YouTube watchers in Pakistan have now had to endure 100 days in solitude. The video-streaming website, for some unfathomable reason, still remains banned in the country. The original excuse for the ban — that the website was hosting an anti-Islam video — can no longer be the justification given that few even remember anything about […]
By: Muhammad Ali RELIGION is viewed as divine inspiration and as guidance for the salvation of human beings. When the divine message, which reveals itself through allegorical and symbolic language, is understood and practised by people in different contexts with different focuses, the understanding appears in the form of multiple interpretations. Hence, in the presence […]
QUETTA: A fact-finding commission constituted by the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) on the problems being faced by the journalists in Balochistan will submit in two months its report about mediapersons’ deaths in incidents of target killing, harassment and payment of compensation. “The commission on the problems faced by journalists of Balochistan will be headed […]
By: Feisal H Naqvi About a week ago, a 20-year-old by the name of Adam Lanza walked into a school in Newtown, Connecticut — a small town a few hours northeast of New York City. In the next 30 minutes, Lanza shot and killed 27 people before finally killing himself. Of those 27 casualties, 20 […]
KARACHI: The President and Secretary General of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Jamil Ather Qazi and Aamer Mahmood respectively have expressed their deep sorrow and grief over the sad demise of MA Majeed, veteran journalist and former Editor (Editorial Page) of Daily Dawn. In a condolence message issued here today they said that journalism […]
The draft, approved in the council meeting, would be sent to all newspapers, news agencies, Election Commission of Pakistan, APNS, CPNE, PFUJ, RIJU, press clubs, media houses, stakeholders and the civil society. The meeting of the council was held under the Chairmanship of Raja Shafqat Abbasi. The members who attended the meeting included Nasir Zaidi […]
CHARSADDA: Unidentified persons blew up two compact disc (CD) shops and damaged 26 others in a local market in Sardheri town, police sources said on Thursday. The sources said the explosive device planted by unidentified persons at the CD shops selling music tapes in Mir Alam Market exploded at night. Two shops were destroyed while […]
By: Saleem Shahid QUETTA: A local journalist and two other people were shot dead in Bolan district late on Thursday night. Levies sources said a group of armed men intercepted a bus coming from Quetta on its way to Punjab on Quetta-Sukkur highway in the Machh area of Bolan district and kidnapped six passengers. The […]
PARIS: Syria, Somalia remains most dangerous countries for journalists, Pakistan on third position with 10 journalists killed this year. More journalists were killed doing their job in 2012 than in any year since monitoring started 17 years ago, with Syria and Somalia seeing a particularly heavy toll, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday. Eighty-eight […]
By: Masood Haider and Anwar Iqbal NEW YORK / WASHINGTON: At least 67 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to their work by mid-December, a 42 per cent increase over 2011, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday. The report said combat-related deaths in Syria and targeted murders in […]
ISLAMABAD: The Press Council of Pakistan has welcomed the reopening of Khuzdar Press Club after two-and-a-half months of closure due to security of working journalists. In the face of worsening law and order situation, the PCP has already taken serious note of the safety and security for journalists of Balochistan and has constituted a three-member […]
LAHORE: Might is right and the new might in the country is land mafia which is grabbing the land of innocent people at a fast pace right under the nose of government. As nothing has been done to stamp out land mafia, land grabbers are now targeting oversees Pakistanis. Although there are numerous cases in […]
NOWSHERA: Two compact disc (CD) shops were blown up in separate explosions here on Sunday, the police sources said. The sources said the explosive devices planted by unidentified persons at the CD shops in Cantonment Area went off and destroyed the shops selling the music tapes. The police reached the spot and collected pieces of […]
By: A.G Noorani “A RESPONSIBLE press is an undoubtedly desirable goal; but press responsibility is not mandated by the constitution, and like many other virtues, it cannot be legislated,” Chief Justice Warren Burger of the US Supreme Court ruled on behalf of a unanimous court in June 1974. In the nearly four decades that have […]
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