LAHORE – About 250 Pakistani entrepreneurs are expected to attend Print and Media Show, Drupa 2004, to be held in Duesselfdorf, Germany, from May 6 — 19, 2004. According to a spokesman of Liaison Office for Messe Duesseldorf GmbH in Pakistan, “as an industry trend-setter Drupa presents a detailed insight into future developments in technology.” […]
LAHORE – The Pakistan film industry has threatened a countrywide indefinite strike from May 6 if the government does not accept its demands. In a five-point charter of demands presented on April 27, it asked the government to explain its policy on the exchange of feature films between Pakistan and India, an issue which has […]
KARACHI – The 16th meeting of the council of complaints, PEMRA, Sindh region, in Karachi on April 24 highlighted issues regarding complaints and rectification of complaints against Cable TV Operators. The meeting, presided over by the City Naib Nazim Tariq Hassan, advised the cable operators to maintain quality services and ensure instant rectification of complaints […]
VIENTIANE, Laos : April 23 (PNS) – Pakistan and Laos Thursday agreed to exchange radio/television programmes and personnel to encourage greater media interaction. The decisions came at a meeting between Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed with his Lao counterpart Phanhduangchith Vongsa here at the Ministry of Information. Sheikh Rashid informed his counterpart about the significant […]
By Hassan Javed LAHORE – The Federal Government is considering to import 300 classic movies from India, which were being exhibited in various cities in this part of subcontinent before Pakistan creation. Those movies, including Dalip Kumar’s hit Hum Raz and Dagh continued to be exhibited in Pakistan till early 1960’s. As good prints of […]
ISLAMABAD – Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on April 21 said more TV channels were being allowed to provide better entertainment facilities to the people. This is the era of competition and everybody has the right to compete and excel, he told Geo TV. Two or three new channels are coming soon, […]
PESHAWAR – NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on April 19 ordered the completion of the installation of television boosters in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) at the earliest and stressed the need for bringing entire NWFP and Fata in the reach of PTV telecast. Speaking at a briefing on the performance of the […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the government has taken a policy decision that print media may be allowed to operate electronic media in the country. The information minister in a statement said the government is going to make necessary amendments in the PEMRA Ordinance, 2002 in the next session […]
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has asked the Pakistan Broadcasting corporation to set up over 20 FM stations in different areas of the country at the earliest to provide people with quality programmes and information. He gave this directive during a presentation on the performance and future programmes of the […]
ISLAMABAD: Information minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on April 10, formally launched seven new TV rebroadcast stations under the Shalimar Television Network (STN). The event also marked the upgradation of 12 existing STN transmitting stations. Speaking briefly on the occasion the information minister said, with the expansion of the network, the electronic media would become a […]
MULTAN: The South African cameraman who was accused of trying to molest a female receptionist of a local hotel has been deported immediately on the instructions of the local administration. A Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) spokesman confirmed that the cameraman would be flying down to Dubai and from there to his home in South Africa. […]
QUETTA: A meeting of the Council of Complaints (CoCs) PEMRA held March 26, warned cable television operators of Balochistan not to originate local channels and broadcast the banned channels through their network otherwise strict action would take against them. The meeting chaired by CoCs Commissioner Faqir Mohammad Baloch also directed regional office of Pemra to […]
LAHORE: Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Shilpa Shetty have said the peace process between Pakistan and India will get a boost with the launching of co-productions between the two countries. Speaking at a news conference at the Royal Palm Golf and Country Club on March 26, Mr. Kumar said some co-productions were being discussed with […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and India are likely to move towards joint ventures in cinema and television sector after the successful cricket diplomacy as a part of the Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) to facilitate the resolution of bilateral issues, well-placed sources told The Nation March 22. The two nuclear South Asian states are currently engaged in […]
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