allowing a critic of President Pervez Musharraf to appear on air. The station resumed transmission early Thursday after 12 and half hours of suspension, according to Director News Talat […]
ISLAMABAD, February 03 2006: A meeting of Mediation Committee of the National Assembly was held here on Thursday February 2 in the Parliament House. MNA Malik Allah Yar Khan presided over the meeting on behalf of the chairman of the committee, Dr Sher Afgan Khan Niazi, who did not attend due to illness. The committee […]
KASUR, February 02 2006: This is an irrefutable fact that electronic media is a double edged sword with negative and positive effects but the same is sowing the seeds of immorality and vulgarity in the impressionable minds of the country and especially of those at Kasur that are on the verge of a disaster of […]
KARACHI, February 01 2006: The Sindh High Court issued notices to the federal culture ministry and the film censor board in a petition questioning the continued ban on import and exhibition of Indian films for Feb 23. The petitioner, Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association, submitted that the ban should be declared illegal and unconstitutional and its […]
LAHORE, January 25 2006: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) held four-hour long negotiations with Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (CAP) on Monday January 24 to resolve the ban imposed on GEO network in Pakistan (outside Sindh province) by the cable operators. PBA was presented with a six-point demand by CAP (listed below) for consideration and […]
TIMERGARA, January 24 2006: PTV’s Pushto language channel will begin transmission from March 23, says Federal Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmad. He was inaugurating a television booster here on Monday January 23. Shaikh Rashid said work was under way on launching separate PTV channels in regional languages. He said the booster had cost Rs30.5 million […]
NEW DELHI, January 23 2006: Films from India’s prolific Bollywood movie industry – officially banned for decades in Pakistan but still watched by millions there – have become legal, the head of a Pakistani producers’ group said on Sunday January 22. Pakistan outlawed public screenings of Indian films in 1965. But now, both countries are […]
LAHORE, January 21 2006: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed will formally inaugurate the country’s first-ever highest frequency ‘High Power Transmission (HPT)’ here on Saturday (today) January 21, bringing radical changes and development to news and current affairs programmes of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC). The new HPT having frequency level of […]
KARACHI, January 20 2006: Most cable television operators suspended their transmissions on Thursday January 19 night following a dispute with the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority over a ban on certain channels. Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, the Cable Operators Association of Pakistan (CAP) leaders had issued an ultimatum to the government […]
ISLAMABAD, January 19 2006: A meeting of the mediation committee was held here on Wednesday January 18 under the Chairmanship of Dr Sher Afgan to discuss the bill on amendments to Pemra Ordinance, 2002. Matiullah Jan, Media Law Policy Adviser, Internews Pakistan, gave detailed presentation to the committee on the proposed Pemra (Amendments). He proposed […]
LARKANA, January 16 2006: The commissioning of a medium-wave radio station in Larkana has been delayed owing to the lack of interest of the federal government in the project. Sources told Dawn that the Rs100 million project, including construction of 10 kilowatts low power transmitter (LPT) and four modern studios, had been completed. The LPT […]
Hasan Mansoor KARACHI, January 11 2006: Cable operators have hinted at the possibility of completely blacking out Pakistani channels if the government doesn’t lift the ban on Indian channels soon. Last month, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), which regulates satellite broadcasting in the country, banned 35 foreign TV channels, many of which are […]
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