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Pakistan fear TV blackout in court dispute

KARACHI – A dispute over television rights could affect coverage of Pakistan’s forthcoming tri-series and Test matches against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, cricket officials fear. Dubai-based television channels Ten sports and ARY, who both secured broadcasting rights for Pakistan cricket last year at a cost of $43 million until 2008, are embroiled in a dispute. […]


Govt order of newsman’s arrest set aside

LAHORE – The orders of the Punjab government to detain Sarwar Mujahid, a journalist from Okara for three months, were reserved by Lahore High Court on September 22. His brother Muhammad Anwar challenged the detention order through a writ petition saying that the journalist was detained for his correct and objective reporting on the incidents […]


Information Ministry to get ready for challenges

ISLAMABAD – Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the Ministry of Information should get well prepared to face the challenges ahead. “The ministry should make all preparations for the challenges ahead in the different sector,” Rashid said while addressing a reception hosted in the honour of information minister and Minister of State […]


Licences to 12 new TV channels soon

ISLAMABAD – General Manager, Enforcement, Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (Pemra), Colonel Mansoor Rasheed (Retd) said on Saturday that the government will soon award 12 new licences for opening of TV channels. Speaking in PTV programme “News Morning,” he said the process of awarding licence to 22 new channels is in pipeline, which hopefully […]


SBTE announces six-month course

KARACHI – The Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE) has announced introduction of six-month specialised certificate course on Cyber Security. The course developed by Centre for Curriculum and Development of the board, is aimed at creating awareness and trained human resources to tackle the threats of cyber crime, keeping in view massive development in IT […]


Geo producer issued contempt notice

LAHORE – A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued notice to Masooma Taqi, producer of private Cable TV channel Geo, and directed her to explain on September 27 why she should not be punished for committing contempt of court. Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry had directed the division bench of Justices […]


RSF protests statement by army spokesman

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) today urged President Pervez Musharraf to get the armed forces spokesman (ISPR), Gen. Shaukat Sultan, to withdraw comments in which ­ in an attempt to defend the army’s tough restrictions on journalists in the northwestern Tribal Areas ­ he accused the Pakistani press of ‘selling the national interest in […]


IT deregulation brings massive investment: Awais

LAHORE – The Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has said telecom sector in Pakistan has gone through a tremendous growth over the last four years with a massive investment coming in the sector in the wake of the deregulation of the telecom sector. He said this prior to his departure to […]


Parents’ awareness of media emphasized

KARACHI – Parents should be media-literate to develop healthy personality of children. Media awareness is imperative for parents to distinguish what is suitable to allow the children to see on media and what can produce negative impact on their personality. This observation was made by speakers at a seminar on ‘Media Impacts on Children and […]


Private TV channels pushing new boundaries

ISLAMABAD – The scars around her eyes were visible even before the young Pakistani woman lifted her veil, showing television viewers the burns she suffered when her husband doused her with kerosene and set her on fire. Such a spectacle until recently would have been too shocking for Pakistani television. But two private cable-television charmels, […]


Musharraf finds TV spokespersons weak

ISLAMABAD – President General Pervez Musharraf’s discontent with the quality of government representation in electronic media, particularly private TV channels, has made his secretariat direct the prime minister’s secretariat to work with the ministry of information and broadcasting to streamline the procedures for selecting government spokespersons. Sources told Daily Times that the president’s secretariat (public) […]


Radio Wana repaired

PESHAWAR – The recently damaged radio station of Wana has been repaired and transmission has been restored in the South Waziristan Agency, informed an official of Political Administration. The transmission of Radio Wana was disrupted when some unknown terrorists destroyed most of the radio station with explosive material a few days ago. Programmes of three […]


Symposium on media rights & responsibilities

KARACHI – Citizens’ role and active participation in the national media is the weakest in Pakistan. There remains a vital need to empower the average citizen, as society becomes media-centric at breakneck speed with effective means independent of the interests of the government and the media, so as to promote fairness and balance. Policymaking and […]


TV channels to be used for educating children

KARACHI – Sindh Education Minister Dr Hamida Khoro on July 24 said education department has decided to use electronic media, especially TV channels for educating children in the province and for this purpose, educational programs will be purchased from other countries and broadcast after translating them into local languages. Speaking at inauguration ceremony of a […]