ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Action Plan against Impunity has been launched in Pakistan seeking support efforts to promote security and safety of journalists in the country. Pakistan is one of the five pilot countries of the UN Action Plan against Impunity. The UN plan was launched in a two-day international conference that concluded in Islamabad […]
By: Farooq Sulehria The post-modernist dictatorship over media scholarship 1980s onwards has banalised journalistic narratives. While important issues – for instance debate over media imperialism – have been trivialised, trifles have been assigned centrality in the media discourses. In recent years and months, we have seen the consequences of this banality. Kerfuffle over an anti-Islam […]
By: Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: Banned militant organisations, state’s security institutions and political parties were identified on Wednesday as key elements responsible for attacks on the media, as delegates framed problems to promote collaborative approaches to combating impunity on crimes against journalists during the inaugural day of international conference on safety and security of journalists in […]
By: Adil Shahzeb The brutal killing of the senior tribal journalist and president of the Miranshah Press Club, Malik Mumtaz, has once again highlighted the conditions that the brave tribal journalists have been working under at the cost of their lives. On February 27, unidentified men in a car in Miranshah, North Waziristan, intercepted Malik […]
By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday recommended ban on telecasting of foreign content by foreign television channels including dramas with Urdu dubbing during 7 pm to 11 pm to save the local artists and drama industry. Senate body also directed for rationalizing showing of foreign contents by 10% […]
By: Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: In little over two months this year, five confirmed journalists were killed in line of their duty – one in North Waziristan and four in Balochistan. Pakistan has been ranked the “most dangerous country” for journalists in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The impunity on crimes against journalists made the situation so […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira said Tuesday that Pakistan’s showbiz industry had great contribution and the government would take all possible steps to protect it. While speaking in the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting chaired by Senator Kamil Ali Agha, the minister said that unfortunately national film industry had […]
AS a spokesperson for the US State Department, Victoria Nuland has every right to speak on behalf of the US government and suggest that there are better and more cost-effective ways than implementing Pakistan-Iran pipeline project to meet Pakistan’s energy needs. However, since Pakistan is a sovereign and independent country and also a UN member, […]
QUETTA: All Balochistan Cable Operators Association on Sunday threatened to close down all news channels in Balochistan if the government did not provide them with security. Addressing a press conference here, President All Balochistan Cable Operators Association Babrak Khan said majority of cable operators in Balochistan were from poor families who were providing entertainment to […]
Javed Aziz Khan PESHAWAR: The cellular phone markets in the provincial capital have stopped selling memory cards with musical videos and songs while dozens of shops and cabins have closed down after threats by militants, a source told The News on Sunday. The management of the main phone markets in Peshawar Saddar and city have […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban have threatened to bomb a mobile phone market in Peshawar for the “shameless” selling of video clips, ring tones and accessories, officials said on Saturday. Some 60 shopkeepers received letters in the post ordering them to burn the offending stock, including memory cards and speakers for MP3 players, and stick to selling […]
By: Bari Baloch QUETTA – Cable Operators’ Association President Babrak Khan said on Sunday cable service had been suspended in 14 districts of Balochistan after receiving threats from armed groups and security forces. Babrak told a press conference here that 80 per cent people affiliated with cable business belonged to poor families and had been […]
PESHAWAR/SWABI: Journalists in Peshawar held a protest demonstration against the murder of Qalat Press Club president Mehmood Afridi and demanded of the government to arrest the accused involved in the case. While speaking on the occasion office-bearers of Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ), Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemned […]
Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: Armed gunmen killed senior journalist Mehmood Jan Afridi in Kalat town of Balochistan on Friday evening. Deputy Commissioner Kalat, Bashir Ahmed Bazai said gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at Mehmood Jan Afridi in Bus Addah area of Kalat. He said the assailants managed to escape from the spot. Police and […]
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