LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has been moved against the act of not giving any coverage on the state-run TV to Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. Waqar Ahmad Chaudhry in a petition has adopted the stance that the state-run TV is not giving any coverage to the […]
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) enforcement team raided an illegal FM radio station being run by the National Highways Authority (NHA) in violation of PEMRA Laws in Peshawar on Wednesday. The illegal radio station was operating from the Islamabad — Peshawar Motorway (M-1) by the NHA. The PEMRA enforcement team impounded all […]
Javed Aziz Khan PESHAWAR: A senior tribal journalist, Nasrullah Khan Afridi was killed in a bomb explosion in a targeted attack at Khyber Super Market here Tuesday night. Eyewitnesses said Nasrullah had just boarded his car after returning from a shop near Lala Hotel in Khyber Super Market after faxing news to his media organisation […]
Nasrullah Khan Afridi, 38, correspondent of state-run Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), English Daily “Statesman” and Urdu Daily “Mashriq” in Khyber tribal agency, was killed when an explosive device ripped through his vehicle on the night May 10, 2011 in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan. The explosion took place […]
ACTION after the event is a comical trait that has long been the hallmark of many sections of Pakistani officialdom. By all accounts, our security establishment was ostensibly in the dark about the presence of Osama bin Laden in a garrison town no less, as well as last week`s American raid that killed the Al […]
The question how much freedom the media should have by itself is a sufficient indicator that it has assumed a disturbing particularity for society and state. What are those harmful aspects? To know them one has to look at the spectrum of the people running the Pakistani media. Our information environment is being run by […]
LAHORE: “Newspapers owners should not interfere in the editorial work and reporting in their paper. Unfortunately, there are no professional editors in the media,” Khushnood Ali Khan, the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) president, said on Monday. Khan was addressing a seminar titled State, Media and Freedom, organised by the CPNE at the South […]
On May 6, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) issued notices to nine foreign channels for illegal up-linking of live news coverage and asking them to explain their position on airing news from Abbottabad, without lawful authority. Abbottabad, a city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has been a focal point for global and local broadcasters […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has barred all major foreign television channels from making live broadcasts from Abbottabad five days after US commandos killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden there, reflecting the governmentÂ’s unease over the coverage of perceived failures of its agencies. The Pemra issued a restraining order in a statement […]
By Ahmed Jung KARACHI: Up to 25 men from the Crime Investigation Department (CID) police attacked a reporter and cameraman from Express News who went to cover a raid in Ferozabad early Thursday morning. Reporter Wasiq Mohammad was tipped off that the CID police would be conducting an operation to make arrests of criminals who […]
Karachi: President Karachi Press Club (KPC) Tahir Hasan Khan and Secretary Moosa Kaleem have condemned in the most unambiguous of terms the armed attack on the staff and members of the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday evening and have asked the government of Sindh to take immediate action against the perpetrators. They said that it […]
QUETTA- A journalist, was wounded in an incident of firing in Turbat, Balochistan on Sunday. According to sources, private TV reporter Jahangir Aslam and Directorate of Public Relation Balochistan Sector Incharge Abdul Wahid Baloch were heading towards their residence from Press Club in Turbat when gunmen opened in-discriminate firing on them, injuring them critically. They […]
Authorities recover two bullet-riddled bodies in Jaki area. QUETTA: The bodies of two more Baloch missing persons were recovered on Thursday morning from the Coastal Highway in Jaki area, about 60 kilometres from Ormara town. One of the deceased was a human rights activist and a member of the Baloch Students Organisaton-Azad. According to assistant […]
By Munawer Azeem and Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: The premises of the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) in the capital witnessed high drama on Wednesday as its zealous security team took on the officials of Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) and journalists. Scuffles, fights and allegations and counter-allegations were the order of the afternoon — at […]
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