KARACHI: Appreciating the role of the print media in creating awareness about human rights in the country, speakers at an Arts Council seminar on Friday criticized successive governments in Pakistan for keeping the electronic media under strict control. The seminar, titled “Human rights and the role of the media”, was organized by the press and […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd is actively considering to introduce new technology, which may further reduce the bandwidth rates in order to popularise Information Technology in Pakistan. This was disclosed by Nooruddin Baqai, Member Business Development, PTCL. The Internet Service Providers would benefit from this new product, he added. He said that as per directive […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) will not be able to issue even a single licence for private television channel due to non-completion of procedural formalities before the next civilian government is in place, it is reliably learnt. The PEMRA will require at least four months to complete the formalities, procedural and others, […]
ISLAMABAD : The Election Commission on Thursday issued code of conduct for electronic media and directed the Pakistan Television Corporation and Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation to observe it in letter and spirit. A meeting of the Election Commission was held here. Former Chief Justice Irshad Hassan Khan, Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan presided over the meeting. […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has earned a net profit of over Rs 19 billion during fiscal year 2001-02 as against Rs 18 billion profit last yearn In an interview with APP here Wednesday, Chairman PTCL, Akhtar A. Bajwa said the total gross revenue of PTCL is about Rs 67 billion with the pre-tax […]
Islamabad: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Perma) has cancelled the licenses of five cable operators for showing banned channels. The operators whose licenses have been cancelled include. The operators whose licenses have been cancelled include: Shabana Cable Network, Sheikupur; Sabah Cable Network, Lahore; Marhaba Entertainment Cable Network, Karachi; Welkan Cable Network, Islamabad and Danish […]
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has started formulating a Code of Conduct for the state-controlled electronic media under which every political party would be given share in time to reach to the public. EC sources told Dawn that the details of the code would be unveiled after the lifting of ban on political activities. […]
KARACHI : The South Asian Media Wise has denied allegations of illegal voiceover Internet protocol termination. In a press release issued on Wednesday, SAMW said a team of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Pakistan Telecommunication Company officials was handed over access to the servers. The team members looked at the configuration and the SAMW […]
ISLAMABAD- Non-Pakistanis and Pakistanis who own a newspaper or magazine or run a radio, television or cable network or an advertising agency will not be given a license to run a private television, radio or cable channel. To run a private television or radio channel, the eligible operator will not only have to obtain a […]
KARACHI- Pakistan Television plans to launch a separate news and current affairs channel, PTV World, that will operate independently and telecast newsworthy items, said Federal Minister of Information Nisar A. Memon. He said from July 24 PTV World, which was watched in around 40 countries, would have a separate news bulletin daily at 10pm. PTV […]
PESHAWAR- Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) is mulling to expand the cable network on modern lines, said chairman of the PEMRA, Mian Javed. He was addressing a meeting of members of the Frontier Cable Network Association here. He said the authority would give due considerations to the views of the cable network owners and […]
KARACHI- The PTV 11th Regional Award of Karachi Centre for 2002 would be held on July 20 at Bahria Auditorium, says a Press release. Pakistan Television Corporation Karachi has announced names of the programmes and those of producers which are nominated according to the adopted criteria of the PTV as followed in the past. Nominations […]
KARACHI- The Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Prof Dr Atta-ur-Rehman, has said that human resource is more vital than the natural resources for the progress of any country. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of The City-Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT), he emphasised that in order to develop human resource, education should be […]
HYDERABAD- The Cable Operators Association announced that the cable operators would not operate any channel which could prove harmful to the integrity of the nation or adversely affect moral values. A spokesman for the Association, in a statement thanked the Sindh Governor, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Assistant Inspector General (AIG), District Police Officer (DPO), […]
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