PESHAWAR: Chinese companies will help Pakistan Television Corporation to achieve the target of digitising of its telecast system by 2015, which is obligations of the international telecom body, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Thaimoor Azmat informed the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday. Giving details, he said PTV Administration contacted some Chinese companies […]
ISLAMABAD: The mega scam in purchasing equipment for the state-owned Pakistan Television echoed in the Public Accounts Committee Wednesday when a PPP lawmaker, Noor Alam Khan, claimed he could prove that $1.5 million were taken as commission for moving the file. During the PAC meeting Noor Alam Khan enquired from secretary information and broadcasting Taimoor […]
PTV once used to have a bulletin in English. It was widely watched, and the foreign and diplomatic community used to watch it to know news about Pakistan. I wonder why PTV has stopped it. The diplomatic community, foreign journalists and foreign visitors will watch it eagerly if PTV decides to resume an English bulletin […]
Rehan Ahmed, a producer/director at HUM Network Ltd has bagged the Best Documentary Short Award at the World Television Awards, organised every year by the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting. Rehan has an extensive portfolio producing documentaries, television serials and morning shows for the network. He was nominated and sponsored by the media conglomerate to […]
PAKISTANI politics has always been in turmoil. It has been subjected to critical views all round the globe by hundreds of television channels in every language. Every channel hosts many talk shows, not only in Urdu but in many other regional languages as well. Nevertheless this kind of politics has given a boost to talk […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has served show-cause notices to 17 TV channels for airing unedited live footage of blood, gore, dead and mutilated bodies amid a private plane crash. The authority has also issued notices to 24 entertainment TV channels on account of airing indecent, vulgar and unethical programmes, advertisements, shows, […]
Karachi: As violence continued in the city and families of the plane crash victims buried their loved ones, religious leaders on Sunday sat together to condemn what they called vulgarity in the Pakistani media. They held a grand Ulema convention at the Jamaat-e-Islami’s Idara-e Noor-e-Haq to condemn the “growing trend of obscenity”.Jamiat Ittehad-e-Ulema Pakistan (JIUP) […]
Karachi: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chief Muhammad Hussain Mehnati, during a press conference at the Idara-e-Noor-e-Haq on Thursday, stated that the JI has launched a campaign against “nudity and vulgarity” in the Pakistani media, and that a convention will be held on April 22 to develop a strategy in this regard. Mehnati announced that the campaign […]
Karachi: Jamaat-e Islami (JI) Karachi chief Muhammad Hussain Mehnati has expressed concern over the alleged spread of nudity and vulgarity in the Pakistani media, also asking the cable operators to stop airing Hindi films. In a statement issued here on Monday, Mehnati alleged that the Pakistani print and electronic Media had deliberately destroyed the image […]
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Saturday said doing politics and running the government was not an easy job in the presence of 100 TV channels. Talking to a delegation of PPP lawmakers and office-bearers at Dera Ghazi Khan airport, he said politics was not the job of light-hearted people in the current situation. He […]
CERTAIN local toothpaste brand is carrying out misleading TV and newspaper advertisements these days of its toothpaste with the slogan of ‘Dentist ko bhool jaiye; Mm-paste ko yaad rakhiye”. Such misleading ads target ignorant general public by giving the impression that the toothpaste is a replacement for a dentist or dental treatment. This is complete […]
LAHORE: “I love the Pakistanis from whom I have won so much admiration as an actor,” says famous film star Shabnam as the countdown to her much anticipated return to the city where she once lived and prospered begins. Shabnam and her well-known husband, music composer Robin Ghosh, will arrive in Lahore on April 27 […]
By Ghulam Hussain LAHORE: PTV is producing a classic 13-episode mega and musical drama serial ‘Heer Ranjha’, which will be the home production of PTV. Farhan Agha is the producer of this serial, who is working very hard over it. To make the serial a masterpiece, PTV has hired the services of seasoned and well-known […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government is taking measures to empower Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra). She said that there is a need to bring improvement in the Pemra so that the organisation could play its role effectively and independently. In […]
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