KARACHI: The Pakistan People’s Party will not carry out any legislation against the fundamental rights of journalists and impose restrictions on the media, said the newly elected senators of the party on Wednesday. Senators-elect Mudasir Sehar Kamran, Saeed Ghani, Dr Karim Ahmed Khawaja and Mukhtar Ahmad Aajiz Dhamra visited the offices of the Karachi Union […]
TAKHTBHAI: Four compact disc (CD) shops were destroyed and 21 others were partially damaged in an explosion in the Khurshid Market on Wednesday, sources said. The sources said that an explosive device planted by unidentified persons in the Khurshid Market went off early in the day. Four shops selling music CDs were destroyed and 21 […]
QUETTA – Quetta Judicial Magistrate-III Muhammad Ibrahim Kakar has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Geo’s anchorperson and columnist Hamid Mir as well as the chairman of the group and editor-in-chief of daily Jung newspaper. The court issued Mir’s arrest warrant in a case filed by a senior lawyer of Balochistan, Khalid Khan. The petitioner […]
Pakistan’s military dictators made several attempts to control the media because their tolerance level was fairly low and they could not take criticism of their policies. The worst period was General Ayub Khan’s regime when he introduced the infamous Press and Publications Ordinance in early 1960s. The track record of some of the political governments […]
* PCP chairman says council developing code of conduct for media * Mechanism being evolved to oust corrupt elements from community By Manzoor Qadir ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) Chairman Raja Shafqat Khan Abbasi, while talking to Daily Times exclusively, said that infiltration of media by ‘fake’ journalists was resulting in ‘unethical practices’ and […]
ISLAMABAD: The government should take appropriate measures to ensure the security of journalists, particularly in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to make the slogan of freedom of expression true. Media persons in FATA are facing threat to their lives and honour and even their family members are not safe from militants as well as […]
GUJRANWALA: A CPO office clerk manhandled The News Gujranwala bureau chief Azam Butt for publishing a story about the alleged high-handedness of the police. On Wednesday night, Azam Butt was going to his home after filing stories when Sikandar, the CPO office clerk, stopped him at gunpoint on Bukhari Road, called him names, beat him […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Thursday brushed aside the impression that the government was planning to impose curbs on the media. She said the democratic government was committed to media freedom and making all out efforts to expand it. The government has the credit of lifting restrictions on the […]
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday sought replies from the federal government and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting by March 20 on a writ petition filed against possible curbs on the media. The petitioner, advocate Rana Ilmuddin Ghazi, stated that the media was exposing the government and now the government […]
Shamim Bano Karachi: Two central leaders of the Sindh National Front (SNF) have been acquitted of the charges of ransacking the offices of a Sindhi language newspaper in Clifton in the year 2009. The Judicial Magistrate South exonerated Deputy Secretary General SNF Anwar Gujjar and Coordinator Karachi Razak Bajwa from the case on Monday for […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has vowed to block in the Parliament anti-media measures the government is reportedly planning to introduce. “We didn’t allow the PPP government to enact the (toothless) accountability law and we won’t allow it to bring in any law for imposing restrictions on the media,” said PML-N central leader Muhammad Mehdi […]
KARACHI: Closely and continuously following in Musharraf’s footsteps, the Zardari-led Gilani NRO dispensation, besides getting ready to impose severe sanctions on media independence, is also all set to compel media channels to censor most popular parody and comedy shows like ‘Hum Sab Umeed say Hain’, ‘Khabarnaak’ and BNN. In an environment of extreme depression and […]
Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan media has been sandwiched between the military and militants and has gone into a phase of dead silence, reveals a report bringing into sharp focus the unattended agony of journalists in the troubled province. The report declares it ‘the most dangerous region of the most dangerous country for practising journalism’. […]
Army shows ire at the Human Rights Watch report which criticised the judicial commission’s findings on the murder of Saleem Shahzad By Amir Mir The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) continues to face the rage of national and international human rights and media groups. The Judicial Commission investigating the May 2011 assassination of a senior journalist, Syed […]
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