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 […]
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 […]
SWABI – The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has started collecting TV license fee through the electricity bills from June, instead of July. A number of electricity consumers told Dawn in Swabi that in the bills of June all those who consumed more than 100 units were charged Rs25 as TV license fee. Source: […]
KARACHI – Two more educational television channels will become functional on Paksat-1 by the end of December, said the federal minister in-charge for Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr Atta-ur-Rehman, on July 14. Addressing a press conference at the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, Dr Atta-ur-Rehman, also chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), said […]
KARACHI – The Sindh government’s adviser on information, Salahuddin Haider has urged the Pakistani media to prepare itself for successfully meeting the challenges it faces today. He was speaking as chief quest at a seminar on ‘Impact of Cable Culture on Our Media’, held in Karachi on July 12 under the auspices of the Press […]
ISLAMABAD — The government on July 12 assured the Senate as well as journalists that it would act sternly against Environment Ministry Deputy Secretary Asif Rehman for beating Saima Zahoor, a journalist, at his office. Federal Communication Minister Babar Khan Ghauri and State Minister for Law and Justice Raza Hayat Hiraj assured the house that […]
ISLAMABAD – The government has decided to issue 22 TV channel licences falling in the category of cross media (those own more than one category of media) after passing an amendment in PEMRA Ordinance to be tabled in the coming session of National Assembly for this purpose. The other media category includes a radio, a […]
DUBAI – Dubai-based television network ARY Digital has announced its plans to broadcast the coveted Asia Cup 2004 to be held in Sri Lanka commencing from July 16, 2004 to August 2004. The tournament, being played after four years gap, will also feature a much-anticipated rematch between India and Pakistan after the historical series played […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, Sindh, received around 100 complaints from all over the province against poor and faulty Cable TV service during the month of June last. The details about these complaints were placed at the monthly meeting of Council of Complaints (CoC) of PEMRA held here at its regional office. […]
PESHAWAR – AVT Khyber, Pakistan’s first Pushto satellite television channel, started its test transmission on Thursday. According to an AVT Khyber’s press release issued by its local bureau, Information Secretary Syed Anwar Mahmood was the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony. PTV Managing Director Arshad Khan, who was present on the occasion, expressed delight at […]
PESHAWAR – Local artistes have criticized the ban on their entry to the PTV Peshawar Centre and have asked the authorities to lift the ban forthwith. Talking to Dawn, several senior artistes, said that the PTV administration had banned their entry to the centre, which had hit them hard. “Many of the artistes, who are […]
LAHORE — The Pakistan Television Corporation on June 29 claimed that the Water and Power Development Authority (wapda) would start collecting TV lisence fee from July 1. In press statement, PTV claimed that from now onwards no one would come to the consumers’ houses for the collection of fee. Every consumer consuming more than 100 […]
GUJRANWALA – The local chamber of commerce and industry and other segments of society have criticized the proposed collection of TV license fee worth Rs25 per month through electricity bills. Speaking at a meeting held here on June 17, presided over by chamber’s president Shaukat Javed, the participants were of the view that the process […]
ISLAMABAD – Film industry would now be able to import items specified by the government with duty concession. Latest explanations on budget made by CBR to tax authorities indicate this industry is now subject to concession to compete foreign filmmakers, especially Bollywood. Duty exemption would now be available to parcel senders through airfreight up to […]
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